서울시립미술관 SEOUL MUSEUM OF ART

SeMA Blue, having its third edition this year, is part of the Three Color series which is held biannually aiming at the balanced growth of Korean art scene and each of its generation. 2016 SeMA Blue Seoul Babel focuses on art platforms that are being created around Seoul spontaneously and their creative practices. The exhibition was conceived to shed light on the practices and approaches of these alternative communities as a phenomenon in which they either run independent spaces in between the niches at the outskirt of the city or lead ephemeral collaborative projects.

70 artists from 15 artist-or-curator based exhibition platforms in the show include artists that present various forms of practices, from groups that showcase their works based on a physical space, collectives devoted to temporary and fragmented collaborations based on online or SNS to small design studios that are recently on the rise.

Seoul Babel is the symbol of the young and experimental movements made by these art platforms in the city which let us recognize the existence of differences, using their own individual language. By supporting these independent and organic moves of the curators and artists which are the real capillaries of the growth of art, Seoul Museum of Art will be highlighting its social role, network and publicness as an art institution and take the lead in expanding the foundation of art.