Along with various collections and special exhibitions, one of the Daejeon Museum of Art’s special exhibitions this year will restore and reproduce an important exhibition in Korean art history.

From March 3 to April 17, the collection exhibition Going Green (working title) will showcase the works of eleven artists born between the late 1930s and the 1960s. The participating artists have continuously been experimenting with and exploring the canvas. Out of 1,357 art collections, the exhibition has selected twelve paintings and photography works that depict landscapes.

Sculpture, Space Puzzle (working title), a contemporary art exhibition, is scheduled to take place from March 3 to May 7, 2023. The exhibition will shed new light on sculpture and three-dimensional works by mid-career artists from the Daejeon area. The show will explore the spatial aesthetics of sculptural works, their physical properties, and the unique characteristics of Daejeon art.

An exhibition highlighting the museum’s eight media art collections, entitled Pioneers: DMA Media Art Collections (working title), will be held from April 19 through September. Through the works of the three most representative media artists based in Korea—Park Hyunki (1942–2000), Yook Tae-jin (1961–2000), and Kim Haemin (1957)—the exhibition will elaborate on the history and development of new media art in Daejeon and the aesthetics caused by new technological media.

Next Code 2023, an exhibition program introducing the works of young artists, will be held from June 27 to September 10, 2023. The exhibition program aims to discover young artists under the age of 39 who are continuing their creative activities based in the Daejeon and Chungcheong areas. The program started in 1999 and has supported over 140 young artists for 24 years.

One of the museum’s largest exhibitions is scheduled to be held from September 26, 2023 to January 14, 2024. The museum will open the 30th Anniversary of Daejeon Expo: Future Lies Ahead (working title). In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Expo 93, the exhibition Future Lies Ahead, which was co-organized by Pontus Hultén and Lim Se-taek in 1993, will be reproduced indoors and outdoors at the museum.

From October 24, 2023 to March 31, 2024, the Open Storage Permanent Exhibition II, which will exchange the exhibited collections twice a year, will be held to increase the public understanding of contemporary art.

In addition, in August, the works of the special prize winners of the 20th Lee Donghoon Art Award (Special Award) will be showcased at the museum, and the final winner’s solo exhibition will be presented in October.

References

• 대전시립미술관 (Daejeon Museum of Art, DMA)