As Seoul Art Week returns this September, the city is making a convincing case for looking beyond the fair aisles. Frieze Seoul and Kiaf remain the anchors, but some of the week’s strongest moments can be found elsewhere: inside a newly opened museum, across career-spanning surveys and in gallery exhibitions that reward a closer look. Here are four stops worth building your Seoul itinerary around.
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Inside Other Spaces: Environments by Women Artists 1956-1976 at Leeum Museum of Art
Until 29 November 2026
Leeum revisits a radical chapter of postwar art through immersive environments created by women artists between 1956 and 1976. Rather than treating sculpture as something to stand back and observe, these artists transformed entire rooms into sensorial, participatory spaces involving light, colour, sound and movement. The exhibition brings together practices that were frequently overlooked within established histories of installation art, and gives them the space they always deserved.
On your way out, take a walk through Gabriel Orozco’s newly designed garden, which unfolds around curved pathways and circular planted spaces.
The Cubists: Inventing Modern Vision at Centre Pompidou Hanwha
Until 4 October 2026
Seoul’s newest major museum opens with an ambitious exhibition on cubism, featuring approximately 90 works by more than 40 artists from the Centre Pompidou collection. Picasso, Braque, Léger and Delaunay trace the movement’s rupture with conventional ways of seeing, while a dedicated Korea Focus section explores how Cubism shaped Korean visual art, photography, literature and dance. It is a smart opening statement for the new four-storey institution, set inside a luminous Jean-Michel Wilmotte-designed space beside the landmark 63 Building.
Park Seo-Bo: Changing Unchanging at Kukje Gallery
24 August - 18 October 2026
Three years after Park Seo-Bo’s death, Kukje Gallery brings his work back to Seoul across its K1, K3 and Hanok spaces. A central figure in Dansaekhwa, Park spent decades testing what could happen when painting became an act of repetition: lines drawn, surfaces worked and gestures performed until the boundary between image and process began to disappear. The title borrows from the artist’s own paradoxical belief that both changing and refusing to change carry their own risks.
Also showing in Kukje’s K2 space is Seeun Kim’s Pictos and Pitwall, on view over the same dates.
Marina Rheingantz: Míope at White Cube Seoul
1 September - 24 October 2026
Brazilian artist Marina Rehingantz makes her Korean solo debut with new paintings and textile works created in São Paulo. Meaning “nearsighted”, Míope shifts restlessly between aerial landscapes, microscopic details and forms that seem to dissolve as soon as the eye begins to recognise them. Memories of Brazil’s natural environment sit alongside references to frescoes, ancient artefacts and the intimate interiors of Édouard Vuillard. Visit during Cheongdam Night on 2 September, when the gallery remains open until 10pm.
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