Centre Pompidou Hanwha is scheduled to open to the public on 4 June in Seoul. The museum operates as a four-year partnership between the Hanwha Foundation of Culture and Centre Pompidou, with two exhibitions per year touring from the Pompidou collection to South Korea. The inaugural exhibition is The Cubists: Inventing Modern Vision, running until 4 October. The museum occupies 11,000 sq. m across four floors in Hanwha Group’s headquarters building. One main hall presents early 20th-century European art from the Pompidou collection, while the other presents global contemporary art with a 21st-century Korean focus curated in-house. The inaugural Korea Focus section connects Western Cubism with Korean artists such as Kim Whanki and Yoo Youngkuk.
"Centre Pompidou Hanwha will operate as a four-year partnership between the Hanwha Foundation of Culture and the Centre Pompidou. Two exhibitions per year from the Centre Pompidou's collection will tour to South Korea, starting with The Cubists: Inventing Modern Vision (until 4 October)."
"“spirit of interdisciplinarity and contemporaneity strongly aligns with the Hanwha Foundation of Culture's mission, since 2007, to support emerging artists and connect Korean culture with the world,” a spokesperson for the foundation tells The Art Newspaper. They add that the collaboration is “not intended as a one-way introduction of Western art, but as a reciprocal exchange in which Korean and Asian art can generate new interpretations and questions within global art discourse.”"
"The new museum, which French President Emmanuel Macron toured on 3 April, occupies 11,000 sq. m over four floors of the Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group's headquarters, 63 Building-Korea's highest building until 2003. Of the two main exhibition halls, each around 1,600 sq. m, one gallery will present early 20th-century European art from the Centre Pompidou collection, the Hanwha Foundation spokesperson says. The other will exhibit global contemporary art with a 21st-century Korean focus, curated in-house."
"The show's 90-plus works by 40 artists will explore the full Cubist movement “as a collective experiment shaped by a wider artistic community responding to rapid social and cultural change,” the spokesperson says. It aims to provide atte"
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