Posco Museum of Art to reunite visitors with Nam June Paik works at Frieze Seoul

Posco Museum of Art is bringing together works by seven Korean artists in their 30s and 40s to coincide with the opening of Frieze Seoul and Kiaf Seoul, which draw global art world attention to the city each fall. A performance marking the restoration of Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota's work "Cheori Cheolcheol" will be held on opening night.

The museum announced Tuesday that it will hold the special exhibition "Prism, Rippling Infinity" at Posco Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, from Wednesday through Nov. 15.

This year's Frieze Seoul runs Wednesday through Saturday at COEX in Seoul alongside Kiaf Seoul, with more than 125 galleries from 30 countries taking part in the fifth edition of the fair. Kiaf Seoul continues through Sunday.

The museum designed the exhibition with domestic and international art visitors in mind, focusing on younger voices in Korean contemporary art. The show explores how everyday scenes and experiences, filtered through an artist's perspective, expand into diverse works — much as light splits into many colors when passed through a prism.

The seven participating artists are Kim Yong-gwan, Kim Jin-hee, Song Ju-hyung, Shin Jun-min, Yun I-do, Jin Jong-hwan and Han Nat.

Kim Yong-gwan treats the glass exterior wall of Posco Center as a single canvas to capture the movement of light and clouds. Kim Jin-hee focuses on fleeting moments of light encountered in daily life, while Song Ju-hyung combines video and sound to create spaces where sight and hearing work together.

Shin Jun-min renders landscapes where memory and reality overlap. Yun I-do uses toothpicks to scratch away at dark surfaces, expressing stories of disappearing spaces. Jin Jong-hwan translates shifts in nature and the temperature of air into color, and Han Nat captures the movement of pouring sunlight in photographs.

On opening night Wednesday, a performance will be held to mark the restoration of "Cheori Cheolcheol," a work by Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota held in the Posco Group collection.

Created in 1995, "Cheori Cheolcheol" combines steel — a symbol of Posco — with Paik's signature media art. The restoration was completed this year to mark the 20th anniversary of Paik's death. Electronic music artist Ppureuka and media artist Song Ju-hyung, one of the exhibition's participating artists, will perform together, layering light and video over the sounds produced by steel.

Programming will extend beyond the gallery walls. In connection with "Cheongdam Night," a late-night cultural program running across the Gangnam area during Frieze week, the museum will stay open until 9 p.m. on opening night Wednesday, later than its usual hours.

A docent volunteer team made up of Posco Group employees will also be on hand to guide visitors through the works and the museum's key holdings.

Admission is free. The museum is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; until 8 p.m. on Tuesday; and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. It will be closed during the chuseok holiday from Sept. 24 to 27, as well as on Oct. 5 and Oct. 9.

The museum is also expanding the reach of its earlier exhibition "A World in One Page: 100 Years of Picture Books," which ran through last July. A touring version is on view in Gwangyang through Saturday, and the show will travel to Posco Gallery in Pohang from Oct. 15 through Nov. 22.