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In 2026, a retrospective exhibition titled "Yoo Young-guk: The Mountains Reside Within Me" will showcase the works of this prominent figure in modern Korean art. · 2026 · Historical listing

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Dates
May 19, 2026 — Oct 25, 2026
Place
Seoul Museum of Art 61 Deoksugung-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul Seoul Museum of Art, Seosomun Main Building
Admission at the time
Free
Facts last checked
2026-10-22
First preserved here
2026-10-19

Published programme

Seoul Museum of Art joins the Yoo Youngkuk Art Foundation and Chosun Ilbo to mark the 110th anniversary of Korean abstract-art pioneer Yoo Youngkuk (1916–2002) with his largest retrospective, Yoo Youngkuk: The Mountain Is Within Me. Around 170 paintings, reliefs, photographs, drawings and archive items, including previously unseen works, offer a comprehensive view. As the 1st project in the museum's new Korean Modern Masters series, it reconnects modern Korean art's achievements with today. Its initial artist pursued avant-garde abstraction unwaveringly in life and work through Japanese colonial rule, the Korean War, democratization and compressed economic growth. The exhibition spans roughly 60 years, from experiments begun at Tokyo's Bunka Gakuin in 1935 to later mental abstraction. Departing from a conventional retrospective, it proposes a time journey moving backward and forward from the pivotal year 1964, making his decisions, immersion and rhythms of sublimity and infinity engaging. This reveals more dimensions of an art that abstracted mountains with points, lines, planes and color. Repeated mountains are actual Uljin landscapes, the totality of memory and an inner structure balanced through line and color. For him, the mountain was more than an external object to represent: it was a formal essence within the mind.

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