K-NOW! Korean Video Art Today

The Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) opens its 2026 season with K-NOW! Korean Video Art Today. The exhibition offers a focused look at South Korea’s contemporary art scene through the lens of video art—a medium deeply intertwined with the country’s history and social fabric. The project aims to highlight the originality of an artistic production that, while rooted in a relatively contained geographical context, has in recent years emerged as one of the most dynamic and internationally acclaimed.

Set within an immersive display in the underground gallery of the LAC, the exhibition presents eight perspectives by a new generation of artists and collectives who have grown up in the shadow of an unresolved war and amid the rapid transformations of Korean society: Chan-kyong Park, Jane Jin Kaisen, Ayoung Kim, 업체eobchae, Sungsil Ryu, Heecheon Kim, Onejoon Che, and Sojung Jun.

While grounded in the history and lived reality of their country, the works address some of the key cultural, historical, and existential questions shaping the Zeitgeist of our globalized present—from the relationship between technology and the body to that between history, memory, and tradition, and from migration to an increasingly performance-driven and accelerated world of work.