We are pleased to share that Jae-Eun Choi’s solo exhibition, Where Beings Be, will be presented at the Seoul Museum of Art from December 23, 2025, to April 5, 2026.
Aligned with the museum’s 2025 themes, Action and Planet, the exhibition invites viewers to reconsider our relationships with the world beyond anthropocentric perspectives—an increasingly urgent question in the age of climate crisis. This approach closely resonates with Choi’s artistic practice, which has explored life, time, and cycles since the 1980s. Her early experiences at the Sogetsu Art Center in Tokyo during the 1970s shaped her understanding of nature as a continuous process of emergence and transformation, a worldview that has remained central to her work. Rather than proposing a new manifesto, Where Beings Be reflects on the interconnectedness of beings that have long coexisted and gently asks what it means to live together.
The exhibition brings together a wide range of works that define Choi’s artistic universe, including Lucy, a monumental sculpture symbolizing the origins of humankind; works addressing the urgency of today’s ecological crisis; pieces that reveal invisible layers and traces of life’s cycles; and pressed specimens of endangered plants that evoke fragile yet persistent forms of life. It also introduces Dreaming of Earth, a long-term project that began in the DMZ and later expanded into Nature Rules, presenting ecological and peace-oriented visions for the future. An extensive archive traces the development of Choi’s thought and practice over several decades.
Through this exhibition, visitors are invited to reflect on how we exist in the world and how we might relate to the many forms of life with which we share it.
We sincerely look forward to your visit.
Where Beings Be
Seoul Museum of Art (61 Deoksugung-gil (Seosomun-dong), Jung-gu, Seoul)
Tuesday, 23 December, 2025 – Sunday, 5 April, 2026
10:00–20:00 on Tuesdays to Thursdays, 10:00–21:00 on Fridays, 10:00–18:00 (November to February) and 10:00–19:00 (March to October) on Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays
Closed on Mondays, 1 January