Sehwa Museum of Art Presents its 2025 Spring Exhibition:
Floating World: Bed, Bath Bus
- Sehwa Museum of Art presents a group exhibition featuring ten contemporary artists from Korea and abroad, exploring the boundary between reality and fiction
- The exhibition explores the uncanny scenes in everyday life and subtle, complex structures of the world we live in
- An exhibition open to all, in an urban city, showcasing 47 artworks, including new works created with the support of the Sehwa Museum and selections from its collection
Sehwa Museum of Art (Director: Hye-ock Seo), affiliated with the Taekwang Group, presents its 2025 spring exhibition Floating World: Bed, Bath, Bus from Thursday, April 17 to Sunday, June 29, 2025. The exhibition features works by ten contemporary artists from Korea and abroad, capturing moments where the boundaries between reality and fiction of our world blur and intersect. A total of 47 artworks—including paintings, photographs, installations, and videos—are on view, along with reference materials that served as a source of creativity and inspiration for the participating artists.
Floating World: Bed, Bath, Bus highlights the complexity of the world where fiction that feels real—or surreal events—turns into everyday life scenes, in an era rapidly transforming due to the changes in social structure and technological advancement. The participating artists, from different generations spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, capture facets of the world they each have experienced and interpreted, infused with their imagination and fiction. Traversing reality and unreality through diverse media, the artworks invite viewers to see familiar scenes of everyday life in unfamiliar ways, offering moments of insight into the meaning of reality.
The exhibition features ten artists: Korean artists Myeongbeom Kim, Raejung Sim, Jisan Ahn, Leebinsoyeon, Sungeun Chang, Kyungwoo Chun, and Sun Woo, and international artists Issy Wood, Laure Prouvost, and Piper Bangs. Exploring the structures and gaps within reality and at times constructing worlds interwoven with illusion and fiction, the artists unveil both existing and new works created with the support of the Sehwa Museum of Art. The exhibition also includes materials such as books, objects, and drawings that each artist referenced for creation, helping audiences better understand their complex and multifaceted artistic worlds.
The exhibition is open to the public free of charge at Sehwa Museum of Art, located on the third floor of Heungkook Life Insurance Building in Gwanghwamun. To enhance audience accessibility, audio commentary and barrier-free sign language interpretation are provided. The exhibition also proposes diverse perspectives and approaches to deepen the audience’s understanding and appreciation through lunchtime and evening programs for urban office workers, exhibition-related artist talks, and workshops with participating artists. Visitors can register for each exhibition-related program via the official website of the Sehwa Museum of Art or the Naver online booking platform.
Taekwang Group founded the Sehwa Art and Culture Foundation in 2009 to contribute to the popularization of culture and the arts. Since then, it has operated Ilju & Seonhwa Gallery, supporting both Korean and international artists and organizing exhibitions. Since its expansion and reopening as the Sehwa Museum of Art in 2017, it has presented permanent exhibitions on the first floor and various special exhibitions in the gallery on the third floor of the Heungkuk Life Insurance Building in Gwanghwamun.