▶ Intro
Overlapping and trembling, a path opens
Shift does not mean disconnection or departure. At the boundary where the familiar and the new, where the similar and the different overlap and tremble, an unprecedented path begins to unfold. This is why we gathered the thoughts of the people of Seoul National University—those who step into change and challenge, and who willingly broaden the stage of possibility.
The Seoul National University Museum of Art (SNUMOA), Korea’s first university art museum that opened in 2006, is presenting “Deep into Abstraction – On the Way” from June 19 to September 14, 2025.
The works of 17 artists, spanning painting, photography, and installation, demonstrate the idea that “all abstract art is an attempt to achieve a sense of truth and goodness between the world and beyond.”
The exhibition introduces diverse approaches: a work that combines pigments with the shapes of household furniture1; another that draws on the colors of dancheong and the decorative patterns of traditional Korean houses2; a piece that sensually reconfigures architectural memories beyond simple geometric abstraction3; and works that reinterpret the city through photography and painting as “pictures to read and decode.”4
