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MMCA×LG OLED Series 2026

  • 2026-07-31 ~ 2026-11-29
  • Seoul B1, Seoul Box

Exhibition Overview

MMCA×LG OLED Series 2026

MMCA×LG OLED Series is a mid-to-long-term partnership between the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea and LG Electronics that explores new possibilities in contemporary art. Each year, the project selects a single artist to present a newly commissioned site-specific work in Seoul Box, an iconic space at MMCA Seoul. Bringing together advanced display technology and artistic imagination, the series proposes a distinct mode of visual experience.


The second edition in 2026 presents Have Many Dumb Fights Against Rock by Christine Sun Kim. Kim has developed a distinctive visual language that translates structures of language and sound into visual form. Through concise lines, graphic symbols, and text infused with humor, Kim translates sound, movement, dialogue, and tension into visual form, rendering perceptible how language structures relationships and power. The newly commissioned work actively engages both the architectural openness of Seoul Box and the spatial qualities of OLED display technology, expanding the artist's critical perspective on contemporary modes of communication into an immersive spatial experience.


The exhibition title evokes cycles of conflict and unproductive argumentation.Kim frames the polarized conditions amplified by digital environments and online media as a sensation akin to “arguing endlessly with a rock.” Here, the “rock” refers not only to those whose positions remain immovable but also to ourselves when we become entrenched in our own certainties and unable to compromise. It signifies recurring exchanges that fail to reach understanding, as well as the rigid structures that organize language and relationships. Within a space where language and its visualized forms intersect and continually shift, viewers are invited to experience communication not as a fixed outcome but as an evolving process through which difference and relationships are continually reconfigured. In doing so, the exhibition invites reflection on new possibilities for communication that enable coexistence with others without erasing difference.


  • Period
    2026-07-31 ~ 2026-11-29
  • Organized by/Supported by
    MMCA / LG Electronics
  • Venue
    Seoul B1, Seoul Box
  • Admission
    0
  • Artist
    Christine Sun Kim
  • Numbers of artworks
    1

Related Materials

MMCA×LG OLED Series 2026_leaflet.pdf

Audio Guide

Here in the Seoul Box, we are standing in a symbolic space of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. This space currently hosts the second exhibition of the MMCA×LG OLED Series, which launched for the first time last year. This collaborative project was developed by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea in partnership with LG Electronics. By combining advanced display technology and artistic imagination, this series offers visitors new ways of experiencing contemporary art. For this year's edition, artist Christine Sun Kim has transformed this space by utilizing the architectural characteristics of the Seoul Box to create a monumental installation consisting of large-scale digital animation and wall drawings. Artist Christine Sun Kim, a Berlin-based Korean American, has explored language, sound, and structures of communication across a diverse range of media, including drawing, moving image, and performance. She has gained significant recognition in the contemporary art world, including being ranked 34th on a 2025 British contemporary art magazine list of the most influential figures in international contemporary art. Kim has developed a distinctive artistic language that translates communicative language into visual form. Rooted in the experiences of deaf communities, her work draws upon a wide range of visual elements, including American Sign Language, musical notation, the motion lines of comic books, handwritten drawings, diagrams, and text. Through these elements, Kim visually reveals how language forms and transforms interpersonal relationships, and how it connects us to the world at large. Her work invites us to reconsider the systems and conventions of communication that we often take for granted. In recent years, her practice has expanded beyond individual drawings and performances into immersive spatial environments, transforming language itself into a three-dimensional experience. Within this space, we are invited to experience the ways in which language is generated, moves, and collides through multiple senses.
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