Frieze Seoul 2025 opens next week and to help you navigate the city here are 5 maybe 6 exhibitions to see while you are in Seoul for the fair.
1 Antony Gormley Inextricable Thaddaeus Ropac, 2nd September – 8th November 2025 + at White Cube Seoul, 2nd September -18th October 2025.
Thaddaeus Ropac and White Cube to present Inextricable, a two-part exhibition by Antony Gormley. Inextricable infiltrates the public realm and its inner shelter to interrogate the entanglement between humanity and the city – a relationship so thoroughly inscribed that, as the artist states, ‘the world now builds us.’ The exhibition opens at a time when more than half the global population lives within the urban grid – a figure the United Nations projects will rise to a further 70% by 2050. Positioned as both reflection and provocation, the exhibition is a test site, talking directly to the materials and methods of the city and creating a resonance between the space of the body and its surroundings. MORE
2 Handful of Dust, August 29th to September 19th studiya
Art Curatorial Nomads present the group exhibition Handful of Dust in collaboration with studiya. Handful of Dust is a reflection on what remains when meaning fades. The exhibition explores untranslatable fragments, obsolete gestures, and materials that continue to exist even after their function has been lost. It is not about nostalgia or archaeology, but about residues — things that have fallen out of time yet still quietly persist. MORE
3 TAKASHI MURAKAMI, Seoul, Kawaii Summer Vacation, September 2nd–October 11th, 2025 APMA Cabinet, Amorepacific Headquarters
47 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches (120 x 120 cm) ©2025 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Photo: Kei Okano Courtesy the artist and Gagosian
Gagosian to present a solo exhibition by Takashi Murakami – Seoul, Kawaii Summer Vacation, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Murakami presented at the headquarters of Amorepacific, the world-renowned Korean beauty company, in the center of Seoul. MORE
4 Frieze House Seoul ‘UnHouse’, September 2nd – October 2nd, 2025, Seoul 17, Dongho-ro 15-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 04598
Frieze House Seoul will open its first exhibition in September 2025 with UnHouse, curated by writer, curator, and and gallerist Jaeseok Kim. The exhibition reimagines the home — one of the most intimate yet political spaces — through the frame of queerness. MORE
5 Ensemble of Selves: 4 Artists and More, 30th August- 26th September, 224 UN Village-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
RANEE SEOUL to present Ensemble of Selves: 4 Artists and More, a cross-cultural exhibition.
The residency of French artists Antoine Carbonne and Sophie Varin at RANEE SEOUL will unfold into a group exhibition with Korean artists Jongwan Jang and Mirim Chu. Two artist couples—each with distinct visual languages and cultural contexts—bring forth multifaceted, layered selves that are attuned into an ensemble. MORE
