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Kwon ByungjunBuk-Seoul Museum of Art
Kwon Byungjun: I Embrace You
권병준: 내 마음속에 너는
About the exhibition
In two basement galleries, robots that resemble people wobble as they move, which the museum says reminds us of ourselves. It casts them as "strangers" to ask who "we" are and how people can live together. This is one of the museum's Children+ exhibitions, planned from a child's point of view. The title comes from the artist's song Deep in My Mind.
The city listing counts six works. Newsis describes Golden Flower (2026) as a moving robot form of shape-memory alloy (metal that returns to a set shape) and cloth, about 3.5 meters high and 6 meters across. Newsis reports that Veiled Soundpath (2026) links the galleries and shifts attention from sight to hearing. The museum lists Resonance between Nature and Neural (2026) as a 12.2-channel sound system. Lullabies, nature sounds and AI-generated sounds run through the show.
The robots give 1,534 performances over the run, each about 10 minutes.
About the artist
Kwon Byungjun (b. 1971, Seoul) is based in Seoul. The artist began as a singer-songwriter in the early 1990s and has made six albums, as well as music for soundtracks, theater, fashion shows and modern dance. In the late 2000s Kwon studied art and science in the Netherlands and worked as a hardware engineer at STEIM, a research center for electronic musical instruments. Since returning to Korea in 2011 the artist has worked in contemporary visual art with sound and media. Kwon won the Korea Artist Prize 2023. Seoul Mediacity Biennale calls the artist "a pioneer of mechanical theater."
Sources: Artist website · Seoul city culture site: exhibition listing · e-flux: I Embrace You
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