Hyun Seewon

Hyun Seewon is a curator and writer based in Seoul, South Korea. Since 2013, she has been running the Audio Visual Pavilion, an exhibition space located in Seoul. After studying art history and Korean literature at Ewha Womans University, she received her MA in Art History from Korea National University of Arts with a thesis on post-Minjoong (post-People’s Art movement) which was vital to the Korean art scene in the 1980s. Hyun has published several books on contemporary art and has curated numerous exhibitions. The Platform of Night (Arko Art Theater, 2021), Cross Check-Sasa[44] + Seunghye Hong (AVP Lab, 2021), A Snowflake (Kukje Gallery, 2017), Read following sentences (Ilmin Art Museum, 2013) etc. Her interest in context, platforms of exhibition, and history have led to the manifestations of projects in a number of spaces, ranging from traditional Korean architecture to performance and theater spaces, museums, galleries, as well as the printed page.