International Symposium, “Potential from the Unknown: Contemporary Art and Institutions,” which took place at MMCA Seoul on December 1, 2023, reflected on the role of an art museum as an open institution in harmony with the city, history, society, and contemporary art.

Panel 1. After Institutions
Boris Groys (European Graduate School), “Curating and Collecting Art in the Museums of the Post-Internet Age”
Seo Dongjin (Kaywon University of Art & Design), “The Constellation of Art in the Age of Financialized Capitalism”
Karen Archey(Stedelijk Museum), “Institutional Critique in the Global Critical Field”
＊ Moderated by Mun Hye Jin (Art Critic)

Panel 2. From the Perspective of Asia
David Teh (National University of Singapore), “Institutional Critique: Some Asian Dispositions”
Kim Inhye (Former Head of the Modern Art Department, MMCA), “How to Recall Colonial History”
Jung Hyun (Inha University), “Korean Art in the 1990s and Contemporaneity”
＊ Moderated by Shin Chunghoon (Seoul National University)

Panel 3. Ecological Exposure
Alexander Alberro (Columbia University), “Project Exhibitions and the Twenty-first Century Art Museum”
ikkibawiKrrr (Artist Collective), “On Companions”
Lucy Steeds (University of Edinburgh), “What Comes After ‘Global’ Exhibition Histories? Art Between the ‘Planetary’ and the ‘Earthly’”
＊ Moderated by Kim Sung woo (Primary Practice)