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Art & Design Hyundai Motor Continues Its Partnership with Arts Council Korea Through 2034 to Support Korean Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia
Art & Design Hyundai Motor Continues Its Partnership with Arts Council Korea Through 2034 to Support Korean Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia
Art & Design Hyundai Motor Continues Its Partnership with Arts Council Korea Through 2034 to Support Korean Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia
Art & Design Hyundai Motor Continues Its Partnership with Arts Council Korea Through 2034 to Support Korean Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia
Art & Design Hyundai Motor Continues Its Partnership with Arts Council Korea Through 2034 to Support Korean Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia
Art & Design Hyundai Motor Continues Its Partnership with Arts Council Korea Through 2034 to Support Korean Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia
Art & Design Hyundai Motor Continues Its Partnership with Arts Council Korea Through 2034 to Support Korean Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia
Hyundai Motor Continues Its Partnership with Arts Council Korea Through 2034 to Support Korean Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia
SEOUL / VENICE, Italy, May 6, 2026 – Hyundai Motor Company announced its continued support for the Korean Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, in partnership with Arts Council Korea (ARKO), underscoring its commitment to advancing Korean contemporary art within the global cultural discourse.
The International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia is one of the world’s most prominent art events, presenting leading artists and artworks from around the globe. Hyundai Motor has supported the Korean Pavilion since 2015 and will continue its official partnership with ARKO as a lead supporter of the Korean Pavilion through 2034.
For the past decade, we have been honored to support artists in sharing their creative visions with the world through the Korean Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia. By continuing our partnership for another ten years, Hyundai Motor reaffirms its deep commitment to supporting the Korean Pavilion as a sustainable ecosystem for nurturing experimental artistic practices and critical discourses. We look forward to the compelling conversations the Korean Pavilion will inspire for years to come.
Art Director, Hyundai Motor Company
At the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, the Korean Pavilion, commissioned by ARKO, presents Liberation Space: Fortress/Nest, curated by Binna Choi, with works by artists Goen Choi and Hyeree Ro.
The exhibition transforms the Korean Pavilion into a living monument to the idea of “Liberation Space” — a reference to Korea’s post-liberation period (1945–1948) — situating it within contemporary geopolitical and social contexts. Through sculptural interventions that engage directly with the Pavilion’s architecture, the project explores liberation not as a fixed historical moment, but as an ongoing process of movement, resilience, protection, and renewal.
Goen Choi’s Meridian builds on her decade long sculptural practice using industrial materials commonly found in domestic and urban infrastructures. For the Korean Pavilion, copper pipes traverse interior and exterior architectures, evoking linear forms such as needles, spears, branches, or beams of light. These elements pierce and rupture the Pavilion as a body, while simultaneously suggesting processes of circulation, connection, and healing.
By crafting precisely positioned forms from industrial materials, Choi induces the idea of a “fortress” — not as a closed or static structure, but as one that paradoxically allows revelation, openings, and dynamic movement to unfold from within the Pavilion itself. Her intervention pierces and reactivates architectural spaces long closed, transforming the Pavilion into a living environment shaped by continual reorientation. In doing so, the installation frames the Korean Pavilion not only as a site of protection, but as an active body capable of change.
Hyeree Ro’s Bearing presents an expansion of her scope of practice, departing from her longstanding (anti ) narrative approach and explorations of family relations shaped by sociopolitical and economic conditions. For this exhibition, Ro positions the work within intimate and collective registers by including themes of new life, care, community, and nationhood.
Bearing considers the “womb” as a sanctuary or temple for new life, where death is not an endpoint but a condition that enables life and movement. Composed of approximately 4,000 organza elements coated in wax and layered like fish scales or lotus leaves, the installation forms a “pavilion within the pavilion”. Resisting enclosure, it guides visitors through a carefully choreographed passage punctuated by eight stations, each prompting an essential act of life, including mourning, remembering, observing, living, waiting, planning, sharing, and repairing. Fostering the network of “liberation space,” the work brings together Fellows from various fields, further expanding the exhibition’s experiential scope.
Furthermore, for the first time in the history of La Biennale di Venezia, an official collaboration has been established between the Korean Pavilion and the Japan Pavilion. This collaboration emphasizes dialogue, exchange, and artistic cooperation, acknowledging shared and contested histories while foregrounding possibilities for mutual engagement through cross participation and joint programming.
The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia will be held from May 9 to November 22, 2026, at the Giardini in Venice, Italy. Visitor information and ticket details for La Biennale di Venezia are available at: https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2026/information. Additional information can be found at: www.korean-pavilion.or.kr, and www.venicebiennale.kr/en
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About Arts Council Korea (ARKO)
Arts Council Korea (ARKO), the commissioner of the Korean Pavilion, has been responsible for the operation of the pavilion since its opening. ARKO, also known as Arts Council Korea, is an organization dedicated to supporting Korean arts and culture nationally and internationally. It was established with the aim of making the arts accessible to everyone, based on the belief that art has the power to transform lives. It promotes and subsidies projects and activities that promote culture and the arts. ARKO, under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, advocates for the creation and enjoyment of all forms of art.
About Binna Choi
Binna Choi brings two decades of experience working internationally while sustaining deep connections to her roots in the Korean cultural and socio-political landscape. She has been at the forefront of shaping new institutional models through her directorship of Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her recent curatorial projects in the biennale context include the 2025 Hawai’i Triennial, titled ALOHA NÔ, and the 2022 Singapore Biennale, named Natasha. In the educational context, Choi has also worked with the Doosan Curator Workshop (2024-ongoing), Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course (2025), and Dutch Art Institute (2008-2022).
About Goen Choi
Goen Choi works primarily with hard metals often used in domestic infrastructures, creating site-specific sculptural interventions that extend from interiors to rooftops, balconies, and other exterior architectural spaces. Her practice integrates entire sites into a single organic context, traversing the boundaries between the inside and the outside. Recent projects include new commissioned works for the 2nd Frieze Seoul Artist Award (2024) and the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale (2024), Cornering, a solo exhibition at Amado Art Space (2022), and Vivid Cut at P21, Seoul (2021).
About Hyeree Ro
Hyeree Ro is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York and Seoul, primarily working with hand-crafted sculptural objects and structures, and multi-lingual fractured narrative-based performance. As a constant migrant passing through various immigrant statuses and encountering disparities in class and wealth, she interweaves her family history, places, language, body, movement, and stories into her practice. Recent projects include solo exhibitions August is the Cruelest at Doosan Gallery, Seoul (2025), Niro at Canal Projects, New York (2024), and Jinhee at Project Space SARUBIA. Seoul (2022). Ro also serves as an Assistant Arts Professor of Collaborative Arts at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
About Hyundai Motor’s Art Projects
For over a decade, Hyundai Motor Company has deepened its partnerships with museums and cultural organizations worldwide, including Tate, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Hyundai Translocal Series is a new partnership initiative that roots itself in fostering dialogues and collaborations among art institutions in Korea and across the globe. Hyundai Motor’s own art initiatives include open call programs such as the VH AWARD, the Hyundai Blue Prize+, and Artlab Editorial, a digital platform dedicated to art writing by transnational voices. These ongoing collaborations embrace the complexities of the cultural landscape by exploring new ideas and perspectives within and beyond the art ecosystem.
For further information visit artlab.hyundai.com or follow @hyundai.artlab #HyundaiArtlab.
About Hyundai Motor Company
Established in 1967, Hyundai Motor Company is present in over 200 countries with more than 120,000 employees dedicated to tackling real-world mobility challenges around the globe. Based on the brand vision ‘Progress for Humanity,’ Hyundai Motor is accelerating its transformation into a Smart Mobility Solution Provider. The company invests in advanced technologies such as robotics and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) to bring about revolutionary mobility solutions, while pursuing open innovation to introduce future mobility services. In pursuit of sustainable future for the world, Hyundai will continue its efforts to introduce zero emission vehicles equipped with industry-leading hydrogen fuel cell and EV technologies.
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