Seoul museums to host Baselitz, Sol LeWitt

Seoul’s museum calendar is stacking several major contemporary-art shows for late summer and autumn, with institutions across the city preparing exhibitions tied to Do Ho Suh, Georg Baselitz and Sol LeWitt. Korean daily *Khan* reported on Aug. 5 that the fall season would bring a new round of museum “blockbusters” after a first half that included a Damien Hirst solo exhibition and a Yoo Youngkuk retrospective. The lineup stretches across state and private venues rather than a single fair or festival. The result is a citywide program that mixes a Korean installation artist with two major figures from postwar Western art. ### Which museums are involved, and who is showing where? The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, is preparing a solo exhibition of Do Ho Suh that opens on Aug. 27. MMCA’s exhibition page says the show will run through Feb. 9, 2027, at its Seoul branch. *Khan* said the exhibition will survey about 30 years of Suh’s practice, from early works and major installations to projects still in progress. (khan.co.kr) The Amorepacific Museum of Art will open “Sol LeWitt: Open Structure” on Sept. 1, according to *Khan*. The newspaper described it as the first large-scale solo exhibition in Korea for the conceptual-art pioneer and said it would include wall drawings, geometric sculptures, paintings and drawings. The Sehwa Museum of Art will open a Georg Baselitz exhibition on Aug. 13, *Khan* reported. (mmca.go.kr) The paper said the show is the first in Korea since Baselitz’s death in April 2026 and that it will span work from the 1960s through later series, including portraits of his wife Elke, the “Remix” works and late “Gold Painting” works. ### Why is Do Ho Suh’s show getting early attention? (khan.co.kr) Aug. 27 is the opening date MMCA and *Khan* both give for Suh’s Seoul exhibition, and the visual hook is clear: translucent houses made from vividly colored fabric. *Khan* said those fabric structures will be installed at MMCA Seoul as part of a broad survey of the artist’s career. Do Ho Suh is one of South Korea’s best-known international artists, and MMCA’s English-language upcoming exhibitions page describes the show as a large-scale presentation spanning early works, major pieces and ongoing projects. (khan.co.kr) That framing places the exhibition as a retrospective-style survey rather than a narrowly themed project. ### What does the Baselitz exhibition add to Seoul’s fall season? (khan.co.kr) Aug. 13 gives Seoul one of the earliest openings in this fall run, with Sehwa Museum of Art presenting Baselitz just weeks before the Suh and LeWitt shows. *Khan* said the exhibition will include the upside-down figures and fragmented bodies associated with the German Neo-Expressionist painter’s work. (mmca.go.kr) The same report said the Seoul presentation arrives after Baselitz died in April at age 88. By linking early paintings, later reinterpretations and late works in one show, the museum is positioning the exhibition as a career-spanning account rather than a single-period display, according to the newspaper’s description. ### What should visitors expect from the Sol LeWitt show? (khan.co.kr) Sept. 1 is the opening date *Khan* gave for “Sol LeWitt: Open Structure” at the Amorepacific Museum of Art. The report said the exhibition will introduce LeWitt’s wall drawings, geometric sculpture, paintings and works on paper, with an emphasis on the rules and ideas behind the work rather than only its finished form. (khan.co.kr) Sol LeWitt’s place in conceptual art is well established, and museum material from other institutions describes him as an artist who helped shift attention from expressive gesture toward systems, repetition and instruction-based forms. That background helps explain why a Seoul survey would center both drawings on walls and modular structures in space. ### How does this fit into Seoul’s 2026 exhibition calendar? (khan.co.kr) Aug. 5 reporting from *Khan* said the first half of Seoul’s museum year had already been anchored by a Damien Hirst solo show and a Yoo Youngkuk retrospective before the autumn schedule filled out. Another *Khan* culture report in June also described Seoul’s summer exhibition scene as expanding through large-scale museum and gallery programming. (sfmoma.org) MMCA’s current listings show the institution already running multiple Seoul and Gwacheon exhibitions into the second half of 2026, including “Korea Artist Prize 2026” and “This Is Not Conceptual Art.” That broader schedule suggests the Suh exhibition will land in an already active museum season rather than open in isolation. ### What are the next dates to watch? Aug. 13 is the first key opening, when Sehwa Museum of Art begins its Georg Baselitz exhibition. (khan.co.kr) Aug. 27 follows with Do Ho Suh at MMCA Seoul, and Sept. 1 brings “Sol LeWitt: Open Structure” to the Amorepacific Museum of Art, according to *Khan* and MMCA’s exhibition listings. (mmca.go.kr)