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Busan Museum of Art Hosts “Moving on Asia” — A Platform for Exchange in Contemporary Asian Video Art

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The Busan Museum of Art announced that it is holding Moving on Asia, an international cultural exchange program highlighting the latest trends in video art from the Asia-Pacific region. The exhibition and events will take place through June 29 at the Museum and the Busan Cinema Center.

Organized in collaboration with Loop Lab Busan, Moving on Asia aims to shed new light on contemporary Asian art, fostering aesthetic and social imagination that transcends borders, generations, and local contexts. The program, themed Asia in Motion Through Images, features a multi-layered structure including exhibitions, forums, screenings, and artist talks.

The forum, scheduled for April 24 at the Domohon Lecture Hall, will address three themes:

• 1.Myth and Subjective History in Video Culture,

• 2.Fluidity and Variability in the Age of Digital Technology, and

• 3.Performativity of Place and the Politics of the Body.

These sessions will explore how video art reshapes collective memory, challenges spatial and temporal boundaries, and provokes sensory and cognitive engagement.

On April 25, the screening event will present single-channel works by leading video artists from across Asia, including Yang Fudong, Yuan Goang-Ming, Meiro Koizumi, and others. The screenings will focus on non-linear narratives, the aesthetics of memory and community, and digital temporalities. An artist talk following the screening will provide a space for direct dialogue between curators, artists, and audiences.

The exhibition will showcase 20 works by 18 artists from 13 countries including Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Renowned digital media artists such as Jang Woo-jin and Yusuke Sasaki will present works that allow audiences to experience and compare contemporary media art practices across Asia in one place.

Loop Lab Busan, modeled after the world’s first digital video art fair, Loop Barcelona, is Asia’s first alternative event experimenting with horizontal community connections. Running from April to June, it features exhibitions, forums, and art fairs.

The exhibitions and forums are hosted by the Busan Museum of Art, while the art fair is organized by the cultural planning group A Fluxtion, providing a diverse range of content.

Admission to Loop Lab Busan and Moving on Asia is free. For more information, visit the Museum’s website at art.busan.go.kr or call the Curatorial Office at 051-740-4268.

Seo Jin-seok, Director of the Busan Museum of Art, commented:

“Moving on Asia offers a chance to examine how technology-based art communicates with society and expresses independent voices. We hope this initiative becomes a foundation for expanding and connecting the Asian media art ecosystem.”