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Busan Museum of Art to Host 2026 BMA Future Museum Forum

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The Busan Museum of Art announced that it will host the 2026 BMA Future Museum Forum on September 19.

The forum was organized around the Museum’s new vision, “Meta-Museum Leading the Future.” In response to the changing artistic environment and evolving social expectations of public art museums, the forum approaches the renovation as a process of redefining the Museum’s structure and role and explores the future direction of museums.

Focusing on the contemporary trend in which the museum-going experience is expanding beyond the visual toward multisensory engagement, the forum will discuss the possibilities of the museum of the future under the themes of “Multi-sensory Space” and “Polyphonic Publics.”

The forum will open with a keynote address by theorist and curator Irit Rogoff titled “What Hope Is There for Museums in a Broken World?” Rogoff has pioneered interdisciplinary research in visual culture and developed the concept of the “curatorial,” which regards exhibitions as sites where discourse and knowledge are produced. In her keynote address, she will question the possibilities available to museums today as they confront multiple, overlapping crises.

The first session, “Multi-sensory Space,” will reconsider the museum experience through issues involving architecture and the body, digital environments and technology, and sensation and attention.

Architect Sarah Robinson will explore museum spaces from a new perspective, viewing architecture not as a fixed object but as an interaction between the body and the environment.

Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, a curator at ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, will expand the idea of the museum as a site of “world-building” within hybrid environments where physical, digital, and networked spaces intersect.

Amy Cheng, Senior Curator at the Singapore Art Museum, will examine what conditions of perception and attention museums should create beyond sensory stimulation in the age of the “attention economy.”

The second session, “Polyphonic Publics,” will discuss how questions of space and sensation connect to the public nature of museums.

Pascal Gielen, a cultural sociologist at the University of Antwerp, will move beyond the concept of “participation” to propose the possibility of the museum as a cultural commons that is collectively cared for and shared.

Elisabeth Thomas, an archival researcher at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, will use archives to illuminate the multiple memories and voices embedded in museum history.

Curator and researcher Lucia Pietroiusti will explore a new institutional model by viewing the museum as a “living ecosystem” in which interdependent relationships and knowledge production take place.

Participation in the forum is free of charge, and registration is available starting today, September 8, through the Busan Museum of Art website at http://art.busan.go.kr/.

For more information, visit the Busan Museum of Art website at http://art.busan.go.kr/ or contact the Curatorial Research Office at 051-740-4244.

Seo Jin-seok, Director of the Busan Museum of Art, said, “Busan Museum of Art views the museum not as a place of one-way communication between artworks and visitors, but as a space where the body and senses, technology and the environment come together to create new relationships and experiences.” He added, “We hope that citizens will take great interest in and participate in this meaningful opportunity to explore together the roles and possibilities of the public art museum of the future.”