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Kimsooja’s MMCA Hyundai Motor Series exhibition, Archive of Mind, was a slow meditation on questions of identity and personal embodiment, drawing on participatory artworks to conjure a sense of collective consciousness.

“When looking at people surrounding the table, it feels like them being one united community.” MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2016 : Kimsooja – Archive of Mind has ended its 6 months journey, which was held at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul from July 2016 to February 2017. One of the main works of this exhibition, which had been completed through visitors’ participation, has emptied and filled their hearts through the act of clay ball making. Kimsooja mentions that the process of rolling and pressing clay balls to make it as round as possible, can be perceived as a symbolic presentation of the balance and imbalance existing in our real world. Moreover, she adds that people can experience each individual will be able to experience becoming one united community by accumulating their ‘minds.’

Finalist Sukjoon Jang’s Flatcity played with ideas of perception and place. Shot using a drone camera, the opening vista appears at first as a single aerial shot of an urban setting. Eventually, a grid emerges and the dozens of differing landscapes that have been sewn together become discreet as the camera zooms over barren parking lots and futuristic highrises, eventually settling on a small piece of land or a dark patch of highway. The sensation of so many moving elements is disorienting as one doubts their own eyes, but the effect is clear: as much as we build, there will always be space in between. By focusing on the small but still open spaces, Jang reminds viewers that limits are not always as they appear. Ends are also beginnings.

The inaugural edition of Hyundai Motor's VH AWARD selected artists who experiment with the parameters of audiovisual creation in Korea while expanding our ways of seeing and participating in the world around us.

The VH AWARD celebrates artists who have continually explored the relationship between art and technology, pushing past fixed ideas of both. For the inaugural edition, VH AWARD honored three Korean artists for their ability to merge their artistic practice with technological progress: Sukjoon Jang, Sungjae Lee, and Grand Prix winner, JE BAAK.

The modern cityscape enclosed within the flat computer screen is perceived with the zooming in and out activities with mouse scrolling movements. Using a drone camera as its tool, Flat mimics the movements of getting closer and drifting away that are captured in the virtual reality within online map system. Images recorded in various locations are divided by each coordinate’s frame, and perpendicularly ambulate between the parts and whole of scenery to draw a novel, sensuous media-landscape. 우수상 장석준, 평평한 도시 (2015) 평평한 컴퓨터 화면 안에 담긴 현대 사회의 풍경은 마우스의 줌인아웃 스크롤 운동으로 도시를 이해시키며 '평평한 도시'는 온라인 지도 속 멀어지고 가까워지는 가상의 움직임을 실제 공간에서 드론으로 재현합니다. 서로 다른 위치에서 촬영된 영상은 각 좌표의 프레임으로 나뉘어져 풍경의 파편과 전체를 수직으로 이동하며 새로운 감각의 미디어 풍경화를 그려냅니다.

Je Baak received the Grand Prix for A Journey, an otherworldly meditation that feels both surreal and familiar. Baak’s video work takes place in a celestial landscape where forms such as the moon or a white flag are stretched beyond the horizon of realism. The setting is a foreign space, where the rules of earth no longer apply, but Baak’s gift is a sense of optimism—what could be scary is instead enchanting. A Journey is a sort of metaphor for life, allowing viewers to experience a world full of symbolic elements and situations from the perspective of a traveler on their life’s journey.

The recipients of LACMA's 2023 Art + Technology Lab engage emerging technology to address social and environmental matters.

Brilliant Ideas is a video series that profiled 77 contemporary artists, presented in partnership with Bloomberg.

Sejong Hyundai Motorgallery presented a series of large-scale video installations from over forty artists projected onto the exterior of the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts.

For Invisible Land of Love, Ahn Kyuchul presented eight works spanning genres and mediums—from literature and architecture to music, video, performance, and publication.

A retrospective exploring the subjectivity of animals and the complex relationships humans have constructed with nature.

Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination—presented as part of The Hyundai Project: Art + Technology at LACMA—brought together 22 of Thater’s works from the early 1990s through 2015. The artist’s first comprehensive museum exhibition in the United States, The Sympathetic Imagination explored the subjectivity of animals and the complex relationships humans have constructed with nature, among other themes.

Jonathan Keats explored how technology wearables might fundamentally alter people's sense of self.

For over 40 years, British sculptor Antony Gormley's work has focused on what it feels like to inhabit the human body. From intimate sculptures casting his own form and collaborative community projects to architecture explorations on a grand scale, his work can be seen around the world on shorelines and clifftops, tower blocks and in cathedrals. Influenced by the dialogue between arts and the spiritual, anthropology and science, he asks questions about our place in the world.

U-Ram Choe is one of South Korea’s most exciting contemporary artists. Born in 1970 in Seoul, U-Ram creates meticulously intricate and beautiful art works. Biology, mathematics, robotics and engineering shape his work. In this episode of the series "Brilliant Ideas," presented by Bloomberg and Hyundai, U-Ram talks about his struggle to become an artist and reveals how he makes his extraordinarily life-like sculptures. His art has been shown in cities across the world including Tokyo, Venice, New York and Shanghai. His machine-like sculptures are remarkable - they have to be seen to be believed.

Born in 1955, Ahn Kyuchul is a Korean sculpture and installation artist, writer and teacher. He has taken a different path to the circle of Korean sculptors who mainly work on decorative art and monumental sculptures, preferring instead to work with mundane objects like the hammer, the door, the table – objects with no real meaning or aesthetic value. His work explores aims to realize his long and profound examination on life and what contemporary art could be. He is the artist chosen for the 2015 edition of the Hyundai Motor Series at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea’s 10-year long project to support solo exhibitions of distinguished Korean artists with distinctive practices.

Hyundai Commission is a new series of site-specific installations by contemporary artists in the Turbine Hall, the heart of London's Tate Modern. It is made possible by a unique long-term partnership between Tate Modern, one of the world's most popular galleries of modern and contemporary art, and Hyundai Motor - confirmed until 2025. The Turbine Hall has hosted some of the most memorable and acclaimed works of contemporary art, since Tate Modern opened in 2000. Each year, the Hyundai Commission gives an artist, the opportunity to create new work for this unique space. The inaugural Hyundai Commission is by Abraham Cruzvillegas, an artist known for his theory-driven works. His Empty Lot, for the Turbine Hall, is a large geometric sculpture using soil and various objects collected from around London. By establishing a new dialogue, Empty Lot tells a story of ‘from nothing, to hope’. Experience the very first Hyundai Commission through this episode of [HYUNDAI Meets].

In October 2016, Philippe Parreno transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into an immersive experience, challenging visitors' perception of time and space with his Anywhen installation. Anywhen was a site-specific exhibition that changed throughout the day and that would evolve during the six-month period of the commission, until 2 April 2017. Visitors would have their senses activated and stimulated by a spectacular choreography of acoustics, sound lighting, flying objects and film, each connected to the other, and playing their part in a far bigger score. Tate’s Turbine Hall became a universe of inter-related and connected events and parallel realities. Events would unfold anywhen.

Hyundai Commission: Philippe Parreno: Anywhen, an installation that filled up Turbine Hall with sounds, films, movements, lights and many other elements, carried the idea of time and the essence of experiences. What story did Parreno want to tell with the word “Anywhen”? Why could people hardly leave his exhibition at the Turbine Hall? “We don’t to know what is happening here, but we have to trust that something is happening” says the artist and presenting a constantly changing and developing “new future” through his mesmerizing installation work.

Abraham Cruzvillegas's Hyundai Commission: Empty Lot, a space where nothing was planted or produced but where change could happen nonetheless.

The first commission at Tate after the opening of the Blavatnick Building, Philippe Parreno’s work transformed Turbine Hall into an experience that plays with time and space.

The 2nd VH AWARD celebrated Korean artists who are making screen-based works that expand ways of making as well as how we understand ourselves and each other in relation to the past, present and future.

Random International's Rain Room exhibition at LACMA, an immersive sound and light installation that allowed visitors to walk through a continuous downpour without getting wet.