page_title: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
section_title: Collections and Exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art / Collections and Exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: The brand new Seoul branch of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea opened on Nov. 13, 2013. 39 artists (90% local 10% international) bring a fresh perspective to Korea with pieces across a variety of mediums, with many that invite audience interaction and participation. www.mmca.go.kr/seoul/main.jsp
context_page_description: The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea is a contemporary art museum with the main museum in Gwacheon and three branches each in Deoksugung, Seoul and Cheongju. The museum was first established in 1969 as the only national art museum in the country accommodating modern and contemporary art of Korea and international art of different time periods.
context_section_description: The collections of the main museum in Gwacheon includes around 7,000 artworks including works of contemporary Korean artists such as Go Hui-dong, Ku Bon-ung, Park Su-geun, and Kim Whan-ki. The museum has also gathered a substantial internationally recognized collection including artworks by Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, Marcus Lüpertz, Nam June Paik, Nikki de Saint-Phalle, Jonathan Borofsky, and Michelangelo Pistoletto.
  Past exhibitions include the installation of Sinseon Play - Moon Ji Bang as a part of the Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA PS1 in 2014. In 2011, the MMCA hosted the exhibition The American Art, which was “the first occasion to exhibit the Collection of Whitney Museum, in Asia,” featuring artists such as Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, and  Jasper Johns. Likewise in 2010, the museum hosted the exhibition Picasso and Modern Art, which was the first exhibition of collections from the Albertina Museum (Vienna, Austria)  in an East Asian country. In addition to loan exhibitions, the MMCA has mounted special exhibitions of Korean art, such as Acquisitions in Korean Art 1960-1980, and Masterpieces of Korean Modern Art: Exploration of Modern History in 2008.
caption: Opertus Lunula Umbra (Hidden Shadow of the Moon) by U-ram Choe at Seoul branch opening, 2013
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