The 2024 Busan Biennale, titled "Seeing in the Dark," which opened on August 17, runs until October 20 across 4 venues, including the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan Modern & Contemporary History Museum, HANSUNG1918, and Choryang House. The Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, the main exhibition space of the Biennale, showcases the largest number of artworks.

At the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, artworks by 61 artists (or teams) are displayed across the first and second floors, the basement, and outdoor areas. The museum serves as a space where 'darkness' and 'light' blend, featuring artworks that metaphorically embody darkness, as well as sensory experiences involving hearing and touch.

Visitors are greeted at the entrance by a large transmission tower installation. Media artist Joe Namy has created an 8-meter-tall bamboo structure adorned with vintage speakers that broadcast new sounds and dreams for growth and healing through a remix of radio waves.

Upon passing the lobby and entering the exhibition hall, visitors encounter Wasp Nest, an artwork by Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen. This piece is part of their ‘Marauders’ series, which captures morally ambiguous figures such as thieves, pirates, and invaders, represented through hundreds of plexiglass window-shaped sculptures that absorb various elements, including illumination and change, to create a sense of unease within the exhibition space.

In the basement exhibition hall, artist Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson, who works in Ghana, visualizes the properties of different materials that change in specific ways under environmental influences by combining Ghana's staple food, waakye, with Korea's traditional food, napa cabbage kimchi.

On the second floor, visitors can view works by the late artist Bahc Yiso, who passed away shortly after participating in the 2004 Busan Biennale. Based on sketches left behind by the artist, the re-created work Untitled (Today) involves two surveillance cameras installed outside the exhibition hall and a projector inside the hall, capturing the path of the sun’s movement.

“Seeing in the Dark”
2024.08.17 - 2024.10.20
Tue-Sun 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Busan Museum of Contemporary Art
1191, Nakdongnam-ro, Saha-gu, Busan, Korea