LOST & LUCKY

2025. 12 . 27.
Wonangari (1st floor, 13-13 Cheonyeon-dong, Seodaemun-gu)


Artists: Kwak Intan, Kim Dan, Nam Dahoon, Park Jiwon, Son Gyuwon, Lee Hyuntae
Artistic Director: Shinil Kim
Curator: Kim Haeda
Project Architect: Jeong Haesoo
Project Manager: Min Soyeon
Coordinator: Kim Jihoo, Lee Dahee
Supported by: Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture


One thousand paper cranes, a four-leaf clover, and a small stone picked up by chance along the road. Throughout history, objects believed to bring good fortune have existed alongside us, carrying different names and meanings shaped by their time and cultural context.
President Roosevelt carried a rabbit’s foot in his jacket, Napoleon kept a lucky coin, and during his election campaigns, Barack Obama carried various lucky charms in his pocket. According to research conducted by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hertfordshire, people who possess lucky charms not only feel luckier, but also tend to live lives that are, in fact, more “fortunate.” But what happens if you lose your one and only lucky charm?
When people lose a cherished talisman, they are often overcome with anxiety. Yet there is an old story passed down through generations: a lucky charm disappears once it has fulfilled its purpose. The charm then sets off on another journey in search of a new owner. At the end of that long journey lies the Lost Luck Repository — a mysterious pawnshop where lost lucky charms gather. This secret place opens its doors for only nine hours a year. At the close of 2025, take a moment to reflect on your own life and inner world, and encounter the lucky charms of six artists: Kwak Intan, Kim Daeun, Nam Dahyun, Park Jiwon, Son Gyuwon, and Lee Hyuntae.

To the Freedom, We Dance

2025. 09. 05. - 11. 02.
Wałbrzyska Galeria Sztuki BWA, Wałbrzych, Poland


Artists: Shin il Kim, Jeong Han KIM, Na Hyun, Nam Dahoon, Mozelle, Kahee Jeong, siren eun young jung, Ala Savaschevich, Alexander Chekmenev, ENDO Mai x MOMOSE Aya, Everyday Impunity Project, Hsu Tsun-Hsu 許村旭, Józef Robakowski, Igor Wojcik, Tooraj Khamenehzadeh, Vinai Dithajohn
Artistic Director: Shinil Kim
Exhibition Director: Kang Jeauk
Curator: Kim Haeda, Paweł Bąkowski(FOTO-GEN Gallery OKIS)
Assistant Curator: Kim Jihoo
Project Manager: Min Soyeon
Supported by: Seoul Metropolitan Government, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Wałbrzych, FORMAT


The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of Korea’s Liberation and the 105th anniversary of Poland’s Victory Day. MINDBOOM 2025: To the Freedom, We Dance commemorates these pivotal historical moments in both nations’ histories and reflects on the hard-earned meaning of independence. At the same time, the exhibition seeks to explore the concept of “freedom” in a broader and more contemporary level.
Can we truly say we have attained complete freedom? Even after the end of physical oppression, we continue to live within invisible boundaries shaped by cultural conventions, historical memories, and structures of perception. These boundaries regulate our senses, interrupt our speech, and limit the scope of what we can imagine—often exerting control over the deeper layers of our daily lives as subtly and insidiously as political repression once did.
Each artist participating in MINDBOOM 2025: To the Freedom, We Dance confronts these boundaries in their own way. Their works challenge the limits of familiar systems and move beyond existing frameworks to explore new ways of thinking. Through their gestures, we seek to surrender our bodies to rhythms that did not exist before—dancing toward unspoken languages, unreachable sensations, and impossible imaginings.

The First Here, And the Last on the Earth

2024. 10. 11. – 11. 3.
Oil Tank Culture Park T1, T2 Outdoor Stage, T6 Rooftop Terrace & Lecture Room

Is there anything that exists as a second?
The moment we acknowledge that there is no such thing as a second existence, we become aware of the dignity of those who exist singularly as the first and last on Earth. In nature, every being is the first of its kind, and humanity is no exception. Yet, being content with merely existing as the first among all living entities is not enough for humankind. We tirelessly construct norms and values, giving rise to the vast structure known as civilization. Ironically, we often encounter the paradox where the consciously fabricated 'second things' assume greater importance than the 'first things.'
The First Here, and the Last on the Earth transcends mere admiration for the fact that we are all unique as the first and last beings. It aims to explore the confines and undercurrents of human reason, which, in its forgetfulness of being the 'first existence,' becomes ensnared by 'second things,' crafting countless narratives wherein life and death intertwine. Art possesses the profound power to question and manifest the dilemmas emanating from these 'second things.’ In this present moment, where now stands as the first, and if the world's end is epitomized by the sky, it is my aspiration, as one who exists lastly, to become free once again.

Awakening Flow

2024. 10. 27. 13:00 - 14:00 2024. 10.27. 15:00 - 16:00
Oil Tank Culture Park, T6 Rooftop Deck

Are you truly awake right now? Does simply having your eyes open mean you are awake? To be fully present in this moment and live with a clear sense of self, we need to practice accepting ourselves as we are. Feeling and observing our bodies can become the starting point for understanding who we are.
This session invites you to open your mind, become aware of your breath, and gently move your body through a soft yoga flow, followed by Yoga Nidra—a quiet moment to observe the body and mind. As you meet your present self in this very moment and continue moving your body with intention, you may begin to sense how body and mind gradually become connected as one.
Awaken each cell in your body and feel the vibrations and energy that move between them. In discovering and accepting yourself as you are, you may take the first step toward becoming more familiar with—and more loving toward—yourself. After all, each of us is inherently beautiful and holds value simply by existing.

Screening: Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Moojin Brothers, Jayoung Ku

2024. 10. 12. 19:00 – 20:00
Oil Tank Culture Park, T1 Outdoor stage
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Moojin Brothers, Jayoung Ku

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook <Reading Inaow for female corpses> Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook has been exploring realms that, while seemingly opposing, are intricately intertwined, such as life and death, and the human and non-human. Her work is significantly influenced by the experience of losing her mother at a young age, which has led her to question the meaning of death over many years. Her projects include reading the Thai epic 'Inaow,' which deals with themes of love and desire, to deceased women, and conducting numerous seminars on death alongside various bodies laid on the floor. For her, death is not merely a negative, a loss, or the end of the world, as conventionally perceived. Interested in transforming the concept of death into `a feather in the wind` through her art, she views it as closer to a state or part of a greater cycle.

Moojin Brothers <The Old Man Was Dreaming About The Lions – Volume I, II> There is a 97-year-old man who has lived for nearly a century in the house he built in his youth. In The Old Man Was Dreaming About The Lions – Volume Ⅰ, Moojin Brothers observe the slow and uneventful flow of the old man's time from an intimately close perspective. What once appeared slow and cumbersome from a distance gains new vitality through the constantly shifting wrinkles and subtle vibrations of his movements. The Old Man Was Dreaming About The Lions – Volume Ⅱ explores the living stories of the old man, his son, and his grandson across three generations. The subtitles of the video—'Ha-Ok(夏屋)’, ‘Ah-Mun(我門)’, and `An-Taek(安宅)` —each reveal different measures of `home.` Rather than forcibly stitching together the stories of these three generationally disparate lives coexisting in the present, Moojin Brothers observe them contemplatively in their fragmented state. By independently rearranging the disjointed stories of each generation in the video, they ponder how new connections might be possible within lives marked by separation.

Jayoung Ku <In the Window II>
Jayoung Ku explores the boundaries between past and present, reality and illusion, focusing on the notion that these are not independently existing concepts but rather part of a continuous flow. In the In the Window II (1999), the artist records himself leaving through a window and projects this onto the actual location. He then films herself repeating the same actions over the projection, layering the past within a single space. His body, the original and real entity, blurs the boundary between reality and illusion within the video, where multiple timeframes are compressed.

Screening: Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Hanna Park, Sunmin Park

2024. 10. 20. 19:00 – 20:00
Oil Tank Culture Park, T1 Outdoor stage
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Hanna Park, Sunmin Park

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook <The Class ll>
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook has been exploring realms that, while seemingly opposing, are intricately intertwined, such as life and death, and the human and non-human. Her work is significantly influenced by the experience of losing her mother at a young age, which has led her to question the meaning of death over many years. Her projects include reading the Thai epic 'Inaow,' which deals with themes of love and desire, to deceased women, and conducting numerous seminars on death alongside various bodies laid on the floor. For her, death is not merely a negative, a loss, or the end of the world, as conventionally perceived. Interested in transforming the concept of death into ""a feather in the wind"" through her art, she views it as closer to a state or part of a greater cycle.

Sunmin Park <Architecture of Mushroom>
Sunmin Park becomes a small creature, akin to an insect, moving slowly to closely observe the hidden ecosystem of mushrooms within the vastness of nature. The clusters of mushrooms, with their pillars and roofs, resemble a city. These forest mushrooms, which develop their own form and then naturally decay when the time comes, both contrast and connect with the characteristics of human-built architecture.
The Architecture of Mushrooms (2019), created from a year of filming mushroom clips in the Gotjawal Forest on Jeju Island and intercut with narrations by thirteen architects from Korea and abroad, reimagines the relationship between nature and humanity.

Hanna Park <Defined in Green>
How do humans, no longer inhabiting the forest, perceive it today? The forest and its creatures can be observed, yet their essence often remains elusive, and encounters with them cannot be fully captured through digital images.
In Defined in Green, Yet Beyond, Park suggests various ways of observing,
contemplating, representing, and naming forests.
By rethinking forests and their inhabitants—often reduced to mere backgrounds, resources, or flat greens instead of the foundation of life—Park emphasizes the unbreakable connection between the forest and our network of existence.

Time Chamber: Lee Hyun-Tae

2024. 10. 19. 16:00 - 17:00
Oil Tank Culture Park, T6 Rooftop Deck
Lee Hyun-Tae

Taking a walk through web spaces, Lee layers real-time extracted sounds and lights within a space.
Each source overlaps, blends, converses, and collides within each passing second.
Through the interplay of countless rules and coincidences in this intersection of time and space, they form an invisible network and become a vast rhythm.
Within the fundamental law of time—that to experience one second, one must live through it—Time Chamber (1sec/sec) (2024) creates new moments with each passing second.

The Chronicle of Rice

2023. 11. 11. 11:00 - 13:00
Workshop Room, 2F, Art Lounge Sinseon 476-7 Pyeongchang-dong, Jongno-gu Seoul, South Korea
Goh Young

Here is a bowl of steaming rice. Before this single bowl of rice arrived at my table, there were countless invisible processes behind it.
First of all, people eat rice, not paddy. Paddy must be milled to become rice, and only then can it be cooked into a meal. When the starch in the rice is sufficiently gelatinized so that it can be chewed, swallowed, and digested in the stomach—when it has been transformed into something that can be eaten—we call it cooked rice.
The iron pot, an essential tool for cooking rice, only began to become common toward the end of the Goryeo period. Even until the mid-1990s, we bought “bagged rice” at stores. It took time for people in this land to be able to eat good rice so easily and so universally.
Urgency becomes visible to us only when we look again at everyday life. Just as the pandemic made us realize that ordinary daily life itself is the very condition of living, I hope that retracing the history of how a bowl of rice arrives at our table may help us rediscover that sense of urgency.

If it were a kind world, could we speak?

2023. 11.4. 13:00-15:00
2023. 11. 4. 16:00 - 18:00
Workshop Room, 2F, Art Lounge Sinseon 476-7 Pyeongchang-dong, Jongno-gu Seoul, South Korea
Lee Hwasoo

It is difficult to fully express the subtle feelings of the heart through words or writing alone. Some people cannot even find the words to describe what they feel. Those unspoken words seem to scatter throughout the world, appearing in the form of pain, wounds, accidents, illness, and even war.
That is why we search for many different ways to express ourselves. We try conversation, we look for answers in books, and we attempt to express our feelings through drawings. Yet a person, words, or images alone cannot fully convey what lies within our hearts.
When people, writing, and images exist separately, they are incomplete; but when they come together, they reveal a gentle strength. Here, people who carry earnest stories from within gather together to write, draw, and communicate—experiencing a world shaped by kindness.

Carving Sound

2023. 11.5. 11:30 - 13:00
2023. 11. 4. 14:00 - 15:30
Workshop Room, 2F, Art Lounge Sinseon 476-7 Pyeongchang-dong, Jongno-gu Seoul, South Korea
Lee Janguk

We explore the words within ourselves and carve them into dalgona. The tapping sound—tak, tak—as the words in the dalgona are broken, along with its sweet taste, becomes a medium through which we connect to another dimension of language.

The Path to Breath, Body, and Mind.

2023, 10. 29. 16:30 - 17:30
2023. 11. 12. 16:30 - 17:30
Rooftop, Art Lounge Sinseon 476-7 Pyeongchang-dong, Jongno-gu Seoul, South Korea
Choi Woonji

As the breath rises and falls, we observe the sensations of the body within the movements of yoga. By being fully awake in the present moment, the breath and body relax, leading toward healing of the mind. Through yoga, experience the feeling of release and spend a peaceful time where body and mind are gently restored together.

Gochigeulla, Run with me

2023. 11. 5. 14:00 - 18:00
2023. 11. 10. 14:00 - 18:00
Workshop Room, 2F, Art Lounge Sinseon 476-7 Pyeongchang-dong, Jongno-gu Seoul, South Korea
memorial shower x Im Heung-soon

Kim Dong-il, a grandmother who was both a witness to the Jeju 4.3 incident and one of the victims of ideological conflict. Artist Im Heung-soon has taken custody of more than 1,000 personal belongings she left behind, including clothes and shoes. Through this work, visitors are invited to take part in organizing her belongings and, through the clothes she left behind, to empathize with and engage in her life and history.
Through a remake workshop, the garments—once hers—will disperse into the wardrobes of participants. In doing so, each piece will become its own memorial, continuing to dream new dreams.

Before a Word Spoken

2023. 10. 19. - 11. 12.
26, Pyeongchang 33-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Arthouse SunSun)

"개구즉착(開口卽錯)" is a Zen phrase that signifies a retreat from the desire to express immediately upon encountering a phenomenon.
Some artists possess their own unutterable questions or profound desires.
They do not feel the need to speak, to confine their thoughts within common concepts or lean on any art or philosophical doctrines of the past.
Sometimes, they are unable to open their mouths. This happens when they encounter the limits of expression that are not entirely free from the past.
Even within these restrictive circumstances, the inner urgency attempts to speak in its own way.
To approach 'that,' which scatters upon waking and recedes upon speaking, MINDBOOM constantly ignites the inner furnace. Before the person without a mouth can open,
MINDBOOM seeks to create a space where the compelling narrative takes ownership.

Burn with Burning Sound

2022. 12. 14 - 12. 29.
Sankyung Mulsan A46

As a subject of neuroscience research, the concept of 'Qualia' (sensory quality) and the 'Second Nature' (the world of information filtered through Qualia) raises many questions about the scientific and spiritual direction of human cognition. According to Gerald Edelman (1929-2014), humans give birth to a virtual 'Second Nature,' not the physical 'First Nature,' through the sensory process of their 'Qualia,' and live within it. The world that flows into the brain is not a physical reality in its raw form, but is inevitably received, perceived, and transformed subjectively, depending on one's memories and circumstances. Humans, whose survival is shaped by connection patterns embedded in DNA from past memories and experiences and by cultural experiences, are inevitably limited by their 'prejudices' and are bound to repeat them.
The theme of MindBoom 2022, ""Connection, Empathy, Solidarity,"" starts with a clear recognition of these existential limitations of humans and supports an attitude that constantly questions the space between First and Second Nature. Whether rejecting discrimination and longing for the state of nature (Hyeonsook HongLee), fundamentally transforming the human body structure to shake human existence (Xooang Choi), leaving traces of breath as the origin of survival (Sun Choi),
deconstructing physical vision (Subin Kang), performing delicate fragments (Jiyeong Hwang), visualizing invisible forces that defy gravity (Donghae Seo), embracing trials with the whole body (Goni), or visualizing social members' patterns (Hyejin Jo), the works of the participating artists invite us to imagine many stories about human perception and resistance.

Artwork, Seeing, Self, Seeing

[1st] 2022. 12. 20. TUE 19:00 ~ 20:00 (60m) [2nd] 2022. 12. 21. WED 19:00 ~ 20:00 (60m)
Sankyung Mulsan A46
Park Cheolhong

“Appreciation is presence.” When we are fully awake to the present moment, a work of art begins to approach us and speak. Experience a special time of observing your own body and mind—just as you would a work of art—guided by facilitator Park Cheolhong.

The Breath Project

2022. 12. 27. TUE 18:00 – 19:00
Workshop Room, B1, 2-1 Dangsan-ro 20-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Choi Sun

Artist Choi Sun has been carrying out the Breath Project since 2014, traveling across different countries and cities to capture the breaths of people of diverse ages, races, nationalities, and genders. In this workshop, the breaths of residents from Strasbourg, France and those from Yeongdeungpo-gu in Seoul, South Korea come together and resonate within a single canvas. Breath by breath, these traces—different yet strikingly similar—transform into delicate butterflies, revealing the dignity and uniqueness of each individual.

Kim Sinil × Idul — The Appreciating Body: Collecting Shadows

2022. 12. 22. THU 18:00 – 20:00
Sankyung Mulsan A46
Kim Sinil × Idul

'Kim Sinil’s three light sculptures—Mind, Belief, and Ideology—visualize the immaterial medium of light through the material form of sculpture. Drawing on the works’ inherent qualities of light and shadow, as well as the way their forms shift depending on the viewer’s position, improvisational artist Idul invites participants to become a work that holds both light and shadow themselves. Participants are encouraged to explore a new mode of appreciation by attempting to capture the shadow cast behind their own bodies. Mind, belief, ideology—can we truly grasp a shadow?

Goni × Idul — The Appreciating Body: See and Draw

2022. 12. 23. FRI 18:00 – 20:00
Sankyung Mulsan A46
Goni × Idul

Goni’s Wind Person began with a vivid sensation of wind felt after a yoga practice—an experience so intense it seemed to pass through the skin. The Appreciating Body: See and Draw the Wind explores the dual nature of wind, the element that inspired the work, and invites participants to draw the wind with their bodies through simple yoga movements. After awakening bodily sensations, the program poses a question: what kind of experience might an artwork offer when we encounter it through a body that has been newly attuned to its senses?

Singing Bowl Youth Group Therapy

2022. 12. 23. FRI 18:30 – 20:00
Workshop Room, B1, 2-1 Dangsan-ro 20-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Kim HyunJu

The singing bowl, a healing instrument used by ancient Tibetans whose name means “a singing vessel.” This session offers a moment to gently soothe hearts that may still carry unhealed pain from the Itaewon tragedy and other ongoing sorrows, through the resonant sounds of the singing bowl.
You are warmly invited to this group therapy session made possible through the volunteer contribution of singing bowl therapist Kim Hyunju.

Seven, A Field of Vision

2022. 12. 28. WED 19:00 – 20:30
Workshop Room, B1, 2-1 Dangsan-ro 20-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea

A hands-on workshop led by artist Kang Subin, whose work explores visual distortion and the limits of perception through the use of mirrors. Using mirrors as a medium, participants will investigate how they and others perceive objects, and experiment with how their own field of vision takes shape and unfolds.

Enneagram Exploration Workshop

2022. 12. 17. SAT 13:00 – 15:00
Workshop Room, B1, 2-1 Dangsan-ro 20-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Joo Hyemyung

“Am I truly the person I believe myself to be?” This session offers an opportunity to explore oneself more deeply through the Enneagram, a personality typology system that systematizes an ancient philosophy said to have been passed down in the Middle East since around 2500 BCE.
Join a journey of self-discovery guided by Joo Hyemyung, the Korean translator of The Wisdom of the Enneagram and director of the Mindfulness Research Institute.

Enneagram Communication Workshop

2022. 12. 17. SAT 15:30 – 17:30
Workshop Room, B1, 2-1 Dangsan-ro 20-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Joo Hyemyung

A workshop that explores and practices ways of communication based on the nine Enneagram personality types.
Through the Enneagram, participants will recognize that the ways we think, express ourselves, and make decisions differ from person to person. By learning and applying conversation skills suited to these differences, our communication can become far more flexible and understanding.
Become a master of communication under the guidance of Joo Hyemyung, Korean translator of The Wisdom of the Enneagram and director of the Mindfulness Research Institute.

1 0 ∞, A Mind That Exists Yet Doesn’t

[1st] 2022. 12. 17. SAT 13:00 ~ 14:00 (60m)
[2nd] 2022. 12. 17. SAT 15:00 ~ 16:00 (60m)
Sankyung Mulsan A46
Lee Hwasoo

The mind is not easily perceived, yet it does everything. The mind has always been there.
This program invites participants to attempt an encounter with a world that exists beyond the senses through the power of the self and the mind.
Guided by art therapist Lee Hwasu, and accompanied by the sound from Hong Ihyeonsuk’s work What You Are Touching Now, the session opens your imagination and senses, allowing you to feel textures and temperatures that lie beyond the immediate space. You may reach them, or you may not. But whatever the experience, it will remain with you as a warmth that prepares you for the next.
This workshop is a program in which art therapist Lee Hwasu reinterprets Hong Ihyeonsuk’s work What You Are Touching Now.

The Comfort of Toast

2022. 12. 18. SUN 12:00 ~ 14:00
Café “Irowoolri,” 96 Yangsan-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Goh Young

Food reveals the ways people live in vivid detail. Through food, we can read more deeply into the self, as well as the history and culture of the communities to which we belong.
You are warmly invited to a gathering where, together with the engaging storyteller and food literature researcher Ko Young, we savor a simple piece of toast—more deliciously and more meaningfully—while nourishing both body and heart.

Tteokbokki in Progress

2022. 12. 18. SUN 17:00 ~ 19:00
Café “Irowoolri,” 96 Yangsan-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Goh Young

Did you know that tteokbokki, now known as a nostalgic food and a beloved national snack, actually originated as a refined dish in the late Joseon Dynasty?
Over time, as Korea experienced liberation and war, tteokbokki became a representative street food that eased the hunger of day laborers, workers, and children, while also sustaining the livelihoods of those who migrated from rural areas to cities. Passing through the colonial period, it was reinterpreted as gungjung tteokbokki (royal court tteokbokki), and today it has become a Korean dish that visitors from around the world are encouraged to try.
You are warmly invited to a gathering where, together with food literature researcher Ko Young, we share stories about the history of tteokbokki and the many lives intertwined with it.

Thai Pop Listening Session

2022. 12. 18. SUN 15:00 – 16:00
Café “Irowoolri,” 96 Yangsan-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Jo Hyejin

Since 2018, artist Cho Hyejin has been collecting the handwritten scripts of migrant participants who do not use Korean as their native language and transforming them into typefaces through the project Migrating Type. Through this project, she creates a space for layered reflections on migration, immigration, and multicultural society.
On a Sunday afternoon, join artist Cho Hyejin and Thai migrant participants as they introduce Thai popular songs. While listening together, participants will experience Thai culture—both different from and subtly similar to Korean culture.

Your Heart – My Heart

[1st] 2022. 12. 18. SUN 14:00 ~ 15:30 (90m)
[2nd] 2022. 12. 18. SUN 16:30 ~ 18:00 (90m)
Workshop Room, B1, 2-1 Dangsan-ro 20-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Park Cheolhong

Have you ever found yourself agonizing over someone else’s feelings—something that seems impossible to fully understand? Here is a way to sense another person’s mind without overthinking. It begins with realizing that we are all connected.
Using the “empty chair technique” along with meditative approaches, facilitator Park Cheolhong invites participants to gently and naturally step into the inner world of “your heart”—that seemingly unknowable place—following his guidance like the flow of water.

Though Moonlight Penetrates The River

2021. 10. 20 - 11. 20.
Royal Building B1

"MINDBOOM is an art festival that actively connects the healing energy of art with the trends of the global meditation industry, offering opportunities for individuals to witness and alleviate their inner conflicts and contradictions. The first part of the festival, Even the Moonlight Pierces the Pond, is curated by installation artist Kim Shinil, who has long worked with the theme of the ""mind."" This exhibition features the works of artists Moon Seo-jin, Park Kwan-taek, Seo Yong-seon, Yoo Seung-ho, and Cho Hyun-seon. Inspired by the Buddhist teaching from the Diamond Sutra's Yabu Song: “Even when the bamboo shadow sweeps the steps, no dust stirs; even when the moonlight pierces the pond, there are no traces in the water (竹影掃階塵不動 月穿潭底水無痕),” Even the Moonlight Pierces the Pond explores the idea that, in a constantly changing world, the boundary of perception can be sensed, but its trace cannot be found—like the moonlight. The metaphors and abstractions of artists who remain in the unclear spaces, continuously attempting to see the world anew, reveal the possibility that art can transform humanity. Through the works of these five artists, the festival aims to share efforts toward the very nature of perception, which does not remain stagnant."

May Your Mind Unfold with Ease

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Oil Tank Culture Park, T6 Lecture Room
Lee Hwasoo

How far can a wish held in the heart reach? And how might such a deep longing take shape in reality?
A wish is more than a simple hope; it is the process of holding a quiet desire within, as naturally as breathing in. Inner wishes may feel uncertain and abstract, yet within that process we search for something with clearer form and presence.
In this session, participants give visual form to the conflicts and wishes within their minds, exploring and expressing their inner states through creative work. The power of a wish, accumulated over time, can bring about subtle shifts in reality and eventually emerge in visible ways within our lives.
May Your Mind Unfold with Ease is a journey that invites participants to experience how the quiet murmurs of the inner self can connect the present to the future.

Singing Bowl Sound Mind & Boditation

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Oil Tank Culture Park, T6 Rooftop Deck
Suh Hong

Experience Boditation (Body Tation), which brings awareness to the sensations of the body, and Meditation, which awakens the senses of the mind.
By connecting body and mind as one, this session offers a moment of meditation where you can remain fully present in the here and now, welcoming a quiet and still moment. Participants will explore various meditation techniques that help release physical fatigue and tension while letting go of mental burdens and restless thoughts.
Through observing yourself just as you are, you will discover ways to care for yourself. Accompanied by the resonant sound of singing bowls, you are invited to begin a gentle journey into your inner world.