The Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul will open the exhibition "Inside Other Spaces" on May 5, featuring 11 installation artists from Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The show reconstructs full-scale environments from 1956 to 1976, including Korean artist Jung Kang-ja's "Incorporeal Exhibition" (1970), which was forcibly dismantled by the Korean government and is being rebuilt for the first time. The exhibition previously appeared at Munich's Haus der Kunst, Rome's Maxxi, and Hong Kong's M+, with each venue expanding its scope.
This exhibition matters because it corrects a historical erasure of women as pioneers of installation art, a genre that was largely built by female artists before it had a formal name. By recovering ephemeral works through four years of cross-institutional research, the show argues that Asian women's contributions are essential to understanding contemporary art. It also addresses the "double erasure" of women artists whose works were dismantled and whose histories were later rewritten to center on men, making this a significant feminist corrective to art history.