Seoul’s new Centre Pompidou Hanwha museum opens next month—can it live up to expectations?

Centre Pompidou Hanwha in Seoul opens to the public on 4 June as a four-year partnership between the Hanwha Foundation of Culture and Paris’s Centre Pompidou, marking the Pompidou’s second branch in Asia after its 2019 collaboration with Shanghai’s West Bund Museum. The museum occupies 11,000 sq. m across four floors inside the Hanwha Group’s 63 Building, and will present two touring exhibitions per year from the Pompidou collection. Its first exhibition, “The Cubists: Inventing Modern Vision,” runs until 4 October and includes 90-plus works by 40 artists, with attention to historically sidelined women artists such as Sonia Delaunay, Natalia Goncharova, Suzanne Duchamp, and María Blanchard. French President Emmanuel Macron toured the museum on 3 April, and the opening coincides with the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and the Republic of Korea.

Read the full article at The Art Newspaper - International art news and events