The upcoming Do Ho Suh exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, spans three decades of the South Korean artist’s practice, from early drawings and videos to his celebrated fabric installations and explorations of portable architecture. Opening on August 27th, 2026, and running through February 9th, 2027, the retrospective marks Suh’s return to the museum nearly 13 years after he inaugurated the Seoul Box when MMCA Seoul opened in 2013.
The first comprehensive survey of Suh’s work in Korea, the exhibition traces his enduring preoccupation with home, migration, displacement and memory. Across monumental installations and intimate details, architecture becomes both physical and psychological—a structure that can be remembered, rebuilt and carried across borders.
Portable architecture and the idea of home
Suh is internationally recognised for transforming familiar architectural spaces into delicate, translucent forms. His fabric houses and passageways recreate rooms from places he has inhabited, turning them into portable structures that ask whether home is defined by an address or by the memories and identities attached to it.
Spanning 30 years, the exhibition brings early works into dialogue with recent and previously unseen pieces. Suh’s approach makes the house feel remarkably fragile and mobile, while retaining the proportions, details and traces that give each space its sense of intimacy.
