Do Ho Suh takes over Tate Modern with his first major solo show in London in over two decades. Running until October 19th, 2025, this monumental return to the city explores the artist’s lifelong journey through themes of memory, displacement, and the evolving meaning of home. The Do Ho Suh exhibition invites visitors on an immersive exploration of Suh’s emotional and architectural landscapes, spanning Seoul, New York, London, and Berlin. At the heart of the Do Ho Suh exhibition is Nest/s (2024), a haunting, full-scale corridor crafted from translucent polyester, seamlessly merging doorways and thresholds from the artist’s various homes into one continuous, ethereal passage.
Another striking installation, Perfect Home: London, Horsham, New York, Berlin, Providence, Seoul (2024), brings together fragments of domestic life—light switches, sockets, towel rails—woven into a tent-like form that evokes the intimacy of home. In Rubbing/Loving: Seoul Home (2013–22), Do Ho Suh honors his childhood home with graphite rubbings, blending archival documentation with a deeply personal, tactile connection. The Do Ho Suh exhibition also includes two poignant video works—Robin Hood Gardens (2018) and Dong In Apartments (2022)—which capture housing complexes before their demolition, underscoring the fragility of home in the face of urban transformation.
Do Ho Suh’s exploration extends to works on paper, thread drawings, and sculptures that delve deeper into the body’s relationship to architecture and the passage of time. Blending traditional Korean techniques with digital tools, the artist navigates the tension between permanence and impermanence. As Do Ho Suh explains, “The space I’m interested in is not only physical, but intangible, metaphorical, and psychological.” This Do Ho Suh exhibition invites viewers to step into the heart of memory—stitched, rubbed, scanned, and reimagined.
Walk the House is supported by Genesis and Tate Members, showcasing new and site-specific works created especially for this Do Ho Suh exhibition. Through this journey, artist offers a profound reflection on the concept of home, a space that is both lived in and reimagined.
Rubbing/Loving Project: Seoul Home, 2013-2022
Installation view at MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AUSTRALIA, Sydney, Australia
Photography by JESSICA MAURER, courtesy of DO HO SUH
Home Within Home (1/9 Scale) 2025, installation view, The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House
Courtesy of DO HO SUH, LEHMANN MAUPIN New York, Seoul and London and VICTORIA MIRO
Photography courtesy of TATE
Nest/s, 2024. Courtesy of DO HO SUH and LEHMANN MAUPIN New York, Seoul and London
Photography by JEON TAEG SU
Nest/s, 2024, installation view, The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House
Courtesy of DO HO SUH, LEHMANN MAUPIN New York, Seoul and London and VICTORIA MIRO
Photography courtesy of TATE
Nest/s, 2024. Courtesy of DO HO SUH and LEHMANN MAUPIN New York, Seoul and London
Photography by JEON TAEG SU
