Pierre Huyghe’s living systems

Leeum Museum of Art in South Korea presents Liminal, the first solo exhibition in Asia by Pierre Huyghe, running from February 27th to July 6th, 2025. The exhibition explores the artist’s decade-long investigation into hybrid realities, where human and non-human entities, artificial intelligence, and biological life forms interact in unpredictable ways. Co-commissioned with Punta della Dogana of the Pinault Collection, Liminal features 12 works, including new pieces and renowned earlier projects.

The exhibition’s title refers to a transitional state where the unimaginable can emerge, dissolving the boundaries between fiction and reality. Huyghe’s works function as ever-evolving ecosystems, where forms, languages, and meanings continuously shift. Among the highlights is Liminal (2024–ongoing), which presents a faceless human figure endlessly wandering through a simulated space, embodying an impossible human condition.

Another key work, Idiom (2024–ongoing), introduces a proto-language developed in real time through human vocalization and machine learning, conveyed by masked, silent figures. Meanwhile, Camata (2024–ongoing) reinterprets a ritual, as a machine interacts with a human skeleton found in the Atacama Desert, producing a film that continuously evolves through live data collection. These works invite viewers into a space where intelligence—both artificial and organic—coexists and transforms.

Curated by Sungwon Kim in collaboration with Anne Stenne, Liminal is supported by Bottega Veneta, which has designed costumes for Idiom, further bridging the intersection of fashion, technology, and art. This partnership follows the brand’s previous support of Huyghe’s exhibition at Punta della Dogana in 2024. At Leeum Museum of Art, Huyghe’s enigmatic world unfolds as a site of perpetual evolution, where new subjectivities emerge and dissolve in real time.