MMCA×LG OLED Series 2026

MMCA×LG OLED Series presents Have Many Dumb Fights Against Rock by Christine Sun Kim, a newly commissioned site-specific installation exploring language, sound, and communication. About MMCA×LG OLED Series is a mid-to-long-term partnership between the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea and LG Electronics that explores new possibilities in contemporary art. Each year, the project selects a single artist to present a newly commissioned site-specific work in Seoul Box, an iconic space at MMCA Seoul. Bringing together advanced display technology and artistic imagination, the series proposes a distinct mode of visual experience. The second edition in 2026 presents Have Many Dumb Fights Against Rock by Christine Sun Kim. Kim has developed a distinctive visual language that translates structures of language and sound into visual form. Through concise lines, graphic symbols, and text infused with humor, Kim translates sound, movement, dialogue, and tension into visual form, rendering perceptible how language structures relationships and power. The newly commissioned work actively engages both the architectural openness of Seoul Box and the spatial qualities of OLED display technology, expanding the artist's critical perspective on contemporary modes of communication into an immersive spatial experience. The exhibition title evokes cycles of conflict and unproductive argumentation. Kim frames the polarized conditions amplified by digital environments and online media as a sensation akin to "arguing endlessly with a rock." Here, the "rock" refers not only to those whose positions remain immovable but also to ourselves when we become entrenched in our own certainties and unable to compromise. It signifies recurring exchanges that fail to reach understanding, as well as the rigid structures that organize language and relationships. Within a space where language and its visualized forms intersect and continually shift, viewers are invited to experience communication not as a fixed outcome but as an evolving process through which difference and relationships are continually reconfigured. In doing so, the exhibition invites reflection on new possibilities for communication that enable coexistence with others without erasing difference. Artist Christine Sun Kim, a Berlin-based Korean American, has explored language, sound, and structures of communication across a diverse range of media, including drawing, moving image, and performance. She has gained significant recognition in the contemporary art world, including being ranked 34th on a 2025 British contemporary art magazine list of the most influential figures in international contemporary art. Her work invites viewers to reconsider the systems and conventions of communication that are often taken for granted. In recent years, her practice has expanded beyond individual drawings and performances into immersive spatial environments, transforming language itself into a three-dimensional experience. Read more Toggle Installation Digital Drawing Performance / Live Art