ACC to Operate All Seven Exhibition Halls Simultaneously for the Summer Season

"Enjoy World-Class Artworks with Docent-Led Tours"
Visitors Flock to the ACC to Escape the Summer Heat

The Asia Culture Center (ACC) announced on July 2 that, in celebration of the summer season, it will operate all seven of its exhibition halls simultaneously, including Complex Exhibition Halls 1 through 6 and the newly opened Hall 7—a dedicated space for local artists that launched in March.

ACC Complex Exhibition Hall 2. Provided by ACC

This is a rare occurrence since the opening of the ACC, with all seven exhibition halls welcoming visitors at the same time. Visitors to the ACC can enjoy world-class art exhibitions and also take advantage of professional docent-led tours, making the center a popular destination for citizens looking to escape the summer heat.

First, at Complex Exhibition Hall 1, the ACC Foundation’s exhibition, "Silence, That Quiet Cry_Polish Posters," will be on display until July 5. Originally scheduled to end on June 21, the exhibition has been extended due to its popularity, drawing a total of 15,000 paid visitors. The exhibition features over 180 representative works and more than 80 sketches, which metaphorically express social messages despite the strict censorship of Stalinism in the 1950s and 1960s.

At Complex Exhibition Hall 2, the ACC’s largest film exhibition, "ACC Film & Video—Asian Devices," will run until September 27. Thirty Asian experimental film directors and video artists will present 64 works, including director Bong Joon-ho’s college film "White Man" and a previously unreleased work by Han Ok-hee, who led Korea’s first collective of female experimental filmmakers. The exhibition also features a recreated Gwangju Theater screening room and video works addressing the May 18 Democratization Movement.

Complex Exhibition Halls 3 and 4 will feature the "2026 ACC Thematic Exhibition—Cosmo Asia People" until August 23. In this era of great change, marked by the climate crisis, war, and advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, 31 artists or teams from eight Asian countries will participate, re-examining the meaning of humanity and community through a total of 102 works. On July 4, a live reading performance, "Reading Screening," will take place, followed by a panel discussion on August 5, where 10 scholars from six Asian countries will discuss artistic subjectivity.

At Complex Exhibition Hall 5, the media art exhibition "Memory Transmitters: Machines Called Media" will run until July 19, exploring memory culture driven by media. Eight artist teams will showcase 10 types of media art. On the third basement level, Complex Exhibition Hall 6 will host the international touring exhibition "Jameel Prize: Moving Images"—jointly organized with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in the UK and Art Jameel in the United Arab Emirates—until August 23. The exhibition showcases contemporary art and VR works inspired by Islamic culture.

In Hall 7, newly established this year, the third edition of "2026 ACC NEWST," which supports the creative activities of artists in the Gwangju and Jeonnam regions, will feature Nahie Yang’s "Useless but Beautiful" until July 19. Around 20 works depicting cityscapes using corrugated cardboard will be displayed. Starting July 30, Younggi Seo’s exhibition "The Remaining Night" will take over in a relay format.

Sangwook Kim, Director of the Asia Culture Center, stated, "It is meaningful that all exhibition halls, including the newly opened Hall 7, are now welcoming visitors." He added, "We hope you enjoy culture and romance at the cool ACC during the hot summer months."

Meanwhile, in the second half of this year, the ACC also plans to present a wide array of citizen-participatory events, including the large-scale immersive exhibition "ACC Vision: Kim Young-eun," which utilizes a 100-channel speaker system, the "ACC X Music Festival," the urban reading event "Reading ACC," and "Asia Culture Week," a major cultural and artistic festival representing Asia.

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