Louise Bourgeois: The Evanescent and the Eternal

"This marks the first major museum exhibition on Bourgeois in Korea in 25 years and features iconic pieces from the Leeum collection, including the monumental spider sculpture Maman (1999) and the evocative Cell XI (Portrait) (2000), alongside more than 110 works from throughout the artist’s career. The exhibition will also offer a glimpse into Bourgeois’s mind through a selection of her personal writings, providing audiences with a deeper understanding of her inner world and artistic motivations."

Louise Bourgeois, Cell (Black Days), 2006. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York. Photo: Christopher Burke

GIRLS. On Boredom, Rebellion and Being In-Between

"GIRLS explores the beauty and complexity of girlhood. How has girlhood been represented? How is it remembered? And how does the idea of ‘the girl’ continue to shape visual culture and fashion?"

This group exhibition includes footage and garments from Bourgeois's 1992 performance She Lost It and other archival materials.

Louise Bourgeois, Le Cannet, France, 1922. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York

Louise Bourgeois: Gathering Wool

"Gathering Wool explores the artist's complex relationship to abstraction through a series of late sculptures, reliefs and works on paper, many of which have never been exhibited before. These will be installed alongside a selection of earlier works to illuminate the consistency of Bourgeois’s themes and her development of a symbolic abstract language."

Related events include the US Premiere of ‘Louise Bourgeois: The Rage to Understand’ a documentary film by Marie-Ève de Grave. See here for more.

Louise Bourgeois, Gathering Wool, 1990. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York. Photo: Peter Bellamy