On October 20, South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) launched the Korea Artist Prize 2021 exhibition, on view until March 20, 2022. Co-organized by the SBS Foundation, the five-month-long group show features works and projects by the competition’s four finalists. Kim Sangin’s presentation “Lamp in video game use real electricity” looks into the impact of virtual-reality platforms on the real world; Bang Jeong-A’s large-scale paintings are featured in “Heumul-heumul,” which examines political and ecological systems; Oh Min’s five-channel multimedia installation Heterophony of Heterochrony (2021) offers an immersive experience of sound and lights; and Choi Chan Sook’s four-channel video installation qbit to adam (2021) connects the history of mining with cryptocurrency mining. The winner, who will receive a cash prize of KRW 10 million (USD 8,500) along with a gold plaque, will be announced in the first half of 2022.

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