Exhibitions

SIKYUNG SUNG: SEESAW

17 May - 28 Jun 2025 BB&M is pleased to present SEESAW, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Sikyung Sung, among the most talented of the young generation of Korean painters working today. As suggested by the title, the exhibition reveals the artist working through the dualities and contradictions arising from the act of painting in an age of instant and infinite iteration of images. Read more

PAPER MATTERS

21 Mar - 30 Apr 2025 BB&M is pleased to present Paper Matters, showcasing works on paper by seven artists, including internationally renowned contemporary artists Lee Bul, Bae Young-whan, and Minouk Lim; prominent emerging painter Sikyung Sung; and New York-based artists Alex Dodge, Miko Veldkamp, and Tyson Reeder. It will feature works that highlight the materiality, spatiality, and expansive potential of paper as a medium. Read more

DAYGLO NATION

2 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 “Dayglo Nation” brings together new and recent work by Katherine Bernhardt, Alex Dodge, and Tyson Reeder, three artists who share an affinity for delineating the shifting, ephemeral surfaces of contemporary American experience. Informal and playful, their visual language of synthetic palettes, swaths of flat colors, and juxtaposition of unlikely formal elements—incorporating the iconography of consumer culture and mass media—mirrors the vibrant, dizzying sensation of American life now while also nimbly engaging with the weighty legacy of modern painting, extending from Pop and Color Field to Fauvism. Read more

MINOUK LIM: MEMENTO MOIRÉ

24 Aug - 12 Oct 2024 BB&M is pleased to present Memento Moiré, a solo exhibition of new work by Minouk Lim, the artist’s first gallery show in her native Korea since 2011. Over a career spanning nearly three decades, Lim has established herself as one of the most acclaimed contemporary Korean artists on the international stage. Delving into themes of history, memory, and myth within the context of a turbulent Korean, and more broadly Asian, modernity, her work has been exhibited in museums throughout the world and is part of the permanent collections of such institutions as Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Tate Modern. Read more

LEE BUL: PRINTS

21 May - 15 Jun 2024 BB&M is pleased to announce an exhibition of prints by Lee Bul. Adapting the themes and visual language of her oeuvre to this medium for the first time, the artist presents five new series of works on paper created at the STPI Creative Workshop, Singapore, that explore innovative possibilities in screen- and foil printing techniques, as well as the use of such unconventional materials as copper powder and iron filings. These works continue to elaborate on the forms and concepts in her renowned biomorphic sculptures and architectural installations that delve into the contrapuntal interplay between beauty and decay, technology and failure, utopian dreams and historical trauma. Read more

BAE YOUNG-WHAN: SO NEAR SO FAR

21 Mar - 4 May 2024 BB&M is pleased to present So Near So Far, a solo exhibition of new work by Bae Young-whan. Recognized for a practice that melds a keen awareness of vernacular beauty to neo-conceptual strategies, Bae is a key figure in the influential, albeit loosely defined, post-minjung generation of Korean artists who emerged in the late 1990s grappling with the legacies of Korea’s turbulent modernity. Often making use of humble, mundane elements (discarded material from construction sites, broken bottles, sentimental song lyrics), his art is attuned to the ephemeral surfaces of lived experience as well as the deeper structures of feeling that underlie Korean society. Read more

UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION

30 Jan - 9 Mar 2024 Unsentimental Education offers a glimpse into the practices of four contemporary Korean artists, all men in their thirties, who have garnered increasing critical attention in recent years for their work in the mediums of painting and moving image. Putting an oblique spin on “sentimental education,” alluding to the 19th-century Flaubert novel which the author called “the moral history of the men of my generation,” this exhibition sheds light on the sensibilities and aesthetic strategies of an emerging generation negotiating the contours of seismic social and cultural shifts, while traversing the increasingly permeable divide between the real and the virtual, figuration and abstraction, lived experience and symbolic sublimation. Read more

MIKO VELDKAMP: POSTCARDS FROM HOME

4 Nov - 16 Dec 2023 BB&M is pleased to present New York-based painter Miko Veldkamp’s first solo exhibition in Asia. Veldkamp’s work melds his Surinamese, Dutch, and New York past and present experiences together, drawing on elements both private and public, in art history, family photo albums, folklore, landscape, and nature. His dreamy, mesmerizing canvases depict psychological spaces suffused with colonial histories and conflicting yet intertwined cultural narratives exploring shifting notions of personal authenticity at the intersection of the North-South and East-West cultural axes. Read more

LEE BUL

26 Aug - 14 Oct 2023 BB&M is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition of Lee Bul, which continues the artist’s inquiry into the central subject of her oeuvre over the past two decades: the legacy of the historical avant-garde as it intertwines with utopian aspirations and failures in the formation of the modern world. Read more

ALEX DODGE: PERSONAL DAY

1 Apr - 20 May 2023 BB&M is pleased to present its first solo exhibition of Alex Dodge, whose vibrant, tactile paintings depict uncanny figures and scenes that hover between the digital and the analog, the real and the imaginary. Read more

SUNROOM

4 Feb - 11 Mar 2023 SUNROOM , opening February 4 and on view until March 11, 2023, brings together five young Korean painters gaining increasing attention with their distinctively personal modes of visual expression. Read more

JEONGSU WOO: PALINDROME

5 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 BB&M is pleased to present Palindrome , a solo exhibition of new works by Jeongsu Woo opening on November 5 and running through December 17, 2022. Among the most closely watched young Korean painters working today, Woo mines motifs and signifiers from various temporal and cultural strata. Read more

MAGNETIC FIELDS

27 Aug - 8 Oct 2022 Magnetic Fields marks the launch of the fall season at BB&M with a showcase of new works by contemporary Korean artists represented by the gallery. Read more

DREAM LIFE

21 May - 2 Jul 2022 Organized by the renowned curator and critic Dan Cameron, Dream Life brings together five artists who, each in his own distinctive way, are devising new modes of representation in American painting today. Read more

COLD PITCH

19 Feb - 2 Apr 2022 BB&M is pleased to present COLD PITCH, an exhibition featuring key works by four young artists, Jeongsu Woo, Sinae Yoo, Hyangro Yoon, and Goen Choi, who have forged their own distinctive artistic visions in the fast-changing environment of contemporary Korean art. Read more