Lee Bul. Cyborg W5, 1999.
Installation View. Road Movie: Korean and Japanese Art after 1945, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea, 2026.
Road Movie: Art Between Korea and Japan Since 1945 | National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
May 14 – September 27, 2026
BB&M artist Lee Bul’s Cyborg W5 (1999), alongside 47 sculptures and drawings, is currently on view in Road Movie: Korean and Japanese Art after 1945, co-organized by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea and the Yokohama Museum of Art in Japan.
Commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Korea and Japan, the exhibition explores the trajectory of artistic exchange between the two countries from 1945 to the present through more than 200 works by 43 artists and collectives, including Nam June Paik, Lee Ufan, Tanaka Koki, Takamatsu Jiro, and Takashi Murakami.
Lee Bul’s Cyborg W5 is part of the artist’s seminal Cyborg series, which presents futuristic bodies formed through the fusion of human and machine. Combining idealized and fragmented forms, the work reflects both desire and anxiety surrounding technological modernity while proposing new possibilities for bodies that transcend fixed boundaries of gender and humanity.
