Spoonful More of Happiness
This exhibition presents 49 works of painting and video from the OAR Contemporary Art Museum’s collection, spanning from Korean Dansaekhwa to contemporary practices from both Korea and abroad. The 29 participating artists range from leading figures of Korean modern art—such as Lee Ufan, Seobo Park, Ha Chong-Hyun, and Bae Lee—to internationally acclaimed contemporaries including Julian Opie, Yayoi Kusama, and Kohei Nawa. By bringing together different eras and styles, the exhibition offers not a single linear art-historical narrative but a landscape where diverse sensations and interpretations coexist.
The title Spoonful More of Happiness reflects on the essential value of art. Beyond the simple transmission of visual information, art acts directly upon our psyche and emotions, helping us lighten the burdens of daily life and restore the rhythm of our minds. Standing before a work of art, visitors may experience a pause—a moment of breath and contemplation—that allows them to regain balance and relief. In this way, art becomes a “small occasion to recover happiness” within everyday life.
Most importantly, situated within the unique context of the world’s first “Museum with a Royal Tomb View,” the quiet landscape meeting with contemporary painting generates a resonance where past and present, tradition and contemporaneity, converge. The message of this exhibition is simple yet clear: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Art invites us to set aside the weight of life, if only for a moment, and to reinhabit the present with renewed vitality.

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Spoonful More of Happiness
This exhibition presents 49 works of painting and video from the OAR Contemporary Art Museum’s collection, spanning from Korean Dansaekhwa to contemporary practices from both Korea and abroad. The 29 participating artists range from leading figures of Korean modern art—such as Lee Ufan, Seobo Park, Ha Chong-Hyun, and Bae Lee—to internationally acclaimed contemporaries including Julian Opie, Yayoi Kusama, and Kohei Nawa. By bringing together different eras and styles, the exhibition offers not a single linear art-historical narrative but a landscape where diverse sensations and interpretations coexist.
The title Spoonful More of Happiness reflects on the essential value of art. Beyond the simple transmission of visual information, art acts directly upon our psyche and emotions, helping us lighten the burdens of daily life and restore the rhythm of our minds. Standing before a work of art, visitors may experience a pause—a moment of breath and contemplation—that allows them to regain balance and relief. In this way, art becomes a “small occasion to recover happiness” within everyday life.
Most importantly, situated within the unique context of the world’s first “Museum with a Royal Tomb View,” the quiet landscape meeting with contemporary painting generates a resonance where past and present, tradition and contemporaneity, converge. The message of this exhibition is simple yet clear: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Art invites us to set aside the weight of life, if only for a moment, and to reinhabit the present with renewed vitality.

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At the threshold between reality and the unreal, we are invited to see nature and the Earth anew.
The immersive media installations of the artist duo Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho traverse the boundaries between human and non-human, fact and fiction, through a speculative ecological universe. Their works unsettle perception and sensation, guiding us into a finely crafted visual realm where time and space transcend the ordinary.

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