Antony Gormley: ‘Everything I make now is a surprise to me’ The British sculptor talks about his upcoming exhibitions in Seoul and the US
By Jaeyong Park
Born in London in 1950, Antony Gormley spent three years in his early twenties studying Buddhism in India and Sri Lanka, an experience that shaped his belief that the body is our first habitat.
Gormley, who lives and works in London, is perhaps best known for public works such as Angel of the North (1988) and Another Place (2005), where 100 cast-iron figures face the sea. His practice has evolved from the early lead body-cases, using his own body as material, to recent digital experiments that fragment and reconstruct the human form through architectural geometry.
It is somewhat unexpected that an artist of Gormley’s stature, with his deep Asian connections, is only now having his first solo exhibition in Seoul. This September, coinciding with Frieze Seoul, he presents Inextricable at White Cube and Thaddaeus Ropac simultaneously, exploring how urban infrastructure shapes consciousness in cities—where over half of humanity now lives. Just weeks later, his first major US museum survey opens at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
The Seoul exhibitions follow his ongoing collaboration with Tadao Ando at Museum SAN, where their permanent installation Ground (2025) continues his investigation of how space and time animate the human form.
