Antony Gormley: Inextricable Exhibitions Not to Miss During Seoul Art Week 2025

By Elisa Carollo 

Antony Gormley is set for a major moment in Seoul this September with a two-part exhibition opening during art week across Thaddaeus Ropac and White Cube, alongside his ongoing show "Drawing on Space" at Museum SAN in Wonju, which runs until 30 November 2025. Long celebrated in Asia and particularly among South Korean collectors, Gormley has used sculpture to explore the body as both a site and a nexus of relationships between the individual and the world, pursuing a sustained meditation on humanity’s relationship with space, time and the environment. For his Seoul debut, he confronts the reality that more than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, examining the entanglement between the human body and the urban environment, with his solitary figures inviting viewers to refine their own physicality and spatial awareness while reflecting on scale, position and our place within a broader web of relations and interdependencies. At Thaddaeus Ropac, works from the “Extended Strapworks,” “Cast Knot” and “Open Block” series probe internal physical states and their relationship to architectural space, while White Cube presents pieces from the “Blockwork,” “Bunker” and “Beamer” series, which reconfigure the body through the forms and logic of the built world.