Park Joowon

Park Joowon studied history and obtained her master’s degree in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is currently working as a curator at MMCA, Korea (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary art), also worked as an associate curator for 2020 Gwangju Biennale Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning and an advisory member for ‘2020 Gwangju Asia Forum’ organised by Gwangju Cultural Foundation. Based in Seoul, she has led one of MMCA’s long-term programmes, ‘Asia Focus’ since 2017 and she opened her first research project How little you know about me in 2018. In the second episode of the Asia project, Looking for Another Family in 2020, she has focused on opening a public platform for various groups of artists and local communities based in East and Southeast Asia through her on-site research. The recent projects she has curated, including MMCA Hyundai Motor Series – News from Nowhere, Freedom village in Seoul and Kanazawa (2021, 2022), Alternative languages – Asger Jorn, the artist as a social activist in Seoul (2019), Tilted Scenes – What do you see? in Venice (2019) and When Art Becomes Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists 1938–1965 in Seoul (2017). She also publishes her reviews on Artforum to introduce Korean contemporary art scenes.