history
2022
Online project Wrap Around the World, in collaboration with Korea Foundation and 57STUDIO
Nam June Paik in the Groove co-organized by Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
Special exhibitions Archaeology of Avantgarde, The Last Consummate Second, Nam June Paik Super Baroque, Field Memory, and The Consultant
Random Access Hall opened, Performance Opera Charlotteronique
Paik’s 90th anniversary all-year project “My Jubilee ist Unverhemmet”
2021
Online archive platform Paik’s Video Study
Online project Kind Neighbors (with Arko Art Center and Art Sonje Center)
Exhibitions Humor Has It, Open Codes in collaboration (Lithuania, Germany)
The Future of Silence awarded “Exhibition of the Year 2020” by The Korean Museum Association
2020
Selected as one of the seven best public museums in Korea by MCST
7th Nam June Paik Art Center Prize to CAMP
AR Guide, VR App relating to Paik’s works and ’63 exhibition
Online exhibitions in collaboration (Shanghai, Karlsruhe, Berlin, Geneva, Basel, Rotterdam, Copenhagen, Antwerp, Montreal)
Closed due to covid-19 (Feb-Jul, Aug-Sep)
2019.9
Seong Eun Kim, fourth director appointed
2019
Memorabilia relocated, Black Box and Fluxroom opened
2018
Random Access, Young Artists Project, launched
6th Nam June Paik Art Center Prize to Trevor Paglen
Three Rooms in collaboration with ZKM Karlsruhe and Chronus Art Center Shanghai
#Art #Commons #NamJunePaik, #Metamuseum #Project, Nam June Paik Art Center’s 10th anniversary exhibition and public programs
Paik-Abe Correspondence published
2016
5th Nam June Paik Art Center Prize to Blast Theory
Wrap Around the Time, Paik’s 10th memorial anniversary exhibition
2015. 3.
Jinsuk Suh, third director appointed
2014
4th Nam June Paik Art Center Prize to Haroon Mirza
Education for Paperless Society, an educational program series launched
2013
Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Resounds, a special exhibition of Edinburgh International Festival, held in University of Edinburgh, UK
2012
Nostalgia is an Extended Feedback, Paik’s 80th anniversary exhibition and public programs
3rd Nam June Paik Art Center Prize to Doug Aitken
1st interview book Wulf Herzogenrath published
Winning the grand prize of Monthly Art for the exhibition X-Sound
2011. 4. 22.
Nam June Paik Library opened
2011. 3.
Manu Park, second director appointed
2010
Nam June Paik: From Horse to Christo, Korean anthology of Paik’s writings published
2nd Nam June Paik Art Center Prize to Bruno Latour
2009
1st edition of the international symposium series Gift of Nam June Paik
1st issue of NJP Reader published
2008. 10. 8.
Inaugural festival Now Jump in conjunction with Nam June Paik Art Center’s grand opening
1st Nam June Paik Art Center Prize to Seung-taek Lee, Eun-me Ahn, Ceal Foyer and Robert Adrian X
2008. 3.
Youngchul Lee, first director appointed
2006. 5. 9.
Ground-breaking ceremony
2003
German architects Kirsten Schemel and Marina Stankovic selected in the international competition for the museum’s building design
2002
Agreement made with Nam June Paik Estate to purchase 67 artworks, 2,285 items of video archives, and the whole studio of Broome St. New York (Memorabilia materials) Committee organized by Gyeonggi-do and Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation for the new museum Construction site settled, Paik signed the site plan: “Where Nam June Paik Lives on”
2001
MOU made between Gyeonggi-do and Nam June Paik