Strolling Through Korean Gardens
The Korean Cultural Centre UK, in partnership with the Korea Heritage Service, is pleased to announce Strolling Through Korean Gardens, a new exhibition that reimagines Korea’s rich garden heritage through a contemporary lens. Opening on 11 September 2025, the exhibition offers UK audiences a rare opportunity to encounter the philosophy, beauty, and poetic sensibility of traditional Korean gardens through digital technologies, sensory environments, and interdisciplinary storytelling.
Through large-scale digital projections, immersive soundscapes by composer Jang Young-gyu, and multisensory environments, the exhibition brings to life celebrated gardens such as Soswaewon, Bokildo, and the Secret Garden of Changdeokgung Palace. Visitors can also experience the key aesthetic concept of Chakyung (“borrowed scenery”) in a recreated pavilion space, and reflect on gardens as places of ritual, memory, and imagination.
Featuring contemporary works by Ellie Kyungran Heo and Jihae Hwang alongside literary reflections such as Korean Tea Classics, the exhibition presents the Korean garden not only as a historical legacy but also as a living source of artistic and philosophical inspiration.
This exhibition offers a rare pause in the flow of daily life, inviting visitors to reflect on where nature and art meet.
For further press information and a selection of press images about the exhibition, please contact Jaemin Cha, Curator on jaemin.cha@kccuk.org.uk.
