To coincide with Frieze Seoul this week, the Ho-Am Museum of Art, operated by the Samsung Foundation of Culture, presents Louise Bourgeois: The Evanescent and the Eternal. This landmark exhibition marks the artist’s first museum-level solo presentation in Korea in twenty-five years, bringing together more than 110 works that span the full arc of her extraordinary career.

Born in Paris in 1911 and later based in New York until her death in 2010, Louise Bourgeois is celebrated as one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Over the course of seven decades, she experimented across media, installation, performance, drawing, painting, and printmaking, but it is sculpture that has become most synonymous with her practice. Whether through intimate works on paper or vast, room-sized environments, Bourgeois created art as a means of grappling with deeply personal emotions. Her oeuvre transforms memory, love, fear, and abandonment into visceral forms, making the private profoundly universal.

The exhibition’s title, The Evanescent and the Eternal, is drawn from Bourgeois’s own writings and reflects the psychological dualities that animate her work: mother and father, conscious and unconscious, masculine and feminine. Central to her artistic vocabulary are the complex dynamics of her family relationships.

With its breadth and depth, the exhibition offers Korean audiences an unprecedented opportunity to encounter Bourgeois’s artistic legacy anew, tracing the ways in which her profoundly intimate struggles resonate on a universal scale.

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Image: Louise Bourgeois, *The Couple*, 2003, Aluminum, 365.1 x 200 x 109.9 cm, Photo: Jonathan Leijonhufvud, © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by SACK, Korea.