Frieze Seoul 2026 03.09.2026 — 05.09.2026

STPI returns to Frieze Seoul 2026 with a solo booth of new works by renowned Korean artist Do Ho Suh, coinciding with his major retrospective at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA). The presentation marks the latest chapter in a creative collaboration between Do Ho Suh and STPI, spanning almost 20 years.

MMCA's retrospective features a significant number of works developed during Suh's residencies at STPI, the result of the institution's pivotal role in his print and paper works. Moreover, STPI will present a series of public programmes during the exhibition's opening weekend, offering audiences rare insight into the creative exchanges behind this enduring partnership.

Known internationally for his immersive fabric installations and sculptures, Suh's practice explores ideas of home, memory and displacement through meticulous reconstructions of spaces he has inhabited. Recent major exhibitions at Tate Modern (2025), Art Sonje Center (2024) and National Galleries Scotland (2022) have reaffirmed his position as one of the most significant contemporary artists today.

From his early experiments in thread drawings during his residency in 2009, STPI’s legacy of innovation has shaped Suh’s print and paper practice, culminating in a diverse body of work which transcends the limits. Supported by the technical rigour and expertise of the Workshop at STPI, Suh continues to formulate new approaches to distil ideas of transience and longing in his works, which have been featured prominently in institutional shows around the world.

In parallel with MMCA's major exhibition of the artist, STPI's solo presentation at Frieze Seoul will debut a selection of new thread drawings created during Suh's 2026 residency. Highlights include the monumental works Breathing Home (2025) and Haunting Home (2026), alongside Spectators (2026), a new body of intimate works.

The architecture of past and present homes is a recurring motif in Suh's works, acting as metaphors for the psychological space of home. In Breathing Home (2025), Suh recreates the facade of his New York apartment building with his recognisable thread drawing technique developed with STPI. Multi-coloured lines of threads extend from the facade and gather in wispy masses behind the facade, suggesting the tangled nature of remembering. These unravelling threads visualise the ephemerality of connection, speaking to Suh’s experience of dislocation and displacement across his homes in Seoul and New York.

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