IASPIS Expert visit in Stockholm 13–18 May 2025

Sungah Serena Choo, Independent Curator and Writer, Seoul.

Sungah Serena Choo

Sungah Serena Choo is a curator and writer whose work is engaged with the dynamics of contemporary artistic practices, spatial politics, and the ecosystem of independent spaces. Her curatorial focuses on the perspectives of materiality and the discursive of sculptural attitudes. She is attentive to the shifting conditions of artistic production and has actively worked with artists. Choo has been committed to discovering emerging voices and supporting the trajectories of mid-career artists, often positioning her curatorial work at the intersection of artistic experimentation and critical discourse. Her practice reflects a sustained interest in how these artists respond to reframe narrative structures and reshape institutional frameworks and transnational systems of circulation.

Currently working as an independent curator, she was formerly a curator at Leeum Museum of Art, and served as assistant curator at Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, and curatorial assistant at Seoul Museum of Art and Kumho Museum of Art. She has curated exhibitions, commissioned site-specific projects, and advised discursive and research-based programs across a variety of institutional and independent platforms. These include independent spaces such as Amado Art Space, Insa Art Space, d/p, N/A, Perigee Gallery, and Art Space Boan, among others where she has developed long-standing collaborations with artists committed to alternative forms of cultural production.

Her practice is deeply informed by questions around how contemporary art can intervene in audience imaginaries, and how curatorial strategies might generate contingent spaces for reflection, resistance and community making within and beyond institutional boundaries.

In collaboration with the Swedish institute and OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway.