{"id":122368,"date":"2026-08-17T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/122368\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:47:08","slug":"frieze-seoul-to-move-to-new-venue-from-2027-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/122368\/","title":{"rendered":"Frieze Seoul to move to new venue from 2027 – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frieze Seoul will move to a new venue, Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP)\u2014a curving, aluminium-clad cultural centre designed by Zaha Hadid\u2014for its 2027 edition. The move is taking place because the fair\u2019s current home, COEX, is being redeveloped.<\/p>\n

DDP, which opened in 2014, is situated across the Han river in the north of the city, about a mile away from Frieze House Seoul<\/a>, the permanent gallery space the fair established last year. The area is known for design, fashion and shopping; the building includes Korea\u2019s sole public design museum and a history museum. This year it is hosting an edition of Design Miami (1-6 September).<\/p>\n

DDP\u2019s exhibition halls will give the fair \u201ca more concentrated footprint\u201d according to a Frieze statement, and the 2027 edition \u201cwill be carefully edited as a result, giving each gallery and presentation greater prominence within a single focused environment\u201d.<\/p>\n

The concurrent art fair Kiaf Seoul will stay at COEX. However the two organisations will continue to work together, and visitors will still be able to buy a joint ticket. Sunghoon Lee, the president of the Galleries Association of Korea, which runs Kiaf, said in a statement: \u201cWe wish Frieze Seoul every success in its new venue and I look forward to continuing or strong partnership as we work together to further strengthen Seoul\u2019s position as a leading hub for contemporary art in Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n

COEX opened in 1979 and is undergoing a major redevelopment led by British firm Heatherwick Studios, which will add a modular fa\u00e7ade inspired by cabinets of curiosities, as well as renovating the interior spaces. It is due for completion in 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frieze Seoul will move to a new venue, Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP)\u2014a curving, aluminium-clad cultural centre designed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55115,620,17586,112,61797],"class_list":["post-122368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seoul","tag-art-fairs","tag-design","tag-frieze-seoul","tag-seoul","tag-zaha-hadid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}