Suwon Media Center Hosts 'Suwon Painted in Light' Exhibition

Suwon Media Center under the Suwon Culture Foundation (CEO Kwak Do-yong) will operate a school collaborative media convergence content planning exhibition titled "2026 Suwon Painted in Light – AI Digital, Drawing Artists" from the 14th to the 30th with Kyung Hee University's Graduate School of Media Entertainment.

This exhibition has been prepared to provide graduate students with practical creative experience by connecting the university's research and creative capabilities with the media center's infrastructure, allowing them to plan and implement works in an actual exhibition space.

The most distinctive feature of this collaboration is that students' ideas do not remain in classrooms or studios but are realized as artworks in cultural spaces where citizens gather.

This exhibition features nine multinational media artists (Yu Dong-seok, Lui Uen Wa, Niu Yingxue, Yang Linfei, Yu Su-min, Jung Sung-gyeong, Song Xiaojia, Joo Si-won, Huynh Thi Van An) from Kyung Hee University's graduate program, including students from South Korea, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and China, as well as faculty members (Department Chair Lee Eun-hye and Professors Kim Bo-sung, Kang Gyeong-ho, and Kim Na-rae). Utilizing the hanok (traditional Korean house) space at Suwon Media Center, a total of 12 works across five concepts will be planned, produced, and exhibited.

Through inter-institutional cooperation, students will have opportunities for field-oriented project education, including showcasing their works in actual exhibition spaces and receiving feedback from visitors. Suwon Media Center will also move away from relying on outsourced production to secure content, instead utilizing the university's creative research and production capabilities to present experimental content reflecting the latest technology to citizens and tourists.

This exhibition focuses on expanding Suwon's history, culture, and local artists' creative works by combining them with media technology into new content.

The collaboration utilizes works by artist Choi Kyung-ja, who has been active in Suwon, expanding the symbols, emotions, textures, and movements contained in the artist's paintings into media art. Centering on five concepts including "Gasina," "Tiger and Magpie," "Ceramics and Dancing People," "Mirror and Ramie Patchwork," and "Painting in Color," diverse works will be presented. By analyzing the images, colors, narratives, and spatiality of the works and combining them with digital technology, new forms of content are created by adding light, movement, video, and spatial production to static paintings.

An official from the Suwon Culture Foundation stated, "This project is a collaboration model where public institutions' spaces and infrastructure, universities' creative talent, and local artists' cultural resources come together to create new content. We will expand inter-institutional cooperation to provide students with opportunities to showcase their creative works to citizens, secure new content for the center, and enable more citizens to experience local artists' works through media technology."