{"id":463002,"date":"2026-05-27T18:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/463002\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:19:13","slug":"centre-pompidou-hanwha-opens-in-seoul-ahead-of-june-4-public-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/463002\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre Pompidou Hanwha opens in Seoul ahead of June 4 public debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Centre Pompidou Hanwha<\/a> held its opening ceremony on May 19 at the base of the 63 Building on Yeouido Island in Seoul<\/a>. The 108,000-square-foot museum<\/a> opens to the public on June 4. It is the Centre Pompidou\u2019s third international satellite<\/a>, joining outposts in Shanghai<\/a> and M\u00e1laga, Spain.<\/p>\n

Designed by Jean-Michel Wilmotte<\/a>, the new museum occupies four floors at the foot of the 1985 tower in Seoul\u2019s financial district that houses Hanwha Group<\/a>\u2019s headquarters. The conglomerate is funding the project through its Hanwha Cultural Foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Low-angleThe backlit glass facade, designed by Jean-Michel Wilmotte, draws its curves from the profile of traditional Korean roof tiles. (Courtesy Centre Pompidou Hanwha)<\/p>\n

Wilmotte & Associ\u00e9s has called the design a \u201cbox of light.\u201d The podium at the base of the tower features a double-glazed envelope courtesy of a backlit glass facade that runs nearly 500 feet along the Han River. Its curves draw from the profile of traditional Korean roof tiles. A sculpture garden is planned for the first floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ceremony was attended by Laurent Le Bon, director of the Centre Pompidou; Philippe Bertoux, French ambassador to Korea; Kim Sung-hee, director of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art; and Kim Dong-won, president and chief global officer of Hanwha Life, who delivered remarks on behalf of Hanwha Group chairman Kim Seung-yeon. Kim Sung-hee noted that the opening coincides with the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korea and France.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ThreeFrom left, Kim Dong-won, president and chief global officer of Hanwha Life, Laurent Le Bon, director of the Centre Pompidou, and Philippe Bertoux, French ambassador to Korea, at the Centre Pompidou Hanwha opening ceremony on May 19. (Courtesy Centre Pompidou Hanwha)<\/p>\n

The inaugural exhibition will include Pablo Picasso\u2019s The Curtain of the Mercure Ballet and Marie Laurencin\u2019s Apollinaire and His Friends. The museum plans to host two exhibitions annually, mixing loans from the Paris collection with shows of contemporary Korean artists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Brussels satellite is the next Pompidou outpost in the pipeline. A larger building designed by Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh<\/a> is anticipated to open in Saudi Arabia in 2028. An OMA-designed satellite in Jersey City was abandoned in 2024<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Centre Pompidou Hanwha held its opening ceremony on May 19 at the base of the 63 Building on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-463002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}