Clear, Lucid, and Awake | Public Program

Art Sonje Centre, Seoul

May 10 – May 11, 2025

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Regina de Miguel. Nekya. A film river, 2022. Commissioned by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Supported by the program Apoyo a la Creación by La Caixa Foundation and the Botin Foundation. Still: Courtesy the Artist

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CLEAR, LUCID, AND AWAKE. SPANISH ARTISTS FROM THE TBA21 COLLECTION
PUBLIC PROGRAM

Learn more about the exhibition HERE

 

KEYNOTE LECTURE BY CHUS MARTÍNEZ

May 10, 2025. 2 PM

Auditorium, Art Sonje, Seoul

Registration: No registration required

Access: Free activity 

Recommended age: All audiences are welcome

Language: Spanish, with simultaneous Korean translation 

 

To mark the opening of Clear, Lucid, and Awake. Spanish Artists from the TBA21 Collection, Chus Martínez offers a keynote lecture introducing the exhibition’s central themes. The exhibition explores the resonances between Spain and Korea as peninsular cultures shaped by the legacies of late capitalism, ecological urgencies, and a shared yearning to reconnect with rural knowledge and landscapes.

 

 

ROUNDTABLE: AWAKE! OR HOW TO GET TO WORK 

May 10, 2025. 3 PM

Auditorium, Art Sonje, Seoul

Participants: Belén Rodríguez, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Diego DelasDaniel Steegman Mangrané, and Chus Martínez.

Registration: No registration required

Access: Free activity 

Recommended age: All audiences are welcome

Language: Spanish, with simultaneous Korean translation 

 

Artists Belén Rodríguez, Asunción Molinos Gordo, Diego Delas, and Daniel Steegman Mangrané join Chus Martínez for a conversation exploring artistic practices that foster reciprocal relationships with nature and space. Grounded in research and shaped by poetic gestures, the discussion will consider how these approaches open up new ways of sensing, inhabiting, and attending to the natural world.

 

 

FILM SCREENING AND CONVERSATION: NEKYA. A RIVER FILM, REGINA DE MIGUEL 

May 11, 2025. 2 PM

Auditorium, Art Sonje, Seoul

Registration: No registration required

Access: Free activity 

Recommended age: All audiences are welcome

Language: Spanish, with simultaneous Korean translation 

 

The screening of Nekya. A River-Film (2023), a work by Regina de Miguel, invites the audience on a journey through the layered geographies of a river, explored both as a physical presence and a metaphor. Blending elements of documentary, speculative fiction, and scientific exploration, the film meditates on ecological grief, memory, and the porous boundaries between worlds. Following the screening, the artist joins Marina Avia Estrada, Head of Exhibitions & Public Programs at TBA21, for a conversation.

 

 

SONIC READING: RATS & ROACHES, CLAUDIA PAGÉS

May 11, 2025. 4 PM

Location to be announced

Registration: No registration required

Access: Free activity 

Recommended age: All audiences are welcome

Language: Spanish, with simultaneous Korean translation 

 

Rats and Roaches is a “sonic reading” by Claudia Pagés that combines spoken word, music, and movement to examine the structures shaping contemporary urban life, with a particular focus on Barcelona. Drawing on multilingual text and rhythmic speech, the work critiques systems of control and surveillance embedded in cityscapes. Through the figures of rats and cockroaches, Pagès evokes both decay and resilience, using these symbols to reflect on resistance and marginality. The performance invites viewers to rethink the politics woven into everyday urban environments.

 

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Clear, Lucid, and Awake - Spanish Artists from the TBA21 Collection Exhibition at Art Sonje Center, Seoul