MMCA Opens Fourth Venue in Cheongju, Jennifer Harge Wins Inaugural Queer|Art Grant
South Korea's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) has launched a new venue in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, occupying a former tobacco factory that closed in 2004. The five-story, 215,000-square-foot space will display approximately 11,000 works from the museum's modern and contemporary holdings, previously distributed across locations in Seoul, Deoksugung, and Gwacheon. Leadership for MMCA Cheongju remains undetermined. Separately, performance artist Jennifer Harge received the first Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant for Queer Women(+) Dance Artists from New York nonprofit Queer|Art. The $10,000 award supports her upcoming performance installation Fly | Drown, which uses ancestral knowledge, personal narratives, and movement to explore bodily autonomy for Black audiences. This work is scheduled to debut in Detroit during autumn 2019.
Key facts
- MMCA opened its fourth venue in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea
- The new museum occupies a historic tobacco factory site decommissioned in 2004
- The venue spans 215,000 square feet across five stories
- It will house about 11,000 artworks from MMCA's modern and contemporary collections
- A director for MMCA Cheongju has not yet been announced
- Jennifer Harge won the inaugural Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant for Queer Women(+) Dance Artists
- The grant is presented by Queer|Art, a New York-based nonprofit
- Harge will receive $10,000 for her performance installation Fly | Drown, premiering in Detroit in autumn 2019
Entities
Artists
- Jennifer Harge
- Eva Yaa Asantewaa
Institutions
- National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA)
- Queer|Art
Locations
- Cheongju
- North Chungcheong Province
- South Korea
- Seoul
- Deoksugung
- Gwacheon
- New York
- Detroit
- United States