The exhibition Contemporary-Art-Business: The New Orders of Contemporary Art is organized with an intent to examine the new conditions and orders through which contemporary art becomes "art" in relation to the operating logic of “absolute capitalism” where everything in our world is dominated by market principles. The exhibition also attempts to critically investigate the power dynamics inherent to the "politics of attention" practiced by museums today. As one can see in phenomena where economic terms such as "attention economy" and "experience economy" intervene in the art market and become commonplace, capital is already making deep interventions in our visual life to reorganize its structure. In such a situation, we encounter the reality where exhibitions—which name “major trends/emerging artists” to reflect on the diversifying aspects of contemporary art within the historical, social, and cultural relationships—are losing their essential purpose and function to become spectacular events. The current exhibition delves into the objective examination of who museums function within the trend of contemporary art practice. At the same time, it attempts to rethink the genuinely internalized reference point to which exhibitions shall request in order to restore and re-execute their original purpose and function.

Artists : Seo Dongjin, Hito Steyerl, Kim Soohwan, Anton Vidokle, Boris Groys

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Museum of Contemporary Art Busan