A solo exhibition by Christian Hidaka is currently running at SeMA, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art in South Korea. Born to a Japanese mother and a British father, the London-based Hidaka uses artistic techniques such as perspective and shan shui in order to question how images are created in Western and Eastern art. His exhibition, Theatres of the Sky, Skies of the Theatre, connects a large-scale mural that spreads out from the museum’s basement into the atrium, continuing through the public space, corridors, and the underground exhibition space. Hidaka has transformed the basement space into a cave and has recreated cave paintings through a consideration of how and what our ancestors in prehistoric times drew. The exhibition asks us to think about the meaning of drawing in the modern age.
Wall drawings allow us to physically enter a visual world; traditional paintings are worlds that are created within a frame which allow us to meditate on our thoughts. The exhibition will be running for just under a year, encouraging visitors to visit every so often and continue to look deeper into the art.

Christian Hidaka
Theatres of the Sky, Skies of the Theatre
2025. 6. 5 – 2026. 5. 10
Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Korea

https://sema.seoul.go.kr/en/whatson/exhibition/detail