The bonstar wing, a new space at bonte museum opening in 2026, was designed by architect Tadao Ando. While the existing museum building conveyed a calm and contemplative atmosphere through exposed concrete, the bonstar wing offers a distinctly different atmosphere through light and reflection.The stainless steel panels on the building’s exterior softly reflect Jeju’s sky, clouds, and light, allowing the building’s color and atmosphere to shift with the weather and time of day. Rather than a static structure, the bonstar wing evolves with nature.
Concrete and stainless steel, light and landscape come together in harmony, forming an architecture that captures the essence of Jeju and subtly transforms over time.
The opening commemorative special exhibition ⟨Tadao Ando: Sea–Jeju Island and Naoshima⟩ is currently on view. The exhibition introduces his representative architecture through models, drawings, and materials, starting with his early work 'Sumiyoshi House', followed by 'Church of Light', 'Church of Water', and the Naoshima Project. For Ando, architecture is not merely a building, but a place that allows one to experience the flow of light and space.
⟨Infinity Mirrored Room – Gleaming Lights of Souls⟩ is a work that allows viewers to experience the world of repetition—the artist's mode of expression to escape the pain of hallucination—where one can directly and sensually perceive the endless proliferation of countless dots. The artist presents an experience where not only themselves and their surroundings, but the entire world, becomes covered and expanded by infinite dots—a manifestation of their hallucinatory symptom of infinite dot proliferation. This expansion of dots simultaneously signifies the annihilation of the self within them. Within this experience, viewers become immersed in a state of oblivion, forgetting themselves.
⟨Pumpkin⟩ is Yayoi Kusama's most iconic installation piece, exhibited in renowned cultural spaces worldwide. The artist adorned pumpkins with her signature polka dot pattern because of her deep affection for them. Having lived with mental turmoil and anxiety due to childhood abuse and neglect by her parents, she became captivated by the stable, humorous form and warm feeling of pumpkins piled up in a warehouse, developing an immense attachment to them. This affection and love for pumpkins naturally manifested in various works, making it the piece most immediately associated with Yayoi Kusama.
This media art installation at the bonte museum centers on the lake and the changing seasons. The projected images within capture light and sky, wind and water, and the flow of the seasons. Reminiscent of Monet's water lilies, this work invites you to become part of the piece, allowing you to sensually experience nature's transformations and cycles. Colors and light gently spread across the water's surface, creating scenes that evoke Claude Monet's water lilies and offering a quiet immersion.
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