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\n\tThough separated by roughly 6,000 miles, the New Museum and Korea\u2019s Ulsan Art Museum have never been closer.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe two institutions today announced a multi-year partnership as part of the Hyundai Translocal Series, an initiative by the Hyundai Motor Company. The collaboration begins with a new commission by Singaporean multimedia artist and writer Ho Tzu Nyen. The work will be installed in the glass elevators of the New Museum\u2019s recently inaugurated OMA redesign, and in Ulsan, a coastal city north of Busan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHo is one of Singapore\u2019s most visible living artists, having represented the city-state at the 2011 Venice Biennale with his multi-channel video installation The Cloud of Unknowing<\/em>. The work interweaves South and Southeast Asian mythologies and histories with Western cultural touchstones\u2014from canonical artists to sacred texts\u2014often with a deliberate sense of unease. In 2024, he was awarded the Chanel Next Prize and was the subject of a mid-career survey at the Singapore Art Museum, which brought together two-decades worth of animation, film, and performance.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a joint statement, Regan Grusy, acting director of the New Museum, and Changsub Lim, director of the Ulsan Art Museum, said, \u201cWe are delighted to participate in the Hyundai Translocal Series, which allows us to transcend physical distances, share the unique cultural and environmental fabrics of our two great cities, and collectively explore the push and pull of the global and the local in contemporary art.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tLaunched in 2025, the Hyundai Translocal Series is a 10-year project intended to connect art institutions worldwide through joint commissions, residency programs, and touring shows. Its expanding list of participants includes Korea\u2019s Cheongju Craft Biennale, the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation, and Whitworth in the UK.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThis collaboration\u201d the statement continued, \u201cwill serve as a bridge that connects our cities and their respective art communities, resulting in new works of art that offer audiences a transformative experience of a multilayered reality that connects us all beyond a single location.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/new-museum-ulsan-art-museum-partnership-ho-tzu-nyen-commission-1234790042\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hyundai-image2.jpg?w=936″] Though separated by roughly 6,000 miles, the New Museum and Korea\u2019s Ulsan Art Museum have never been closer. The two institutions today announced a multi-year partnership as part of the Hyundai Translocal Series, an initiative by the Hyundai Motor Company. The collaboration begins with a new commission by Singaporean multimedia artist and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2007173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2007173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2007173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2007173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2007173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}