Main Exhibition

Undo Planet 

Organised by Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, and in collaboration with Space for Contemporary Art and Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange
Principal Corporate: Thai Beverage Public Company Limited Supporter
Project Supporters: The Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Real DMZ Project 
Media Partners : ONCE, Room Books, KiNdconnext
Curated by Sunjung Kim

Artists
Adrian Göllner
Akkachet Sikkakorn
Asunción Molinos Gordo
Belén Rodríguez
Dane Mitchell
Haegue Yang
Hashel Al Lamki
ikkibawiKrrr
Jane Jin Kaise
Jin-me Yoon
Joon Kim
Kyung Jin Zoh/ Cho Hye Ryeong
Nancy Holt
Rim Dongsik
Robert Smithson
Shimabuku
SIDECORE
Simon Boudvin
Tuan Mami
Young In Hong

Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, in collaboration with Space for Contemporary Art and Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange, co-organises an international exhibition, Undo Planet. The exhibition Undo Planet uses art as a medium to examine possibilities for restoring nature. The artists join in wrestling with the issue of global climate change, offering various attempts and suggestions as to how our crisis-stricken Earth might be restored. The word “undo” in the title carries the definition of “returning something to its previous state” as well as that of “opening up” or “unfastening.” “Undo planet” can thus be understood as meaning to “return the planet (Earth) to its original state” or “open up a closed planet.” 

The exhibition examines the nature and ecological environment found within the planet we live upon. Our Earth is made up of various components, including the land, the seas, flora, fauna, insects, and so forth. All these things are interconnected in organic ways. Yet these relationships have been severed within the anthropocentric categorisation systems of the era since modernity. While it may not be possible to completely leave behind anthropocentric thought, this exhibition uses the perspectives of artists to examine environments that have been excluded and to reconnect the relationship between nature and human beings after its separation in the process of modernisation. In this way, it seeks to explore a new way of coexistence with nature.

Undo Planet consists of two parts. The first of them centres on Korea’s Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), which was created in the wake of the armistice that suspended the Korean War. This section artistically approaches the history and environment associated with the DMZ region. Since the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953, the DMZ has covered an area extending 248 kilometres in total length and two kilometres to the north and south of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL). Human access there has been restricted for around seven decades, establishing it as a setting where nature has been capable of restoring itself. “Undo DMZ,” which continues from 25 October to 25 November, 2025, is the exhibition’s first part, which artistically explores the DMZ’s ecological environment. The second part, “Land Art and Non-Human Beings,” looks at ecosystems and the global environment from a broader perspective and will run from 19 December 2025 to 22 February 2026. Where “Undo DMZ” centres on a specific region in Korea’s DMZ, “Land Art and Non-Human Beings” focuses on plant and animal life and other non-human presences, encompassing works of land art from the 1960s and 1970s to more recent years.

This exhibition was supported by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE) as part of the “Touring K-Arts” project.