From June 26 to July 5, 2026, VELOCITY : Afterimages of the Race opens at Domohun, a historic cultural complex in Busan. Conceived as a special exhibition of the 2026 Busan Mobility Show, it is hosted by Busan Metropolitan City, organized by BEXCO, and curated by MUSEUM1, bringing together four artists: Minseok Kang, Kim Seong-min, Kim Yong-min, and Jang Jae-rok.
Domohun · Where Speed Meets History
Built in 1984 and once used as a presidential provincial annex and the official residence of the Mayor of Busan, Domohun was converted by the city into a cultural space for its citizens in the 2020s. That an exhibition about speed and racing should unfold inside this historic architecture is no coincidence. Above this space where time has come to rest, the afterimage left by speed grows only sharper.
Minseok Kang · A Painter Who Renders Existence Through the Automobile
Born in Busan in 1980, Minseok Kang completed his BFA and MFA in Western painting at Dong-A University. His painting always begins from "movement" and "the tension of existence." From the moment he first placed an automobile on the canvas, it became not a mere object but a symbol connecting the inner world and outer reality. The automobile is a tool racing through reality and a projection of inner force and desire; through it, the artist poses the fundamental question of how a human being lives and transforms within time. In the repeated gestures of scraping, pushing, pouring, and covering paint, the automobile is dismantled and fractured, then reassembled within an explosion of color.
Endless Impact D03 — The Moment of Explosive Collision
The Endless Impact works Kang presents here form a painting cycle of recent pieces from 2025–2026. D03 captures the instant of an explosive collision across a large canvas of 194×130.4cm. The fractures and shocks inscribed in the work operate not as mere destruction but as a force summoning a new order. This endless speed is a journey toward the essence of existence, and the traces it leaves reveal an identity that transcends time and space.
Endless Impact D09 · D11 — Same Speed, Different Moments
D09 and D11 share a square 130.4×130.4cm canvas, yet each holds a different moment of collision. Moving toward different conclusions within the same speed and tension, the two works attain their complete meaning as a series only when set side by side. Like two trajectories extending at once from within a single being, the two canvases are both the fracturing of identity and its expansion.
Endless Force XXXVII — The Centerpiece of the Exhibition
Endless Force XXXVII is the centerpiece to be hung at the heart of the Domohun space. At 324×111.9cm, the large horizontal canvas radiates an overwhelming physical presence in itself. The Endless Force series (2019–2024) is a painting cycle exploring speed, competition, and inner force; through the distortion and dismantling of the automobile, it has spoken of the fierce competition of contemporary life and of the compromise and coexistence found within it.
The endless speed of a consciousness racing toward an ever-contracting center stands for the force of a being pushing through the pressures of modern society and its inner conflict. XXXVII — the thirty-seventh. As many acts and inquiries as that number are condensed into this single canvas.
Endless Impact D10 · Timeleap V — Two Times, Two Directions
D10 is the smallest work in the Endless Impact series (45.6×52.8cm), holding an explosive density within its compressed canvas. Timeleap V (2022) is a mixed-media painting combining acrylic and embroidery floss. The Timeleap series moves across past, present, and future to express the challenge and hope of searching for identity, telling the story of contemporary people confined within time. Though they belong to different series, the two works become mirrors reflecting each other through the shared language of speed and time.
Second-Floor Media Space · Ice Cream — Where Speed Has Passed
The exhibition's second layer unfolds in the media space on Domohun's upper floor. Kang's Ice Cream media series reshapes the paint fragments left over from the painting process into the form of ice cream. First presented at his 2024 solo exhibition at Starfield Myeongji, the series visualizes the sensory afterimage that persists even within rapidly vanishing time. Like ice cream melting away, what remains after speed is not form but sensation.
If the first floor is a space of energy where automobiles collide and explode, the second floor is a space where the memory of color left after that collision quietly settles. The residue of the paint joins with light and is reborn as ice cream in a new form.
Exhibition Details
Title: VELOCITY : Afterimages of the Race Dates: June 26 – July 5, 2026 Venue: Domohun, Suyeong-gu, Busan Host: Busan Metropolitan City Organizer: BEXCO Curation: MUSEUM1 Participating Artists: Minseok Kang, Kim Seong-min, Kim Yong-min, Jang Jae-rok
