Hyundai Motor Announces Opening of Hyundai Translocal Series: Via Satellite in Yongin and São Paulo

SEOUL, November 4, 2026 – Hyundai Motor Company today announced the opening of Hyundai Translocal Series: Via Satellite, co-organized by the Nam June Paik Art Center in Yongin, Korea, and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo in Brazil.

Opening on November 5, 2026, and running through March 28, 2027, the presentation at the Nam June Paik Art Center unfolds under the subtitle Moon, Echo, Mosquitoes, and Memes, bringing together newly commissioned and existing works by the four participating artists and highlighting the multilayered dialogues among them. The exhibition at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, subtitled Dialogues with Nam June Paik, opens on November 28, 2026, and runs through April 18, 2027, presenting new works by the participating artists alongside more than 25 works by Nam June Paik.

Hyundai Translocal Series is a partnership initiative by Hyundai Motor that supports art institutions in Korea and across the globe in multi-year collaborations, encompassing joint research, artwork commissions, exhibitions, public programming, and publications. Conceived as a platform for sustained collaboration, the initiative fosters in-depth artistic exchanges that explore and reflect the complexities of global interconnectedness.

The exhibition builds on a multi-year collaboration between the Nam June Paik Art Center and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. Curators from both museums and participating artists visited each other’s cities to explore their respective cultures, languages, and histories including histories of migration and movement, while a joint forum offered an opportunity to carry their research further.

Extending Paik’s experiments, which allowed people to transcend physical distances, form new relationships, and imagine new possibilities, the exhibition follows the practices of four artists, Christine Sun Kim, biarritzzz, Jane Jin Kaisen, and Vivian Caccuri, based in different cities, examining the potential for new connections to emerge where distinctive regional and cultural contexts intersect. Through their works, the artists explore how connections can take shape across boundaries, evoking a translocal perspective.

Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, based in Berlin) continues her mind series and unveils two large-scale murals: Mind Land Mass (2026) at the Nam June Paik Art Center and Land Mind (2026) at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. The works engage in a dialogue across the two institutions. Kim imagines her own mind as forming a single, real entity that is immediately visible. It is represented as a black mass, with another mind descending over it. For the artist, the idea of the mind touching something signifies a state that is persistent and somewhat obsessive. The relationship between different masses evokes the distance and perceptions that the mind forms with respect to past memories and particular objects. It also signifies the feelings of weight, pressure, and obligation that arise.

biarritzzz (b. 1994, Fortaleza, based in Salvador), in collaboration with Mozambican dancer and choreographer Tsumbe Mussundza, explores the historical traces and origins of “samba” as both a word and a style of dance in Three Origins of the Word Samba: Jump, Bath, Prayer (2026). In another new work, Language is a Vaccine (2026), the artist shows, through the ambiguities of language, how it can serve not only as a way of describing reality but also as a medium for creating new possibilities.

Jane Jin Kaisen (b. 1980, Jeju, based in Copenhagen) presents Old Moon – New Moon (2026), a film recorded from Rundetårn in Copenhagen, the oldest functioning observatory building in Europe, alongside Current (2026), which uses slow-motion aerial filming to show volcanic rock islands, waves, and the vast flowing expanse of the sea off Jeju Island. Positioned opposite one another to form a visual dialogue, the works remind us of how natural forces such as the moon, currents, and tides served as media for people on opposite sides of the world to form relationships even before the development of today’s technology.

Vivian Caccuri (b. 1986, São Paulo, based in Rio de Janeiro) presents Clepsydra (2026), a sound sculpture installation comprising concrete block speakers and audio cables that form a vine-like tangle across the space. In place of the familiar, easily recognized pulse of the heartbeat, the artist focuses on the sounds of veins. Sounds recorded from the veins of multiple people resonate throughout the space, echoing the continuous dripping of an ancient water clock—the meaning of the work’s Greek-derived title—and inviting us to reimagine our lost perception of time as something continuous.

“The exhibition is a project of 'connection' that links Nam June Paik's experiments to the realities of today. By bridging different places and cultures and fostering mutual understanding, it creates a space for communication and solidarity, while also serving as an experiment in collaboration among four curators and four artists. In the year marking the 20th anniversary of Paik's passing, an exhibition where his waves across the sky converge holds all the more significance.” – Namhee Park, Director of Nam June Paik Art Center, and Jochen Volz, General Director of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo

“The collaborative research between Nam June Paik Art Center and Pinacoteca de São Paulo traces points of resonance across local contexts, allowing the dialogue among the four artists to extend to Paik’s artistic practice. We value the opportunity to accompany this ongoing research and collaboration, through which distinctive perspectives intersect and open new interpretations and discourse.” – DooEun Choi, Art Director of Hyundai Motor Company

The two institutions will organize public programs, including artist talks and performances at the opening, as well as guided tours with sign language interpretation and workshops throughout the exhibition period. These programs invite audiences to engage more deeply with the artists’ practices and the themes of the exhibition.

Hyundai Translocal Series: Via Satellite is co-curated by: 

• Yoonseo Kim, Chief Curator, Nam June Paik Art Center
• Kwonjin Cho, Curator, Nam June Paik Art Center
• Ana Maria Maia, Chief Curator, Pinacoteca de São Paulo 
• Ana Paula Lopes, Curator, Pinacoteca de São Paulo