Art Sonje Center and Space for Contemporary Art are pleased to announce Axel Koschier: yongryang (mountain–river), on view at the Hanok Garden of Art Sonje Center from March 4 to 14, 2026.

The scale and arrangement of the work situated in the Hanok Garden refer to the studio apartment located at 3F, 74-18 Yulgok-ro 3-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, where the artist stayed. The five openings that define the living and working spaces within the apartment are represented by textured, monochrome surfaces, whose colours are connected to the traditional Korean colour scheme, Obangsaek. The structure in which the surfaces are installed reflects the proportions of the apartment’s veranda. Furthermore, the dash (–) used in the title suggests the location of the work within the Hanok Garden, positioned in a favourable spot between Bugaksan and the Han River. In this way, Koschier presents not a work that emerges solely from the artist’s intention and planning, but one that relies on autonomous and accidental moments generated through the interaction between the site in which the work is placed, the artist’s recent experiences, and the materials and tools involved.

Axel Koschier (b. 1980)
Axel Koschier (b. 1980) lives and works in Vienna and is currently participating in the SCA residency program in Seoul.
In semi-automatic processes, the artist Axel Koschier takes a step back as author. He splits his role into the facilitator on the one hand and the executing worker on the other. In the interweaving of the various Processual logics and logistics traditionally assigned to different artistic dispositifs, the coordinates shift. In this way, he opens up space for the materials and tools to react spontaneously with each other. Between “what you see is what you see” and hermetic technical and aesthetic inside jokes, Koschier regularly makes a game of provocatively challenging the expectations that participants in the art world have of the components used in artistic production. (Michael Wonnerth-Magnusson, Independent Curator)