Opening Friday, January 9, from 5–8 PM Exhibition from 9 to 24 January 2026 Open hours Thursday through Saturday, 14:00–18:00
What happens when the systems we build keep running, but we are no longer there? The first chapter of the ESC 2035 trilogy explores a world in suspension. Featuring works by 8 artists, the exhibition captures a weather report of a future where technology is a landscape of dust, signals, and fossilized interfaces.
Building on the themes of ESC 2034, this chapter looks at the residue we leave behind — from sound circuits to neon warmth — asking what remains when presence is absent.
… the world paused.
Nobody’s here, but something still is. The systems haven’t shut down completely: screens, wiring, dust, and light still translate motion, heat, and air into tone.
Participating artists: Francesco Zedde, Junya Li, Laury Hooghuis, Maria Esteve Trull, S. Mercure, TJ (Tianju) Chen, Tobias Krämer, Todd Clare
This is the second show curated by 0–1.gallery at Quartair. 0–1 is a nomadic contemporary art platform that moves how it needs to — tech-aware, a bit restless, and always asking why. Since 2017, 0–1 has been shaped by artists who keep things in motion, not there for fixed ideas. There are no walls, no permanent fixtures, but a stubborn curiosity, and the need to explore issues that matter. Read more on: 0–1.gallery.
Opening Sunday, Feb 22nd 15:00 opening with performances
Presentations Monday, Feb 23rd 15:00 Lecture by critic Rhee Gyeong-Mo 16:00 Artists talks 17:00 Korean dinner
Nine Dragon Heads is a Korean contemporary art nomadic platform cooperating with Quartair for over 15 years.
Crossing Currents presents a dynamic survey of Korean contemporary art that reflects the country’s rapid cultural transformations and its expanding role in global artistic discourse. Bringing together artists whose practices span from installation, performance, video, photography, to post-material experimentation, the exhibition explores how Korean artists navigate themes of identity, mobility, ecology, and technological change while engaging in dialogue with European and global contexts.
The exhibition positions Korea not as a remote cultural sphere but as an active participant in the transnational flow of ideas—resonating strongly with Quartair’s long-standing interest in international exchange as an experimental artistic practice.
Participating artists: Pang Hyo-Sung (performance), Jang Gyeong-Churl (photo), Lee Hyo-im (panting), Lee Ae-Kyeong (painting), Vania Oh (object ), Kim Young-Jin (Video), Kim Kyeol-Soo (installation), Kwon Ki-Ja (object ), Kwon Ki-Churl (drawing), Pak Kyong-OK (painting), Park Shi-Hyun (drawing), Bahk Young-Hoon (video), Noh Jung-Ha (Video) Ran Hwang (object), Lee Young-Ae (drawing), Park Seung-Jae (painting), Lara Goo (object), Yemi Kim (animation).
This event is supported by AAW ( Asian Artworks) and MOON Gallery 101.
The Environmental Art Symposium Nine Dragon Heads was initiated in South Korea by Park, Byoung-Uk in response to the destruction of an important historical site in 1995, and has evolved from the specific eco-political motivation into an open, interdisciplinary nomadic platform where an association of artists from around the world implement individual and collaborative art projects related to humanitarian, political, environmental and cultural issues.
The origins of Nine Dragon Heads are part of a distinct continuum of artistic development in Korea, beginning in the 1980s and 90s with a small group of artists (contemporaries of Park) who wanted to consider artistic and philosophical problems outside of traditional Korean art forms and who were motivated to remain under the radar of the military regime and government control in place at that time. In that political environment a significant thread of South Korea’s contemporary art development took place in off-site projects, held within rural mountainous areas and remote natural sites.
During thirty years of activity Nine Dragon Heads has evolved out of its specific locality and historical background to investigate a broader range of transitional environmental, economic and political situations. A further important step for Nine Dragon Heads began in 2006 when it became actively nomadic. It was a natural progression for the project to begin to engage with other specific localities and their eco-political histories by traveling.
Working in locations with transitional characteristics that may be environmentally, economically and/or politically troubled, on important cultural, historical and geopolitical routes has become a particular feature of working within Nine Dragon Heads. It is noteworthy that Nine Dragon Heads is an inherently flexible model capable of responding perceptively and with focused spontaneity to the inevitably unexpected contextual conditions which occur within the immediate surroundings of each location the group is engaging with artistically.
Nine Dragon Heads has worked on locations throughout the South Korean Peninsula and its islands, including the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and Joint Security Area (JSA) between the North and South of Korea. Other areas recently engaged include Bosnia/Herzegovina, the South Caucasus; Georgia, and Central Asian locations; Uzbekistan, Turkey, China, Tibet and Mongolia. Past projects have also taken place in Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil.
