Collaboration between Antony Gormley and Tadao Ando at Museum SAN A new permanent space at the museum
In June 2025, Museum SAN will unveil Ground, a new space created by Tadao Ando and Antony Gormley. The project marks the first collaboration between the celebrated architect and artist, bringing together their respective practices which profoundly examine the relationship between nature and the human condition – a mutual interest that lies at the core of Ground.
Embedded underneath the museum’s flower garden, Ground is designed as a subterranean cave with its opening facing northeast towards the mountains of Wonju. Seven sculptures from Gormley’s Blockworks series are dispersed throughout its twenty-five meter round interior space and within the landscape beyond the cave mouth. Standing, crouching, sitting, and lying down - these bodies evoke a state of mind, memory, and emotion that invite the viewers to contemplate their own state of being while they observe the moving bodies of fellow visitors interacting with the works.
The ever-changing surrounding natural elements engage with the architecture and art to create a distinctive moment in time. Transforming space, art and nature into a singular experience, Ground culminates and embodies Museum SAN’s mission statement: Disconnect to connect.
