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진주시립이성자미술관

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진주시립이성자미술관

진주시립이성자미술관은 진주 출신 이성자 작가의 376점의 작품을 기증받아 2015년 7월 16일에 개관하였다. 동녘의 여대사라고 불릴 만큼 세계적인 작가였던 이성자는 여성으로서 한국 최초의 프랑스 유학을 떠났으며 동양철학으로 서양의 문화를 재해석하여 자신만의 독창적인 작업세계를 펼쳤다. 진주시는 이성자 작가의 예술적 업적과 삶을 기리기 위해 작품에 대한 연구ㆍ수집ㆍ보존ㆍ전시ㆍ교육을 운영하고 있으며 현재 진주혁신도시 영천 강변에 위치한 미술관은 “나의 미술관이 지어진다면, 강을 조망할 수 있는 곳이면 좋겠다”라는 작가의 바램을 담은 공간이다.

ROOTIconic stop curated by Korea Tourism Organization

Why go

Jinju Lee Seong-ja Art Museum is a city-run art museum in Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do, dedicated to the work of Lee Seong-ja (1918–2009), a major Korean painter who spent most of her career in Paris but maintained a strong connection to her Korean roots and to her hometown of Jinju. Lee's work moved between abstract painting, calligraphic mark-making, and color-field-style canvases, and she was one of the first Korean women painters to establish an international career in postwar Europe. The museum holds a substantial body of her donated works, alongside personal materials, photographs, and rotating exhibitions that contextualize her work within both Korean and European modernism. The building is a contemporary white-cube structure on the Jinju cultural-park grounds and pairs with broader Jinju cultural day-trip itineraries.

Quick highlights

  • City-run art museum dedicated to painter Lee Seong-ja (1918–2009)
  • Major Korean painter with most of her career based in Paris
  • Abstract, calligraphic mark-making, and color-field works
  • One of the first Korean women painters with an international career
  • Holds donated works, personal materials, contextual exhibitions

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