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Do Ho Suh

Tate Modern

London

May 1–Oct 26, 2025

Installation view of Do Ho Suh at Tate Modern

Tate Modern will present a major exhibition of the work of Do Ho Suh, marking the first major institutional showing of his work in London in two decades. The artist invites visitors to explore his large-scale installations, sculptures, videos and drawings, asking questions about the enigma of home, identity and how we move through and inhabit the world around us. The exhibition will present the breadth and depth of Suh’s unique practice over the last three decades, spanning­ locations including Seoul, New York, and London—the three cities he has called home, and featuring new site-specific works on display for the first time.

The exhibition’s title Walk the House is drawn from an old Korean expression referring to the hanok—a house that could theoretically be disassembled, transported and reassembled at a new site. Reflecting this idea of a transportable home, Suh’s immersive works examine the relationship between architecture, space, the body, and the memories that make us who we are. The artist has stated: “The space I’m interested in is not only a physical one, but an intangible, metaphorical, and psychological one. For me, ‘space’ is that which encompasses everything.”

Installation view of Do Ho Suh at Tate Modern
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Installation by Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Perfect Home: London, Horsham, New York, Berlin, Providence, Seoul, 2024

Installation by Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Nest/s, 2024

Video still by Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Dong in, 2022

Thread drawing by Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Karma Juggler (Red), 2013

“The space I’m interested in is not only a physical one, but an intangible, metaphorical, and psychological one. For me, ‘space’ is that which encompasses everything.” —Do Ho Suh

Installation view of Do Ho Suh at Tate Modern
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Portrait of Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, Seoul, Korea; lives and works in London, United Kingdom) works across various media, creating drawings, film, and sculptural works that confront questions of home, physical space, displacement, memory, individuality, and collectivity. Suh is best known for his fabric sculptures that reconstruct to scale his past and present homes and studios in Korea, Rhode Island, Berlin, London, and New York.

Suh is interested in the malleability of space in both its physical and metaphorical forms, and examines how the body relates to, inhabits, and interacts with that space. He is particularly interested in domestic space and the way the concept of home can be articulated through architecture that has a specific location, form, and history. For Suh, the spaces we inhabit also contain psychological energy, and in his work he makes visible those markers of memories, personal experiences, and a sense of security, regardless of geographic location.

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