Galerie Philia Brings Human After All
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Seoul Galerie Philia provides Human After All in Seoul, an exhibit that collects a brand-new generation of Korean designers within a former bathhouse whose architecture brings decades of transformation.
The project continues the gallery’s ongoing approach of staging contemporary design within structures that hold strong architectural character. Over the previous decade, Galerie Philia has actually organized exhibitions in renowned structures by designers such as Jean Nouvel and Le Corbusier, where it makes up modern objects within spaces shaped by culture.
In Seoul, the gallery returns three years after Surfaces and Cavity at Specify Seoul, presenting a brand-new curatorial direction developed by co-founder and art director Ygaël Attali. Humans After All is on view in Seoul from March 5th through March 15th, 2026.
FICT Studio, Human After All, Galerie Philia’humans after all’occupies a historic bathhouse The Seoul place shapes the experience from the moment visitors get in Galerie Philia’s exhibit Human After All. Built in the 1980s as a community bathhouse and later transformed into a church, the building carries traces of a number of lives.
A high central volume rises through the structure, drawing daytime from a skylight above and casting it across exposed concrete surface areas. The environment feels reflective, and the architectural structure guides how each item comes into view.
Attali deals with the structure as an active individual in the exhibition. The gallery’s setups follow the structure’s vertical rhythm, allowing the works to occupy different levels of light and distance. Within this setting, items get existence through their relationship to surface, scale, and shadow.
Lee Sisan, Human After All, Galerie Philia Sculptural Style from a New Generation Human After All presents works by FICT Studio, Hyungshin Hwang, Lee Sisan, Saerom Yoon, Studio Chacha, and Min Seon Kong. Each designer approaches type through a distinct technique while sharing an interest in product exploration and
sculptural language. Hyungshin Hwang’s layered compositions interact with the concrete planes of the building, their stratified surfaces echoing the texture of the walls. Saerom Yoon’s pieces bring saturated color that moves as daylight moves through the space.
Lee Sisan’s works examine the relationship in between organic matter and made material, bringing a tactile existence into discussion with the structure around them.
Studio Chacha and Minutes Seon Kong present items whose scale welcomes close viewing, while FICT Studio reviews craft customs through modern fabrication.
Lee Sisan, Human After All, Galerie Philia material dialogue Throughout the exhibit, attention stays on product expression and physical existence. Stone, resin, metal, and wood appear as providers of process. Surfaces hold traces of carving, casting, and shaping. Within the architecture of the Seoul venue, these gestures sign up with unusual intensity.
‘In Human After All, one senses a subtle discussion between a specific cold modernity, almost neo-brutalist in its precision, and an organic sensitivity drawn from nature,‘ Attali explains.
‘The works oscillate in between control and disintegration, geometry and development, technological processes and tactile presence. This stress shows a broader condition of contemporary design, where the human gesture persists within significantly structured and engineered environments.‘
FICT Studio, Human After All, Galerie Philia Korean Design in a Global Discussion The exhibit likewise reflects a broader shift in contemporary Korean design. Much of the designers featured here operate within a worldwide network of galleries and collectors while maintaining strong connections to local craft understanding and product culture.
Attali describes this emerging generation as one that withstands stiff meanings. ‘What identifies these designers is their rejection of repaired classifications,‘ he states. ‘Their works exist in a limit in between function and sculpture, where material experimentation meets cultural memory and contemporary awareness. They are forming a vocabulary that stays deeply connected to position while engaging a global conversation on sculptural style.‘
The Seoul presentation forms the opening chapter of a trilogy that Galerie Philia will establish across Asia this year, with upcoming exhibits planned in Shenzhen and Tokyo.
Saerom Yoon, Human After All, Galerie Philia