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The exhibition The Cubists: Inventing Modern Vision brings together works by major figures of the movement, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, and Sonia Delaunay and Robert Delaunay, alongside artists less familiar to Korean audiences, such as Albert Gleizes, Amédée Ozenfant, and Natalia Goncharova. Organized as a chronological journey, the exhibition traces the emergence, spread, and international development of Cubism. Divided into eight sections, it brings together approximately ninety paintings and sculptures by more than forty artists, including numerous masterpieces never before shown in Korea.

A special section entitled KOREA FOCUS examines the role of Paris in the formation of modern Korean art in the early twentieth century. By exploring the exchanges between Western Cubism and various Korean artistic fields—including visual arts, photography, literature, and dance—this section highlights how the “modern vision” born of Cubism helped shape the development of modern and contemporary Korean art.

This inaugural exhibition, opening on 4 June 2026, is drawn from the collection of the Centre Pompidou and will occupy the museum's two main galleries, representing more than 3,000 square meters of exhibition space. The exhibition has been jointly curated by the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Centre Pompidou Hanwha. By choosing Cubism—a major movement that profoundly transformed the way people see and represent the world—as the subject of its opening exhibition, the Centre Pompidou Hanwha makes a powerful symbolic statement for its inauguration.