Nam June Paik: The Future is Now
Can you predict the future? Artist Nam June Paik already anticipated the dawn of the internet era and social media in the 60s and 70s.
You can now discover the work of this visionary artist and pioneer in the exhibition Nam June Paik: The Future is Now. On view this spring and summer at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Nam June Paik did not only predict the power of mass media to shape our lives but introduced the term ‘electronic superhighway’ as well to foretell the future of communication in an internet age.
The exhibition features futuristic installations like TV-Garden and TV-Buddha, his robots and works like Global Groove.
About Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik (1932 – 2006) was born in Seoul, but lived and worked in Japan, Germany, and the United States. His travels led him to be what we would call a global citizen nowadays. It made him pick up a fascination with the philosophies and traditions of both Eastern and Western cultures, which is clearly visible in his art.
Paik had a long relationship with the Stedelijk Museum: already in 1977 he had his first solo exhibition here. A year later his seminal work TV Buddha was acquired by the Stedelijk. The work is on view in the current exhibition too!
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Nam June Paik, Sistine Chapel, 1993. Exhibition copy, courtesy of the Nam June Paik Estate. Photo: Peter Tijhuis -
Nam June Paik, Magnet TV, 1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Purchase, with funds from Dieter Rosenkranz, 86.60 a-b. © The Estate of Nam June Paik -
Gallery shot, Nam June Paik – The Future is Now, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (March 14 until August 23, 2020). Photo: Peter Tijhuis -
Nam June Paik, TV-Buddha, 1974. Collectie Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Foto Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. -
Nam June Paik, Homage to Stanley Brouwn, 1984. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Peter Tijhuis -
Nam June Paik, Self-Portrait, 2005, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Major Accessions. © The Estate of Nam June Paik -
