Sea art festival

Founded in 1987 as the pre-Olympics event of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, the Sea Art Festival was held annually until 1995.

The Sea Festival has been known to utilize the sea, the natural environment, as exhibition space, showcasing site-specific installations, and in 2006, the exhibition began to manifest the flux and discourse of contemporary art, not limiting itself to only outdoor installations.

Furthermore, through the formal destruction of space and the freedom of being both indoor and outdoor, the Sea Art Festival has become the unique marine art brand of Busan that is young, experimental, communicative and site-specific.

The festival was led by Greek director Irini Papadimitriou, with 43 artists from both Korea and abroad participating.

It has created an environment for harmony and shared benefits for the local art community.