2025 MINDBOOM: To the Freedom, We Dance

Can we truly say we have attained complete freedom? Even after the end of physical oppression, we continue to live within invisible boundaries shaped by cultural conventions, historical memories, and structures of perception. These boundaries regulate our senses, interrupt our speech, and limit the scope of what we can imagine—often exerting control over the deeper layers of our daily lives as subtly and insidiously as political repression once did.

The exhibition MINDBOOM 2025: To Freedom, We Dance was created to commemorate two symbolic moments: the 80th anniversary of the liberation of South Korea and the 105th anniversary of Victory Day in Poland. Although geographically and historically distinct, both events are part of a global narrative about the desire for freedom and the price that must be paid for it. However, the exhibition goes beyond the dates themselves – it examines what freedom is becoming today, in a world dominated by invisible forms of control: social conventions, structures of perception, cultural traumas. In this context, artists from Asia and Europe come together, undertaking a shared dance beyond the boundaries of language and geopolitics.

Each artist grapples with these boundaries in their own way. Their work challenges the boundaries of established systems and transcends existing frameworks to explore new ways of thinking.

Through their gestures, we are invited to move in an unknown rhythm, speak an unspoken language, feel the intangible, and dance towards all that is unspeakable, unfelt, and unimaginable.
　
　
　
The following artists were invited to participate in the exhibition, organized by the FOTO-GEN Gallery in Wrocław, the BWA Art Gallery in Wałbrzych and the South Korean Global Peace Arts & Culture Foundation (PACF): Ala Savashevich, Dahoon Nam, ENDO Mai x MOMOSE Aya, Igor Wójcik, Jeong Han Kim, Józef Robakowski, Kahee Jeong, LAN Chung-Hsuan, Mozelle, Na Hyun, Shin Il Kim, siren eun young jung, Tooraj Khamenehzadeh, Chronica Disobedientiae (Alexander Chekmenev, @everydayimpunity, Hsu Tsun-Hsu, Vinai Dithajohn).
　
　
　

Institutional Directors
Haeda Kim (Director, PACF)
Igor Wójcik (Director, OKiS)

Piotr Micek (Director, WGS BWA)
Project Team

Artistic Director
Shin Il Kim (PACF)

Exhibition Director
Jeauk Kang (PACF)

Curators
Haeda Kim (PACF)
Paweł Bąkowski (FOTO-GEN Gallery OKiS)

Assistant Curator
Jihoo Kim (PACF)

Coordinators
Soyeon Min (PACF)
Olga Krzywiecka (FOTO-GEN Gallery OKiS)
Ilona Sapka (WGS BWA)

Translation
Christa Conklin

Graphic Designer
Yesin Kim (IDforger)

Public Relations
Bogyeong Choi (PACF)
Hyeonjeong Kim (PACF)
Sosun Na (PACF)

Organized by
PACF / FOTO-GEN Gallery OKiS / WGS BWA

Supported by
Seoul Metropolitan Government / Lower Silesian Voivodeship / the City of Wałbrzych / Pismo Artystyczne “Format”

Collaborated with
Mind Design, Mind Ground, Asia Meditation Association