UnHouse is an exhibition that dismantles and rebuilds the idea of “home” through the lens of queer artists. Home is often regarded as a symbol of safety, protection, and intimacy, yet for queer individuals it is an ambivalent place—a space where voices must be lowered and bodies hidden, but also a shelter from the gaze and violence of the outside world. It can be a private laboratory where one experiments with desire and identity free from interference. Home exists as both private and public, oppressive and liberating, a site of past memories and a vessel for possible futures.

To reinterpret “home” from a queer perspective at this moment resonates deeply with the current reality of Korean society, where change and resistance intersect. In a time when debates over gender, sexual orientation, and the legalization of same-sex marriage are in flux, conversations about the home remain deeply political and urgently in need of redefinition.

Frieze Seoul House, the venue for this exhibition, is a long-abandoned residential building that has been converted into an art space. UnHouse incorporates the building’s distinctive architecture—its staircases, tiled glass windows, ceilings and floors, corridors between rooms—into the exhibition itself. As visitors move through the rooms and corridors, they encounter installations, sculptures placed in windows and courtyards, paintings suspended from ceilings, and video works that appear unexpectedly. These varied media interconnect to create a distinctive queer rhythm and sensibility.

UnHouse is also a site of encounter—bringing together internationally acclaimed queer artists and emerging queer voices from Korea for the first time under one roof. Working from different cultural and political contexts, these artists resist socially imposed identity norms, dismantle the hierarchies of fixed spaces, and translate emotion and memory into delicate visual languages. Their works intersect and diverge across four thematic axes: Body/Identity, Space/Power, Relation/Care, and Memory/Transmission, offering fresh ways to perceive the familiar idea of home.

Marking the inauguration of Frieze House Seoul, UnHouse invites audiences to imagine “another home” we might wish to inhabit. The title suggests not merely dismantling a house, but rearranging it into unexpected structures and testing joyful possibilities. Within the exhibition, works occupy the space like hosts, guests, or figures that appear unexpectedly—like ghosts or witches—inviting audiences from around the world to step outside familiar orders and into new configurations.

Jaeseok Kim is a curator, lecturer and moderator who regularly publishes essays and interviews about Korean artists as well as the domestic and international art scenes Korean art scene. He was formerly Editor-in-Chief of Art in Culture (a leading monthly contemporary art magazine in Korea) and Creative Director at Gallery Hyundai. Kim currently runs xlarge, an exhibition space converted from his own residence