Harry Meyer – Summit Worlds @ ZAHA Museum of Arts, Seoul

We are delighted to draw your attention to an exceptional international exhibition project by the German painter Harry Meyer.

In the summer of 2026, the ZAHA Museum of Art in Seoul will present a major institutional solo exhibition dedicated to the artist. This collaboration with the renowned museum marks a significant step in the international recognition of Harry Meyer’s work.

At the heart of the exhibition is the series GipfelWelten (Summit Worlds), a body of work that Harry Meyer developed over a period of more than five years and which will now be presented to the public for the first time. These paintings approach landscape not merely as a representation of nature, but as an emotional and intellectual space of experience. Characteristic of Meyer’s practice is a dense, impasto application of paint with extraordinary physical presence, in which atmosphere, memory, and painterly gesture converge to create powerful and immersive pictorial worlds.

For this series, the ZAHA Museum of Art provides a particularly resonant setting. Nestled within the landscape of the Inwangsan Mountains, the museum establishes an immediate connection to the exhibition’s central themes. Within Korean culture, where mountain landscapes have held profound spiritual and aesthetic significance for centuries, Meyer’s works unfold an additional layer of cultural and conceptual depth.

Accompanying the exhibition is a comprehensive catalogue featuring contributions by Nils Ohlsen, Director of the Lillehammer Art Museum (Norway), and the Korean art critic Park Young-Taek, both of whom offer distinct perspectives on Meyer’s oeuvre and the significance of this exhibition project.