Created as an experimental forum for all things related to the communication and production of contemporary art, Platform was begun in 2006 as an annual contemporary art festival featuring a major exhibit accompanied by video and film screenings, performances, lectures, talks with artists, symposiums, and public programs and is presently slated to be held each year up to 2010. Planned and directed by Sunjung Kim, an independent international curator, Platform is organized around a different theme each year by SAMUSO, which explores new forms of exhibiting art by offering diverse contemporary art and cultural contents.

The 2006 inaugural exhibition and program “Somewhere in Time” was an experimental attempt to view the junction between socio-political exploration and the visual arts centering on a seminar titled “Going beyond Nationalism in Visual Art” held in conjunction with the Korea National University of Arts. Platform 2007, titled “Tomorrow“, sought to re-examine the relationship between art and society and to catch a view of the future by questioning our present. This year’s Platform, “I have nothing to say and I am saying it” is composed of works where the theatrical elements of contemporary art, in other words, non-material forms and acts, are conceptually tied to time and space. Platform 2009 and 2010 will explore the themes of “Art and Design”, and “Art and Film” respectively, and will complete the five-year exhibition project.