성능경

Sung Neung Kyung (Korean: 성능경; born 1944) is a South Korean contemporary artist best known for his performance art created during the authoritarian period under president Park Chung Hee. This period was marked by extreme censorship and violent suppression. The extreme political conditions of this period facilitated the emergence of a distinct culture of performance art mainly centered around The Korean Avant-Garde Association (AG) and the Space and Time Group (ST), founded by Lee Kun-Yong, a close collaborator of Sung. Sung’s work is characterized by the dissection of ubiquitous parts of daily life and an exploration of the symbolism of routines. He continues to make art prolifically and was featured in a major 2023 exhibition of Korean Avant-Garde art at the Guggenheim Museum (originally shown at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul) titled Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s -1970s