Exhibition runs Friday through Nov. 8 at Herald Gallery in Yongsan-gu

Cross-disciplinary show links fashion, craft, art and design around sustainability

[Provided by Herald Art Day]
[Provided by Herald Art Day]

Herald Art Day announced Wednesday that "Taste of Green 2026," co-presented with TEAM TOG, will run from Friday through Nov. 8 at Herald Gallery in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. The exhibition is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, with Mondays closed.

"Taste of Green" is an ongoing exhibition project that connects fashion, craft, fine art and design under the banner of sustainability. Now in its eighth edition, this year's show takes "THE SENSED — Sustainability Felt Through the Senses" as its theme, exploring stories of the environment and sustainability through artworks, materials and space.

Twenty creators affiliated with TEAM TOG will take part. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, craft, photography and fashion, the artists bring a range of perspectives on sustainability through their individual practices.

During the exhibition, visitors can take part in archive performances and talk programs held with participating artists, offering additional ways to engage with the show.

Discarded and spent materials are reborn as new works throughout the exhibition, while familiar everyday objects take on fresh meaning through each artist's interpretation. The show spans pieces rooted in upcycling, recycling and zero-waste practices, as well as works that reflect on nature, humanity, consumption and the environment.

The exhibition does not limit "GREEN" to eco-friendliness or environmental protection in the conventional sense. It takes a broader view — examining how people live and consume, and how they perceive objects and materials — to show how sustainability can expand within contemporary art and creative practice.

TEAM TOG is a creative art label built around the "Taste of Green" project. Fashion designers, craft artists, contemporary artists and photographers come together to pursue projects that cross the boundaries of fashion, art and craft. The group approaches sustainability not as an environmental campaign but as a mode of creative practice — finding new value in discarded materials and reexamining familiar objects and media to forge connections between fashion and art.

This edition of "Taste of Green" reflects that ethos. Artists from different disciplines come together within a single exhibition to present their own creative languages, pointing toward new possibilities at the intersection of fashion, craft and fine art.

"Rather than delivering sustainability as a heavy, obligatory message, I wanted to create an exhibition where visitors could experience it naturally through the works," Director Moon Jeong-wook said. "The process of creators from different fields each interpreting a single theme in their own way is itself one of the most important features of this show." He added that he hopes "Taste of Green" will become a space where artists thinking about sustainable creative practice and visitors can meet and build new conversations together.


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