'The Artist's Secret Garden: Fragments of a Dream' opens at Samsung Children's Education and Culture Center

Co-hosted with Seoul Metropolitan Children's Hospital

Supported by Samsung Life Insurance Public Welfare Foundation and Samsung Culture Foundation

The Samsung Welfare Foundation is holding an exhibition of works by 97 children and teenagers with developmental disabilities, titled "The Artist's Secret Garden: Fragments of a Dream," at the Samsung Children's Education and Culture Center from Tuesday through Dec. 10. [Samsung Welfare Foundation]
The Samsung Welfare Foundation is holding an exhibition of works by 97 children and teenagers with developmental disabilities, titled "The Artist's Secret Garden: Fragments of a Dream," at the Samsung Children's Education and Culture Center from Tuesday through Dec. 10. [Samsung Welfare Foundation]

The Samsung Welfare Foundation announced Wednesday that it will hold an exhibition of works by 97 children and teenagers with developmental disabilities at the Samsung Children's Education and Culture Center from Tuesday through Dec. 10. Titled "The Artist's Secret Garden: Fragments of a Dream," the show features art therapy pieces created by young participants at Seoul Metropolitan Children's Hospital.

Now in its fifth year, the exhibition displays art therapy works produced by children and teenagers with developmental disabilities at Seoul Metropolitan Children's Hospital, a medical-based arts therapy and education center for people with developmental disabilities.

The Samsung Welfare Foundation and Seoul Metropolitan Children's Hospital are co-hosting the event. Samsung Life Insurance Public Welfare Foundation is providing exhibition space and operational support, while the Samsung Culture Foundation is handling exhibition planning and visitor programming.

This year, organizers introduced an "artist's note audio guide" to help visitors connect more directly with the young creators. Visitors can listen to audio recordings of each artist's thoughts and the stories behind their works, and may also leave letters of encouragement.

Since the exhibition launched in 2022, it has drawn an average of 5,000 visitors each year, with the number of works and the scale of the show growing annually.

Director Nam Min of Seoul Metropolitan Children's Hospital said the children's works are "a crystallization of originality and wonder that finds the extraordinary within the ordinary — a unique world that no one else can replicate."

Ryu Moon-hyung, executive vice president overseeing Samsung foundations, said the organization would continue to stand as "a steadfast partner so that children and teenagers with developmental disabilities can freely express their own talents," just as it has walked alongside them over the past five years.

The Samsung Welfare Foundation plans to produce about 20,000 copies of a 2027 calendar featuring works from the exhibition and distribute them free of charge to social welfare centers nationwide, Seoul Metropolitan Children's Hospital, and childcare and education institutions.


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