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Korean-born artist Jae Ko’s exhibition Striated is on view at 22MUSE Gallery in Antwerp through Nov. 28, 2026. It brings together works from a formative period in her paper-sculpture practice and a site-specific installation, showing how rolled, compressed and inked paper can form layered, landscape-like structures.
Korean-born artist Jae Ko’s exhibition Striated is on view at 22MUSE Gallery in Antwerp, combining works from a formative period in her practice with a site-specific installation. The show is Ko’s first solo exhibition in Belgium and focuses on sculptures made from paper, a material she has explored for more than four decades.
Ko makes the works from materials including discarded office supplies, recycled kraft paper and adding-machine paper rolls. According to Design Milk’s report on the exhibition, she unwinds tightly coiled paper, then rolls, twists, folds, stacks and compresses it into sculptural forms. Some pieces are treated with sumi ink; others use pigmented inks in shades including blue, red, green and violet.
The process varies by work. Ko may cut, carve or bind the paper, and some pieces are buried so that time and environmental conditions can affect their final form. The resulting ridges and grooves remain visible, making the material’s layers and method of construction part of each sculpture’s appearance.
Works in the exhibition range from curled, tightly wound forms to elongated ribbons and larger installations. The accumulated paper can give the sculptures an appearance of density and weight, even though their starting material is comparatively fragile. The gallery presentation includes the site-specific installation alongside works from an earlier period of Ko’s practice.
Paper Built Into Landscape Forms
The exhibition offers a focused view of how Ko turns an everyday material into three-dimensional structures without hiding the steps used to make them. Repeated folds and compressed edges create patterns that can recall tree rings, rock strata or other natural formations, while remaining visibly constructed from paper.
That contrast between fragile material and substantial form helps explain the work’s visual effect. The sculptures do not simply imitate a particular landscape, according to the source report; they draw attention to processes such as accumulation, erosion, growth and movement. For viewers, the gallery installation also gives those ideas a spatial scale beyond that of an individual object.
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Four Decades With Paper
Ko has worked with paper for more than 40 years. Her practice has developed across different environments: she grew up in Seoul, studied in Japan and later moved to the United States, eventually settling on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Design Milk describes her work as reflecting both early urban surroundings and later encounters with natural landscapes.
Ko has drawn comparisons between her sculptures and bristlecone pine trees in the American West, whose forms are shaped over time by wind and weather. The works in Striated are not presented as literal depictions of those trees or of a specific place. Instead, the exhibition title refers to the parallel lines and grooves created by the paper’s accumulated layers, which the report frames as a record of time and labor.
The report identifies Striated as Ko’s first solo exhibition in Belgium. It is currently on view at 22MUSE Gallery in Antwerp and is scheduled to run through Nov. 28, 2026.
““The process itself becomes visible in every ridge, groove, and curve.””
— Design Milk’s report on Jae Ko’s work
Exhibition Details Still Limited
The source report does not provide a full exhibition checklist, the number of works on display, or further details about the site-specific installation’s dimensions and materials. It also does not specify which pieces use sumi ink, colored inks or other treatments. Those details cannot be confirmed from the available account.
The exhibition is listed as running through Nov. 28, 2026; the source does not state whether the gallery plans related public programs or whether the presentation will travel to another venue.
Show Continues Through November
Striated remains on view at 22MUSE Gallery in Antwerp through Nov. 28, 2026, according to Design Milk. The source report gives no announced closing event, additional exhibition dates or plans for a subsequent venue. Further information about access and programming would need to come from the gallery.
Key Questions
Where is Jae Ko’s Striated exhibition?
It is on view at 22MUSE Gallery in Antwerp, Belgium.
How long is the exhibition scheduled to run?
The source report says Striated is on view through November 28, 2026.
What materials does Ko use for these sculptures?
Ko works with paper, including discarded office supplies, recycled kraft paper and adding-machine paper rolls. Some pieces also use sumi ink or pigmented inks.
What is included in Striated?
The exhibition brings together works from a formative period in Ko’s practice and a site-specific installation made for the gallery.
Is this Ko’s first exhibition in Belgium?
The source describes it as Ko’s first solo exhibition in Belgium; it does not say that she has never shown work in the country in any format.
Source: design-milk.com
