German-born artist Friedrich Kunath has made a life out of movement, going from East Germany to Los Angeles and, more recently, bouncing between Berlin, Austria and other temporary homes. In his first solo exhibition with Pace Gallery in Seoul, that restlessness becomes a landscape of its own, with distant horizons, cinematic sunsets and an unresolved longing for home. “The Nearest Faraway Place,” running through Oct. 24 at Pace Gallery in Itaewon, brings together new paintings and drawings that dwell on longing, melancholy and the search for home. The exhibition is Kunath’s second with Pace since joining the gallery’s program in 2025 and his first solo presentation in Seoul. The title comes from an instrumental song by the Beach Boys, whose lush harmonies Kunath cited as a model for balancing beauty with darker emotional undercurrent. But it also names the contradiction at the center of his practice: feeling close while remaining irretrievably distant. “I think it’s an inner condition,” Kunath said during an interview with The Korea Times, Saturday. “Right now, I feel I