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Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.

Mid-Career:
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Young Artists

Exhibitions 《The Naked Face rising out of the Marble》, 2024.09.19 – 2024.10.19, Laheen Gallery The exhibition 《The Naked Face rising out of the Marble》 finds its curatorial point of departure in a line from a poem that speaks of “turning aside” — from certain systems, forms, or one’s own gaze — as the very means by which one builds something new and confronts the world anew each day.
2024.09.17
Articles Artist Goyoson, Boundaryless Sculptures Formed Within Mutable Relationships Goyoson (b. 1995) creates sculptures where the artist’s inner world and the world we live in organically converge. He discovers new sensory possibilities among everyday objects not traditionally used as sculptural materials and transforms their forms within various spatiotemporal contexts.
2025.05.12

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《NEW INDÉPENDANT: BEING-SENSE》, 2024.08.28 – 2024.09.18, Yangpyeong Art Museum One of the most important roles of a contemporary art museum is to reflect the discourse of its time through new artworks. In practice, however, this requires considerable deliberation. It is often more stable, in many respects,
2024.08.28
Exhibitions 《INVENTORY》, 2021.06.03 – 2021.06.27, SeMA Storage As part of the 2021 Emerging Artists Exhibition Support Program, the exhibition 《INVENTORY》 focuses on the spatial characteristics of the SeMA Storage, which was formerly used as a reagent warehouse—specifically, its function as a space for organizing and arranging items.
2021.06.21

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Maybe it’s like that》, 2021.10.28 – 2021.12.18, OCI Museum of Art With a diverse career spanning solo and group exhibitions, awards, and residencies, Yang Jung Uk’s solo exhibition 《Maybe it's like that》 opened on October 28 and will run until November 28. OCI Museum, where the exhibition is being held, has a long-standing relationship with the artist.
2021.10.26

Late Mid-Career Artists

Activities Noblesse Collection Participates in “West Bund Art & Design” with 10 Korean Artists Noblesse Collection announced that it will participate, in collaboration with ArtNow China, in “West Bund Art & Design” (hereafter West Bund), taking place from the 10th to the 13th at the West Bund Art Center in Shanghai.
2022.11.11

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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Artist Yangachi, Reflecting on the Complex Relationship Between Technology and Society Through Art Media artist Yangachi (b. 1970) has explored the influence and nature of technology on society, culture, and politics, beginning with his web-based works in the early 2000s.
2024.11.05
Exhibitions 《Lyrics of Cheap Android 2 (Robot Nocturne)》, 2020.01.31 – 2020.02.02, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center An android—also called a humanoid robot—is a fully artificial life-form that resembles humans in shape and movement, skin and facial expression. As is well known, the 13th-century German theologian and natural scientist Albertus Magnus
2020.01.31

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Twilight》, 2017.10.26. - 2017.12.02, KICHE Gallery Kiche is proud to announce Kim Eull’s solo exhibition 《Twilight》. In his first show with Gallery Kiche, Kim presents a series of ‘Twilight Zone’ installations which are reconstructions of his studios. While the mediums presented are varied—including sculpture
2017.10.24
Exhibitions 《Artists and Moon Jar》, 2009.01.15 – 2009.02.10, Gallery Hyundai Gallery Hyundai Gangnam opens the new year of 2009 with 《Artists and Moon Jar》, an exhibition centered on the moon jar, a subject that represents the beauty of Korean aesthetics.
2009.01.13