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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Typojanchi 2021: A Turtle and a Crane》, 2021.09.14 – 2021.10.17, Culture Station Seoul 284 Letters are alive. And to be alive is to move slowly, at length, lightly, and high. Under the poetic title 《A Turtle and a Crane》, the 7th Typojanchi revisited the vitality of type and the liveliness of visual language under the theme “Letters and Life.” Spanning the entire Culture Station Seoul 284, this
2021.09.14
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

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Mono Mansion》, 2023.07.21 – 2023.08.13, OUTHOUSE We all live in our own houses. Each “house” takes a different form, and our ideas and meanings of home are just as varied. Whatever shape that home may assume — whatever attitude we hold within it — we all step out of it, only to return again.
2023.07.20
Articles Artist Eunsol Lee, Exploring the Existence of Digital Objects Eunsol Lee (b. 1988) has been creating artworks based on the ongoing process of constructing, maintaining, and sustaining a virtual character named “Kimberly Lee” within digital networks. Through this process, Lee explores the existential value of digital objects within a digital value system—an intricate web formed by the overlapping economic activities of individual online platforms. At the same time, she researches various platforms and future habitats, planning and executing living environments that ensure Kimberly’s survival within the network.
2025.06.09

Mid-Career Artists

Activities Project ‘WHITE RAIN’: Two Perspectives on Spatial Exploration 'WHITE RAIN' presents a collaborative work by Minae Kim and Soon-Hak Kwon. Exhibiting together in the same room, the artists individually approach diverse spatial questions within their environment.
2012.06.01

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Interview] Inside and Outside the Frame: An Interview with Artist Kelvin Kyung Kun Park Mun Hyejin (Mun): In this interview I would like to focus on your new work Mirror Organs: A Play of Metonomy that will be shown in Korea Artist Prize 2017, and on some of your previous works that are related to them. Let us first talk about the new work. Though you must still have a lot of final decisions to make, my understanding is that the major structure is set up.
2017.08.14
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《When Two Galaxies Merge,》, 2017.09.08 – 2017.11.22, Atelier Hermès The exhibition 《When Two Galaxies Merge,》 by Yangachi (b. 1970) centers on the moment when things that cannot meet—or things that are inevitably bound to meet—collide. Yangachi likens this moment, when the impossible meets the inevitable, to “the moment love begins,” or to “an uncertain sign” of some event that will take place in the future.
2017.09.01
Articles [Essay] South Korean Artist Lee Donggi Blends Pop Culture and Contemporary Art A growing number of artists create artworks in a cartoon-like or anime style these days. This trend is not just because this particular form of art is getting popular among collectors but also because animation and cartoons have significantly impacted today’s society.
2022.05.16

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《The Origin》, 2012.12.08 – 2013.02.21, GoEun Museum of Photography From December 8, 2012 to February 21, 2013, the GoEun Museum of Photography presents a large-scale exhibition that brings together works revealing the origins and essence of photography. At a time when digital images proliferate, this exhibition offers a meaningful opportunity to reconsider photographic identity and to experience the fundamental power of the medium.
2012.12.08
Exhibitions 《Nine Dragons in Wonderland》, 2022.12.15 – 2023.02.10, The Page Gallery The Page Gallery presents 《Nine Dragons in Wonderland》, a solo exhibition by Yeesookyung (b. 1963), from December 15, 2022, to February 10, 2023.
2022.12.17