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“Nostalgics on realities” on View Through March 9, 2024, at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul
Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul presents the group exhibition “Nostalgics on realities” through March 9. Curated by Kim Sung woo, “Nostalgics on realities” presents new and recent work by six contemporary artists: Jesse Chun, Eugene Jung, Yongju Kwon, Minsun, Hwayeon Nam and Yooyun Yang. Following the three-person show “Myths of Our Time” in 2023, this group exhibition is the second at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul to focus solely on Korean artists, highlighting their diverse contributions to Korea’s thriving contemporary art scene.
2024.01.31
Activities
Paintings Descending from the Wall to the Floor, Surrounding the Viewer Like a Folding Screen
Many of the recent headlines shaking up the art world center around young artists. As artists in their 30s and 40s sign exclusive contracts with major international galleries or hold solo exhibitions at globally renowned museums—even those unfamiliar with art would recognize—the excitement grows that, much like the early days of K-pop, talented artists discovered in Korea may soon be at the center of the global art market.
2024.08.23
Articles
[Critique] Jeongsu Woo | The Grave of Books
Books stacked tightly in a library collapse, and in the midst of the debris of books and objects pouring out from a wrecked ship and drifting across the sea, carnivorous animals appear and engage in a bewildering struggle with books
2016.04.08
Exhibitions
《World-stasis》, 2023.11.19 - 2023.12.20, Amado Art Space
The Amado Photography Award is an international photography open call targeting artists under the age of 40 of Korean and Asian nationalities. Established as both an award and an exhibition, it seeks to focus on the specificity and expansiveness of photography as a medium within the
2023.11.17
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Exhibitions
《Ixtlan Stop》, 2007.09.11 – 2007.11.04, Arario Gallery Cheonan
The exhibition title 《Ixtlan Stop》 is drawn from Yoon Young Park’s deep inspiration from ‘Journey to Ixtlan’, a novel by Carlos Castaneda. In the novel, “Ixtlan” refers to a fictional space connected to our world—a place devoid of mundane human emotions such as sorrow, desire,
2007.09.11
Articles
Artist Yeondoo Jung Overlaps the Worlds of Fiction and Reality
Yeondoo Jung (b. 1969) has been in the spotlight in the domestic and international art worlds for his intriguing performance and staging-oriented photography, video, and installation works that blur the lines between fiction and reality with stories of ordinary people and historical events. Last year, he was selected as an artist for the MMCA Hyundai Motor series at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA).
2024.07.09
Exhibitions
《Cosmetic Girls》, 2008.11.28 – 2009.01.23, Kukje Gallery
Kukje Gallery presents the exhibition 《Cosmetic Girls》 by photographer Heinkuhn Oh.
Since his ‘Ajumma’ series in 1999, Oh has continuously explored and visualized specific social groups and classes within Korean society. In the late 1990s, his series ‘Ajumma’ captured the anxious gaze of middle-aged
2008.11.28
