K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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Exhibitions
《Lukewarm Comfort and Good Bad Jokes》, 2024.06.26 – 2024.07.21, Artspace Boan
Henri Bergson wrote that the comic arises from rigidity. According to him, matter (form) slows and stiffens the living body in which the immaterial (spirit) moves freely. Laughter emerges when the deep resistance of matter, hidden beneath a harmonious surface, becomes exposed.[2] Let us place “painting as form” where Bergson’s matter stood, and “spirit”—that is, the latent mind or sentiment—where the immaterial resided.
2024.05.26
Articles
[Critique] 2022 PUBLIC ART NEW HERO - Capturing Fleeting Moments
Sejin Hong is an artist who paints the sensory experience of traversing between the material and immaterial, the real and the virtual. Drawing from her own experiences, she edits and reprocesses the subjectivity of auditory perception into visual outcomes. Through this process, she translates information accumulated through perception into phenomena that cannot otherwise be experienced, manifesting them on canvas and within space. She fills the blank spaces of auditory perception with images of simple shapes, lines, concrete spaces, and planes.
2022
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
[Critique] Opening the 'Adult Fairy Tale' through Imagination
Hyunsun Jeon’s paintings resemble fairy tale books with no text. Within them, exotic spaces and unfamiliar past times tumble about in a state of indefinable vagueness. These works are populated with grandmothers, girls, wolves, rabbits, wild boars—scenes filled with ambiguous incidents unfolding between humans and animals. The characters living in the time-space of a fairy tale continuously send and receive unspoken messages, forging their roles through mutual exchange.
2012.05.01
Activities
CHANEL x Frieze Select Six Artists for ‘Now & Next’ Project
Global luxury brand CHANEL and Frieze, one of the world’s three major art fairs, present the fourth season of the “Now & Next” video series, which highlights the perspectives and voices of contemporary Korean artists.
2025.08.04
Exhibitions
《Not Dream, Soul, or Art》, 2024.10.17 - 2024.11.16, Art Project CO
Art Project CO (CEO Eun-Hye Lim) is hosting 《Not Dream, Soul, or Art》, an exhibition featuring the participation of two artists, 'Lee In-Hyeon and Park Ki-Won', whose work is both elegant and quirky, academic yet innovative, different yet similar.
2024.10.15
