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Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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[Critique] About ‘Golden Paintings, Bodily Shouting out Love’
Color is by far the most conspicuous element of a painting, or any work of art liable to be ‘hanged on a wall’. However Changkon Lim’s paintings have none of that. By ‘none’ I do not mean the nonexistence of color, but the singleness of color used by the artist.
2022
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Artist Ko Woori: Recording Shifting Emotions Within Human Relationships
Ko Woori (b. 1989) has explored the unstable flows of emotion that arise within various relationships, translating them into painting and installation works. Through recording the anxiety and tension experienced in human relationships, the artist investigates the performative nature of “painting,” approaching it as an act akin to performance, while experimentally employing the material properties of diverse media.
2026.06.15
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Artist Ahnnlee Lee’s Paintings: ‘Gestures’ Formed in Relationship with Natural Objects
Ahnnlee Lee (b. 1985) begins his work by observing the small, seemingly insignificant beings and moments that exist around him. He intimately examines quiet presences in his surroundings, such as the plants he nurtures or leftover grapevines, and translates their pure essence into paintings based on his own sensory perception.
2025.03.11
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[Review] Yangachi - Night of Burning Bone and Skin (Hakgojae Gallery 2014.06.20~08.10)
Five years after 《Middle Corea》, a project addressing political and social issues in Korea, Yangachi returns with a solo exhibition titled 《Night of Burning Bone and Skin》. While the earlier exhibition had a somewhat hopeful ending—destroying old systems and criticizing the present to envision a new world—this new exhibition, though retaining a critical perspective on society, seems devoid of hope.
2014.06.20
Exhibitions
“PANORAMA” on View Through October 28, 2023, at SONGEUN
From August 16 to October 28, SONGEUN will present PANORAMA, an exhibition featuring 16 artists (teams). The exhibition aims to shed light on each of the 16 artists’ works in time for the Korean art scene to take center stage with Kiaf Seoul and Frieze Seoul in September. To do so, the exhibition is organized in a way that separates the exhibition space for each artist, rather than presenting the works together under one theme.
2023.08.23
Exhibitions
《Connect 1: Still Acts》, 2016.08.27 – 2016.11.20, Art Sonje Center
The Art Sonje Center is pleased to present 《Connect 1: Still Acts》 to be held from August 27 to November 20, 2016. Artists Chung Seoyoung, Sora Kim and Lee Bul will participate in the exhibition, which constitutes the first part of the “Connect” series, a survey of the history and collection of Art Sonje.
2016.08.14
