K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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[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
Articles
Artist Sla Cha: The Logic of Games and Everyday Objects in Sculpture
Born in Germany—a country often associated with toys and machinery—Sla Cha (b. 1989) grew up fascinated by playing with toys derived from cartoons, films, and games. Drawing from this background, she has developed her practice as a sculptor by exploring the logic of games, as well as the scale and operational mechanisms of real-world objects.
2026.04.20
Exhibitions
《Young Korean Artists 2021》, 2021.05.28 – 2021.09.22, MMCA, Gwacheon
《Young Korean Artists 2021》 is the 20th exhibition of the MMCA's 《Young Korean Artists program》, which first began in 1981and now, as it celebrates its 40th anniversary, has become Korea's most time-honored and authoritative program dedicated to discovering young and emerging artists.
2021.05.26
Exhibitions
Kim Heejo's Solo Exhibition : "BYR: Prime Elements"
This exhibit is composed of three major parts.
On the wall to the left of the gallery entrance is ‘Schemata Chart,’ the artist’s drawing that reflects her points of view on world and art. Installed on the front wall are 33 (of 99 in the series) selected BYR units, and on the right and farther inside are five pieces of BYR_OS
2020.05.12
Articles
[Critique] Korea Artist Prize 2017 – Critique 2
Song Sanghee’s works are characterized by the coexistence of contrasting images and elements. On the one hand, Song identifies and comforts oppressed or weakened people, especially women and children,
2017
Exhibitions
Bek Hyunjin’s Solo Exhibition “Seoul Syntax” on View Through March 21, 2026, at PKM Gallery
PKM Gallery is pleased to present 《Seoul Syntax》, a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Bek Hyunjin, on view through March 21 at the annex. As an artist, musician, and actor, Bek has cultivated a diverse and boundary-defying practice. The exhibition brings together recent jangji (traditional Korean mulberry paper) paintings, drawings, and video set against the backdrop of Seoul, the city where the artist was born and raised.
2026.02.17
Exhibitions
《Signs of Bugahyeon-dong》, 2022.10.14. - 2022.11.10, Hapjungjigu
The network of connections that once seemed capable of extending endlessly in every direction has been helplessly ‘locked down.’ As parts of the vast structures surrounding us became paralyzed, humanity retreated into individual spaces, taking refuge in the unit
2020.05.06
