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Artist Kang Cheolgyu: Surreal Landscapes Reflecting the Inner Psyche
Kang Cheolgyu (b. 1990) presents narrative paintings in which reality and fiction intersect, drawing from autobiographical experiences. He projects his inner conflicts onto specific subjects and situations, reconstructing them through a symbolic visual language. The fictional worlds he builds on canvas function as psychological landscapes—symbolic spaces that metaphorically reflect his own reality.
2025.07.21
Exhibitions
《Light Choreography》, 2023.11.17 – 2023.12.22, Gallery SP
From November 17 to December 22, 2023, Gallery SP presented Rhee Donghoon’s solo exhibition 《Light Choreography》. This marked the artist’s second solo show at Gallery SP, following 《The Statue Knows How to Dance》(2021).
2023.11.15
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[Column] Hannah Woo: Reanimating the World
Hannah Woo’s fabric sculptures and “drawings” are perhaps direct descendants of craft-based productions that have occupied a peripheral position within the history of art—a history recorded and remembered predominantly by men.
2023.03.03
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[Critique] YANG Junguk : Life’s Storyteller
Artist, installation artist and kinetic artist YANG Junguk. These are a few titles referring to the artist. Since, while not always so, the things he makes often move, take up space in galleries in irregular ways, and in any case appear in the forms of physical sculpture, the description is actually not that false.
2020.09.07
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Exhibitions
《Neon Grey Terminal》, 2014.05.30 – 2014.08.02, HITE Collection
Jina Park portrays on canvas instant, coincidental moments of ordinary and usual situations that she snapshoots with her camera. Her new works in this solo show captures various scenes of people waiting in line for baggage sealing or boarding time, and for somebody’s arrival.
2014.05.28
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Artist Kim Beom’s Artworks Oscillating Between Humor and Cynicism
Kim Beom (b. 1963) humorously transforms the artist’s imagination from small everyday events into real objects. His work ranges from object works that transform everyday objects into new objects, to drawings and video works that realize the artist’s imagination, to publications in the form of monographs.
2024.07.16
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《Intimate Sisters》, 2022.08.29 – 2022.09.30, Duson Gallery
Yeesookyung’s work gathers discarded and wounded things to resurrect them as new beings, presenting fragments of life related to wounds and healing. By dismantling traditional forms and rebirthing them through a contemporary sculptural language, her work offers a visual meeting point between tradition and modernity.
2022.08.29
