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Young Artists

Exhibitions 《July 12, 2008, Apartment 507, Building 106, Cheonggu 3rd Complex》, 2025.09.18 – 2025.10.25, Culture Salon 5120 As part of the Youth Week curated program, Dahoon Nam’s solo exhibition 《July 12, 2008, Apartment 507, Building 106, Cheonggu 3rd Complex》 will be held from Thursday, September 18 to Saturday, October 25 at Culture Salon 5120 (B1, Gongneung Happy Housing).
2025.09.17
Exhibitions “Land Ho!” on View Through May 10, 2026, at Sweep Seoul Sweep Seoul inaugurates its space with the group exhibition 《Land Ho!》, on view through May 10. The exhibition title, “Land Ho!,” echoes the cry of a sailor who, after drifting across the vast ocean, finally spots a faint horizon beyond the sea—an exclamation that signals both the end of a long journey and the beginning of a new one.
2026.04.14

Emerging Artists

Articles [Critique] Art in Practice after Sewol Ferry Disaster “It will be cloudy across the country with rains in many places in the southern regions.”Those were the words formed by the immaculate cut–up strips of metal foil neatly arranged on the window. Then the sky gradually grew darker, and it really began to rain. As the raindrops began to glide down the glass window against the sullen scenery outside, the overlapping sentence took on an uncanny meaning. I found myself reading the same sentence over and over again.
2020
Exhibitions “Rales, wheezes and crackles” on View Through December 17, 2022, at Doosan Gallery Doosan Gallery, a nonprofit gallery located in Jongno-gu, Seoul, is presenting a special exhibition entitled Rales, wheezes and crackles until December 17, 2022. A total of 13 works, including five from the Doosan Yonkang Foundation collection, will be presented at the exhibition. The works are by seven artists born between the 1990s and 1970s, including Jiyoung Keem, Sejin Park, Joo Yeon Park, Nakhee Sung, Seung Ae Lee, Kai Oh, and Hyori Cho.
2022.12.05

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《RECONSTRUCTION SITE》, 2016.04.20 - 2016.05.10, Space O'NewWall An attachment to vanishing entities is an instinctive sensibility of the photographer. When what is disappearing reflects significant transformations in society, this attachment is further imbued with a historical imperative.
2016.04.18

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Analysis] Ayoung Kim’s〈Porosity Valley 2: Tricksters Plot〉 When artists collect, analyze and arrange materials for a project, they often capture new possibilities that those materials hold.
2019

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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions “IMA Picks 2024” on View Through November 17, 2024, at Ilmin Museum of Art Ilmin Museum of Art presents “IMA Picks 2024” on view through November 17. Now in its third year, “IMA Picks” has been a program that presents solo exhibitions of three artists who demonstrate the horizons of perception shared by a particular group or community in the current era.
2024.10.01
Articles [Essay] South Korean Artist Lee Donggi Blends Pop Culture and Contemporary Art A growing number of artists create artworks in a cartoon-like or anime style these days. This trend is not just because this particular form of art is getting popular among collectors but also because animation and cartoons have significantly impacted today’s society.
2022.05.16

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Ghosts, Objects, Sculpture: The Sculptural Moment of Chung Seoyoung¹ Chung Seoyoung has always introduced herself as a sculptor, but the language required to read her sculptures is far from those prescribed to modernist works of art. It is the language of “objects,” above all else. Pedestals have been removed.
2023
Exhibitions 《Koo Bohnchang》, 2018.12.14 - 2019.03.17, Kukje Gallery Kukje Gallery is pleased to present 《Koo Bohnchang》, a solo exhibition of work by the artist on view from December 14, 2018, through March 17, 2019, at the gallery’s Busan space.
2018.12.12