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
《Deleted World: Dele’s Room》, 2024.04.01 – 2024.04.07, Rainbow Cube
Deleted World is an AI music film that unfolds by following the sounds of an android nun named Dele (@dele.world). Dele’s voice is generated through the learning of bodily sounds that are processed as errors. Borrowing this voice, the work produces inflammations that are damp, itchy, and unwelcome.
2024.04.01
Articles
[Critique] Kim Heecheon - Living amid Moving Image
When more than a century ago, Thomas Edison invented the motion picture camera and its viewer, he thought of moving images as nothing more than some insignificant flickering images, which briefly appear through a tiny hole in a coin-operated machine. But with technology transitioning from film to digital media, there has been a bewildering evolution in moving images.
2020.01.21
Exhibitions
“PANORAMA” on View Through October 16, 2025, at SONGEUN
SONGEUN is presenting the group exhibition 《PANORAMA》 through October 16. Part of the Korea Arts Management Service’s “Korean Artists Today” initiative, the exhibition brings together eight artists and collectives whose practices expand the possibilities of contemporary art, serving as a platform for long-term international engagement. Rather than adhering to a set theme, the show highlights each artist’s distinct voice.
2025.09.02
Exhibitions
“Referential” on View Through July 11, 2026, at HITE Collection
HITE Collection presents a special exhibition 《Referential》 on view through July 11. The exhibition examines the points of mutual reference between photography and sculpture within today’s visual environment, where digital media and AI-driven data proliferate, blurring the boundaries between material and immaterial, original and copy. It explores how the two mediums participate in each other’s understanding and move across their respective borders.
2026.05.19
Articles
[Critique] Drawing Out the Invisible
Koo Jeong A transforms mundane materials into profound sensory experiences. Her work challenges conventional perception, exploring boundaries between presence and absence while rethinking how art engages with space and community.
2025
Articles
Artist Ahn Kyuchul Reveals the Invisible Side of Life and Things
Artist Ahn Kyuchul (b. 1955) has been relentlessly seeking alternative prospects of contemporary art through profound examination on life and art since the mid-1980s. Acclaimed for his complex yet delicate artistic vocabulary incorporating reflections on daily life, as well as close observations of everyday objects and language, Ahn has constructed a body of work. His visual language, deeply rooted in a conceptual approach and oblique representations of reality, allows viewers to reassess the essence of human nature and objects while confronting the irrationalities and paradoxes of modern life.
2024.08.20
Articles
[Critique] On Living and Disappearing: Lee Gapchul
Lee Gapchul is a fortunate photographer. He is one of the rare artists whose work is deeply understood by a wide audience. When his photography began opening toward a singular world in the 1980s, he was already sharing a poor yet passionate life with fellow artists in a dark room in Seongnam, and his work was never ignored by critics.
2007
