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New Artists

Exhibitions “Young Korean Artists 2025: Here and Now” on View Through October 12, 2025, at MMCA Gwacheon The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) presents 《Young Korean Artists 2025: Here and Now》 until October 12 at its Gwacheon branch. This exhibition is the 22nd edition of 《Young Korean Artists》, a regular program by the MMCA and the longest-running initiative in Korea supporting emerging artists.
2025.04.29
Exhibitions KWON Hyun Bhin and HWANG Wonhae’s Two-Person Exhibition Here, Me on View Through November 16, 2024, at KICHE KICHE presents “Here, Me,” a two-person exhibition featuring HWANG Wonhae and KWON Hyun Bhin, on view through November 16.
2024.10.22

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Modular Vision》, 2021.11.19 – 2021.12.19, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art The solo exhibition 《Modular Vision》 by artist Hwang Wonhae is currently on view at SOMA Museum of Art, operated by the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation, and will run until December 19.
2021.11.22
Articles Artist Hannah Woo’s Hybrid and Horizontal World Woven in Fabric Hannah Woo (b.1988) presents works that transcend genre boundaries—from two-dimensional pieces to sculptures and installations—using fabric as her primary medium to explore situations where opposing forces and entities such as the living and the inanimate, the protector and the protected, aging and youth, pain and ecstasy, merge and complement one another.
2025.05.01

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Kim Minae's Sculptures of Space: On the Multilayered Relationships Between the Individual and Society Kim Minae (b. 1981) has continued to explore and indirectly reveal the multilayered frameworks or systems that individuals experience and perceive within society.
2025.01.28

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Frieze Film Seoul 2023》, 2023.08.22 – 2023.09.09, Insa Art Space Under the title ‘It was the way of walking through narrative’, Frieze Film 2023 approaches narrative in film and video as a methodology of excavation.
2023.08.22
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《The Medium : Layered, Lined》, 2019.10.16 – 2019.11.23, UARTSPACE In painting, the flatness is the essence of modernist painting and suggests a significant direction and point of view to see a contemporary painting as an independent area that distinguishes it from other artistic genres.
2019.10.16
Articles [Critique] Unbound Assemblage: The Sculptural “-ic” Movements of Kwon Osang and Haneyl Choi The constraints of the system called the “contemporary,” which constantly demands renewal, are also applied to art, driving repeated transformations through frameworks such as expansion, deconstruction, recontextualization
2022.08.23

Established Artists

Articles [Column] Painter·Sculptor Suh Yongsun Examining the Fundamental Spirit of Human Resistance For Suh Yongsun, language—recorded text—which serves as the essential mechanism through which we learn and understand history as a means of interpreting reality, has its limits. In his view, history begins the moment it departs from reality.
2020
Articles [Critique] Practicing Art: Ahn Kyuchul Snow will, “inevitably,” melt and disappear. Precisely for this reason, the artist declares—in a notice affixed beneath the pedestal—that he will not exhibit a marble sculpture representing snow. This notice itself becomes the work.
2024