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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Suture: Rewired》, 2024.12.07 – 2024.12.20, Arcade Seoul The term “suture” refers to the act of stitching a wound closed during a surgical procedure. Looking back at the history of Western medicine from the 16th to the 18th century, surgeries were conducted in amphitheaters. Beyond the intention of demonstrating surgical principles to other surgeons, surgical operations became a form of spectacle;
2024.12.06
Exhibitions 《Exoskeleton》, 2024.04.26 – 2024.06.08, P21 Their internal anatomy externalised, exoskeletons are both haven and spectacle, offering shelter and concealment for the animals they encase. Our perceptions, often focused on our external existence, obscure our enigmatic
2024.04.25

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Pain Is Left After the Bite》, 2024.06.07 – 2024.07.20, Philipp Zollinger In his sculptures, installations, and videos, Tak examines human belief systems and their impact on societal and cultural structures.
2024.06.01
Articles [Review] We are drawn to what is repulsive Adrift deep beneath the sea, a life form seems to have appeared, swimming desperately upward in the hope of finding air above the surface.
2023.07

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Chu Mirim’s Painting: Capturing Digital Nostalgia and Urban Sensibility Chu Mirim (b. 1982) uses the everyday environments in which contemporary people live as an interface, setting them within the contexts of the web and the city, and documenting them through paintings and video works.
2025.02.25

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Somewhere Underneath》, 2014.12.04 – 2014.01.31, HADA Contemporary (London) HADA Contemparary presents the first UK solo exhibition by Ham Jin (b.1978). He has been best known for his dark and whimsical sculptures, which often incorporated banal objects transforming them into subjects of his wild creativity. This exhibition will bring all new works by the artist that clearly denotes his progression into abstraction that embody the boundless fragile unconsciousness and its beyond.
2014.12.01
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Koo Jeong A’s Artwork Crosses Boundaries to Reveal the Poetic Side of the Ordinary Koo Jeong A (b. 1967) captures the fleeting qualities of everyday scenes and objects around the world, bringing forth the poetic aspects of ordinariness in her work, which continues to gain international recognition.
2024.09.17
Exhibitions Osang Gwon's Solo Exhibition "SCULPTURE" on View Through June 2, 2011 at DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul DOOSAN Gallery Seoul presents the exhibition of Osang Gwon’s works of art entitled ‘Sculpture’ from May 6 to June 2. This exhibition consists of about 10 works selected from his recent series, The Flat.
2011.05.06

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Uninhabited Island》, 2025.06.05 – 2025.08.17, Yeosu Expo Art Gallery The Yeosu Expo Art Gallery will present the solo exhibition 《Uninhabited Island》 by Kang Hong-Goo from June 5 to August 17. This exhibition was organized as a thematic exhibition centered on “islands,” held in celebration of the successful hosting of the 2026 Yeosu World Island Expo.
2025.06.05
Exhibitions 《My Own Blind Spots》, 2019.09.21 – 2019.11.02, Commonwealth and Council (LA) Inhwan Oh’s 《My Own Blind Spots》 couples video surveillance with a meditation on the order of seeing and being seen to reveal processes of social and cultural subversion synced across two galleries: Commonwealth and Council and Baik Art.
2019.09.20