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New Artists

Exhibitions 《PERFORM 2019》, 2019.08.27 – 2019.08.31, Asia Culture Center, Ilmin Museum of Art PERFORM 2019 operates an art café titled “Linkin-out.” In this café-style exhibition, visitors select and rent works of art, which are then served to their tables. This format allows audiences to closely observe and physically engage with the works, enabling a deeper form of access—or “link-in”—to the artworks.
2019.08.25
Exhibitions 《Following the Curves》, 2025.04.25 – 2025.05.31, WESERHALLE (Berlin, DE) Weserhalle is pleased to present 《Following the Curves》, the debut solo exhibition in Germany by Korean artist Jiwon Choi.
2025.04.23

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Noun to Verb》, 2024.10.26 - 2025.01.18, KCS ppuri Seeun Kim's solo exhibition 《Noun to Verb》 is on view at ppuri of the cultural and arts platform KCS (Kumsung Cultural Space) founded by Kumsung Publishing, until January 18, 2025.
2024.10.25
Articles Artist Chang Hanna: On the Interwoven Today’s Realities of the Natural and the Artificial Chang Hanna (b. 1988) is interested in the various desires humans possess and explores through her work how those desires return to us in different ways. In particular, she focuses on the phenomenon in which artificial objects produced by human desire and capital become part of nature and take on new forms. She reveals her collected, observed, and researched findings on this subject through photography, drawing, installation, video, and other media.
2025.12.29

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《BEAK Jungki: All in One》, 2023.05.24 – 2023.07.01, Arario Gallery ARARIO GALLERY Seoul presents BEAK Jungki’s solo exhibition 《All in One 》 from 24 May to 1 July 2023. The works of BEAK Jungki (b. 1981) are constructed through a process that delves profoundly into the essence of materials and explores specific subjects of interest through deep research and scientific experimentation, through a hands-on-approach conducted personally by the artist for the visualization of his in-depth explorations.
2023.05.23

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Essay] Artist Son Donghyun, From Traditional Portraits of Contemporary Figures to Studying Korean Paper in the Spirit of Traditional Korean Landscape Painters Son Donghyun is a contemporary South Korean artist who defies the conventions of traditional Korean paintings, such as figure paintings, Munjado (pictorial ideographs), Sipjangsaengdo (ten longevity symbols painting), and other Minhwa (Korean folk art).
2022.04.04
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《CHEMICAL VOLUME》, 2021.10.01 – 2021.11.06, P21 Starting October 1 through November 6, 2021, P21 presents Hyungkoo Lee’s solo exhibition 《CHEMICAL VOLUME》. Following 《PENETRALE》(2019), this is the artist’s second solo exhibition at P21, featuring six new works installed across the two venues, P1 and P2.
2021.10.01
Articles [Critique] The Way a Form Exists in Time Three Venus heads are installed on the wall of the gallery building. They are the “soap pieces” installed outside, in the very midst of the hot and humid weather, for Meekyoung Shin’s solo exhibition.
2018

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Ability vs. Invisibility》, 2017.03.02 – 2017.04.15, Tina Kim Gallery Tina Kim Gallery is delighted to present 《Ability vs. Invisibility》, the first solo exhibition in the United States by South Korean artist Chung Seoyoung. Following her first group show in New York, Two Hours (2016)—also presented by Tina Kim Gallery—Chung will present a range of works from 2007 to the present in the upcoming exhibition, on view from March 2 to April 15, 2017.
2017.03.02
Articles Kim Tschoon-su’s Blue Paintings: A Journey into the Nature of Painting Kim Tschoon-su (b. 1957), a leading figure in the ‘Post-Dansaekhwa’ group and the artist of ‘Ultra Marine’, has attracted attention for his unique finger painting technique, in which he wears thin gloves instead of brushes, and uses paint on his palms and fingers to ‘touch’ the canvas to build up thin layers of color.
2024.07.30