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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Glove box》, 2024.03.02 – 2024.03.28, Alterside Taking the grotesque form of a “glove box”—a sealed container fitted with internal gloves used to control isolated materials—as its conceptual starting point, Chang Younghae explores the sensations of a body that is both part of “me” and, at the same time, subsumed as a material object within the professionalized domain of “the clinical.” In 《Glove box》, the “corpus” refers both to
2024.03.01
Exhibitions 《Left, over》, 2025.07.03 – 2025.08.28, PARKSEOBO FOUNDATION Jinhee Kim’s solo exhibition 《Left, over》 opens from July 3 to August 28 at the PARKSEOBO FOUNDATION 26SQM. The exhibition presents the artist's works, which depict the everyday life of oneself, others, and our shared experiences in a spectrum of light and color, and question the very notion of the ordinary.
2025.07.01

Emerging Artists

Articles [Critique] The Process of Balancing, and Only Seeing Left - The Recognition Structure of Heejoon LEE’s Painting Consisted of Covering or Exposing His work begins with figurative representation. Yet even while painting a landscape, the artist's gaze was not directed at what lay on the other side of the landscape.
2022
Articles [Analysis] Exhibition 《Materidelia》 Artwork Description Weavers’ Room immerses viewers in a quiet, intimate space where women are engaged in the timeless rituals of weaving and sewing.
2024.11.02

Mid-Career Artists

Activities “Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art,” the First English-language Anthology Focusing on Contemporary Korean Artists from the Millennial Generation, Has Been Published Skira editore and SONGEUN announced the publication of Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art by Andy St. Louis, a survey of Korean artists from the Millennial Generation.
2024.06.10

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Cotton Era》, 2020.10.07 – 2020.10.28, Alternative Space LOOP A question male artists to this day are never asked: Can you work while raising a child? In the first year of “motherhood,” women are susceptible to feelings of isolation.
2020.10.05
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Artist Haegue Yang Explores and Mediates the Multilayered Structure of the World Haegue Yang (b. 1971), who works and lives in Berlin and Seoul, is one of the most prominent contemporary artists working in Korea today. In 2018, she became the first Asian female artist to win Germany’s prestigious Wolfgang Hahn Art Prize, and in 2022, she became the first Korean to win the Benesse Prize.
2024.07.09
Articles Artist Gwon Osang Redefines Sculpture Through Photography Gwon Osang (b. 1974), known for his so-called "photo-sculptures," has continuously questioned the identity of sculpture while exploring new structural forms.
2024.12.17

Established Artists

Activities Heinkuhn Oh selected as recipient of the 10th Dong Gang Photography Award Heinkuhn Oh has been selected the recipient of the 10th Dong Gang Photography Award. Dong Gang Photography Award is presented annually by Dong Gang Museum of Photography to an artist who has made note-worthy contribution to the development of photography in Korea and has had extensive activity in the past ye
2011.07.01
Articles [Critique] Type Called ‘Middlemen’: Obscure Anxiety and Minute Rupture When Walter Benjamin announced a new experience in visual perception to be brought by the eye of a camera with high expectation in the early 20th century, photography had already been enthusiastically capturing everything in existence for many years. While many focused on the
2012