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Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.

Mid-Career:
3 K-Artists This Week

Mid-Career
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Young Artists

Articles Daewon Yun: Exploring Bodily Possibilities Between the Real and the Virtual Daewon Yun (b. 1993) explores how the contemporary body is perceived and how it forms relationships by combining performance with media technologies. Grounded in his interest in “dance” and “action,” Yun has continuously examined shifting concepts of the body and structures of sensation as they are transformed within media environments.
2026.01.12
Exhibitions 《Is there any place for us?》, 2021.08.19 – 2021.09.11, ThisWeekendRoom ThisWeekendRoom presents a two person exhibition by Moka Lee and Jiwon Choi, 《Is there any place for us?》 The title of the exhibition is inspired by a novel, ‘From the Zero Person’s Point of View’ (2019), written by Yoon Haeseo;
2021.08.15

Emerging Artists

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
Articles [Critique] Pictorial Space: Constructed and Extended Scaffolding is a “temporary structure installed to aid construction works in higher altitudes.” It is typically erected temporarily during construction processes and gets dismantled upon the construction’s completion. Scaffoldings serve as an essential structure during the process of construction as it bridges between
2023.05.05

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Soh Boram: On Marginalized Beings in Human History Soh Boram (b. 1984) has explored audiovisual methodologies that reflect on the relationship between marginalized human lives and her own experiences amid urbanization and redevelopment, while also revealing the often-overlooked sacrifices of nonhuman beings throughout human history and their relationship to humanity.
2026.08.24

Late Mid-Career Artists

Activities Art Galleries Heat Up with Unconventional Marketing… Gana Art Gallery Launches ‘We Make Price’ Aggressive and proactive marketing strategies by galleries seeking to break through the stagnating art market are drawing attention. At the forefront is Gana Art Gallery (CEO Lee Ok Kyung), the first in Korea’s gallery sector to introduce a social commerce-based project titled “We Make Price,” offering artworks by artists at more accessible prices.
2013.05.13

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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Artist Yoo Seungho’s Playful Paintings: Exploring the Relationship Between Writing and Drawing Yoo Seungho (b. 1974) creates paintings where text and image engage in a playful relationship, forming a single cohesive image. However, the words used in his works do not align semantically with the images.
2025.02.04
Exhibitions 《Stories & Dreams》, 2018.10.25 – 2019.08.18, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (Director: Eunju Choi) presents 《Stories & Dreams》, a homecoming event commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Children’s Mural Project, along with an ongoing educational exhibition.
2018.10.24

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Lee Bul – Beginning》, 2021.03.02 – 2021.05.16, Seoul Museum of Art, Seosomun Main Branch Lee Bul––Beginning is an exhibition focusing on the internationally renowned artist Lee Bul’s first decade of artistic development, during which her "soft sculpture" and performance works were produced extensively.
2021.03.01
Articles [Critique] THE FAKE AS MORE “This twenty-first-century modernity, born of global and decentralized negotiations, of multiple discussions among participants from different cultures, of the confrontation of heterogeneous discourses, can only be polyglot.
2010