K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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Exhibitions
《Random Play》, 2025.01.09 – 2025.01.19, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon PS333
《Random Play》 takes as its starting point the exhibition of the same title held in 2022. This project emerged from Daseul Song’s working method, which does not confine images and moving images to mere visual information but recognizes them as objects with volume, recontextualizing or decontextualizing each unit according to the environments through which they circulate.
2025.01.07
Exhibitions
“Dreaming by Day” on View Through July 8, 2026, at Wooran Foundation
The Wooran Foundation presents the special exhibition 《Dreaming by Day》 through July 8, examining the sense of helplessness and fatigue that individuals encounter amid a rapidly changing society. Having long explored the aesthetics embedded in the skilled hands of artisans and the processes of making, the foundation expands the value of “making” from the realm of material craft into that of the mind and imagination through this exhibition.
2026.06.30
Activities
Winners of the 13th SongEun Art Award Announced
The SongEun Art Award, which aims to support promising young Korean artists, marks its 13th edition this year. Out of a total of 503 applicants, Hyesoo Park was selected as the Grand Prize winner, while Suki Seokyeong Kang, Jieun Kim, and Hyerim Cha were each awarded Excellence Prizes. An exhibition showcasing the works of these four artists is currently on view at SongEun Art Space until February 15.
2014.01.15
Articles
[Critique] Impossible thus Possible: The Philosophy of Minouk Lim
Minouk Lim is interested in that which is invisible. However, this does not mean her intention is to dismiss the visible and reinstate what is not. In other words, she does not adopt anti-representationalism, but instead attempts to ‘testify’ on behalf of what is invisible. This method is of considerable interest, since
2012
Articles
Artist Ik-Joong Kang Connects the World Through the Art
Since his first year abroad in 1984, the artist, who had been working part-time and attending school at the same time, carried several small 3-inch (7.6cm×7.6cm) canvases in his pocket and worked on them on the subway in his spare time.
2024.09.03
