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Artist Jungyoon Hyen Reveals the Entanglement of Contemporary Beings through Relational Sculpture
The sculptures of Jungyoon Hyen (b. 1990) are rooted in the relationships between society, the individual, and the community. Observing how beings navigate daily life within power dynamics, the artist draws on these observations to create her work. Hyen’s sculptural figures, imbued with physical gestures, movements, and expressions, depict fluid and solidaristic situations.
2025.05.12
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[Critique] Mire Lee: Carriers
In her sculpture and installation work, Mire Lee uses machinery that operates by simple principles, along with materials that can be felt with the hands. For an artist who regards it as important to touch materials by hand as she works, machinery is a key element that contributes propulsion and repetition to the movements of the substances she touches.
2020.07.23
Exhibitions
“The 23rd SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition” on view through February 24, 2024, at SONGEUN
The SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition is a showcase of the latest works by leading emerging artists in contemporary Korean art in one place. This exhibition features the diversity of contemporary Korean art through the paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, and sound works of 20 young artists born between 1979 and 1990.
2023.12.13
Activities
Artist Kim Jipyeong and Public Art Project Unveiled
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Museum Director Yoon Bum-mo) and the Government Art Bank unveiled the final video of the public art project 'Public' on the Gangnam-daero media platform 'G-LIGHT' on the 22nd.
2022.12.22
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Exhibitions
《On Collecting Time》, 2023.03.09. - 2023.08.06, Nam June Paik Art Center
Nine artists/Teams are here, ranging in a wide temporal spectrum. 《On Collecting Time》, the new acquisitions exhibition presents their 11 works collected by Nam June Paik Art Center from 2020 to 2021, an unprecedented era of long-term closure of art museums. In a ‘strange time’ when
2023.03.07
