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“PANORAMA” on View Through October 16, 2025, at SONGEUN
SONGEUN is presenting the group exhibition 《PANORAMA》 through October 16. Part of the Korea Arts Management Service’s “Korean Artists Today” initiative, the exhibition brings together eight artists and collectives whose practices expand the possibilities of contemporary art, serving as a platform for long-term international engagement. Rather than adhering to a set theme, the show highlights each artist’s distinct voice.
2025.09.02
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Mire Lee Wins Special Prize at the 2021 Future Generation Art Prize
Aziz Hazara (Afghanistan) is the winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2021, the sixth edition of the global art prize for artists under 35, established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009. The winner was announced by the international jury at the online award ceremony on 8 December. Aziz Hazara received a total of 100,000 USD: 60,000 USD as a cash prize, and 40,000 USD to fund their artistic practice.
2021.12.14
Articles
[Critique] The Manifestation of Imagination and Transformation
Imagination plays a crucial role in Son Donghyun’s work. Though deeply personal and subjective, the visualization of imagination—developed with rigorous internal logic—gives concrete form to a pictorial world that once existed only as an abstract concept. The temporality of East Asian painting, once characterized by a linear flow, is dismantled and reconfigured through the artist’s creative act, emerging before us in the present moment.
2021
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Osang Gwon's Solo Exhibition "Osang Gwon" on View Through June 5, 2010 at DOOSAN Gallery, New York
DOOSAN Gallery New York is pleased to present four sculptures by South Korean-born artist Osang Gwon. The exhibition will open on Thursday, May 6th at DOOSAN Gallery New York, 533 West 25th Street, New York. The exhibition features four works from Gwon’s Deodorant Type series dated from 1999 to 2010. This quantity of works may seem small, but these works tell a brief history of how Gwon’s style evolved since he started this series.
2010.05.06
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[Critique] Korea Artist Prize 2017 – Critique 1
Song Sanghee is an artist who exemplifies the growth and development of Korean art venues since the 2000s. Around the turn of the millennium, Song took part in various activities at alternative art spaces, which were then beginning to flourish, helping to reinterpret the legacy of Minjung art (or “People’s art”) and feminist art. She soon began gaining renown for her agile experimentations
2017
Articles
[Column] Prometheus Love Song: Atta Kim
“There can be no freedom without madness to sever the rope.” No aphorism better represents the artistic world of Atta Kim than this line from Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel Zorba the Greek. The essence of Atta Kim’s practice—seeking to dismantle religious taboos, social conventions, the limits of the body, and the boundary between the sacred and the profane—ultimately converges on the question of how human beings can acquire freedom.
2002
