K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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[Critique] Objects that Coldly Touch the Heart
Sejin Hong is an artist who paints the sensory experience of traversing between the material and immaterial, the real and the virtual. Drawing from her own experiences, she edits and reprocesses the subjectivity of auditory perception into visual outcomes. Through this process, she translates information accumulated through perception into phenomena that cannot otherwise be experienced, manifesting them on canvas and within space. She fills the blank spaces of auditory perception with images of simple shapes, lines, concrete spaces, and planes.
2021.09.20
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Artist Lim Jeong Soo: On the Ways the Subject “I” Is Defined
Lim Jeong Soo (b. 1988) has developed a practice centered on sculpture and related performance, with a particular interest in the byproducts generated by social conventions that persist from the past into the present. Asking, “Why do we regard certain actions as right and others as not?”, the artist investigates what factors influence such determinations and how the subject of the “I” that perceives them is defined.
2026.04.27
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[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
Exhibitions
《Bloody Bundan Blues》, 2018.09.04 – 2018.11.11, Gwangju Museum of Art
The Gwangju Museum of Art presents the commemorative photography exhibition 《Bloody Bundan Blues》 from September 4 to November 11, 2018, in celebration of the 2018 Gwangju Biennale. The exhibition is held at the Gwangju Museum of Photography, located within the Gwangju Culture and Art Center, with the opening ceremony scheduled for September 11 at 5 PM.
2018.09.01
