K-Artists
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
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Artist Jungin Kim’s ‘Open Paintings’: Imagining Through Landscapes of Fragmented Memories
Jungin Kim (b. 1991) has been creating what he calls “open paintings,” in which seemingly unrelated fragments of memory are placed together on a single canvas, prompting viewers to lose their way within the work and imagine their own stories. These fragments of memory, akin to pixels, are regarded as individuals; through the process of grafting them onto the canvas, an image of “solidarity” emerges.
2025.11.03
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Artist Hyunjeong Lim’s ‘Mindscape’: Imagination, Fantasy, and the Surreal
Hyunjeong Lim (b. 1987) has continued her painterly exploration of ‘Mindscape,’ presenting fantastical and surreal perspectives that reflect the realities of lived experience. Her work is grounded in intuitive drawing, in which images are rendered spontaneously by the movement of the hand. The resulting compositions invite viewers to slowly observe the surface in its entirety, evoking a wide range of emotional responses.
2026.03.23
Articles
[Critique] Mapping, Grouping, and Categorizing Donghyun Son
Perhaps it was the most natural flow of thought. I was thinking of his work all throughout watching the movie Deadpool. In Deadpool, there is a protagonist whose actions break the conventional stereotypes, constantly making jokes with various references.
2016
Exhibitions
《The Memories of the Future_Suh Younsun》, 2004.06.11 - 2004.07.18, Ilmin Museum of Art
I once found myself thinking: War fills myth, and myth fills history. Written down, the thought does not seem entirely wrong. Human beings wage wars to fulfill material or ideological desires. If war is the eruption of violence inherent in humanity, then myth may be understood as the aesthetic symbolization of that violent nature.
2004.06.09
