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New Artists

Articles WONJEONG DEPARTMENT STORE: Drawing Unstable Fantasies into the Body and the Screen WONJEONG DEPARTMENT STORE (b. 1999) explores desire for fantastical images and the ways these images connect the body to the world, primarily through media installations and performance. Drawing fleeting and unstable fantasies into the body and onto the screen, the artist experiments with bodily sensations experienced both online and offline.
2026.01.12
Exhibitions 《Cost of Recovery》, 2020.06.16 – 2020.07.18, CR Collective As the viewer enters the exhibition hall containing 《Cost of Recovery》, they encounter a situation in which green windows color what would be normally a gray space, and an installation that captures the scene of some working environment is laid out in a somewhat dry manner.
2020.06.15

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Ecstasy on the Surface》, 2019.08.21 – 2019.09.27, The Hope College De Pree Art and Gallery The Hope College De Pree Art and Gallery will host the multimedia exhibition “Ecstasy on the Surface,” featuring work by the college’s 2019 Borgeson Artist-in-Residence, Leekyung Kang, from Wednesday, Aug. 21, through Friday, Sept. 27.
2019.08.12
Exhibitions 《Human Stain》, 2021.08.27 – 2021.09.15, Space Willing N Dealing Park Noh-wan works on painting based on watercolors. Mixing Arabian rubber, it has a strong density instead of thin application unique to watercolors, and Matier is naturally made, showing a unique coloring format.
2021.08.26

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Gala Porras-Kim Explores the Life of Relics Within Institutional Spaces Korean-Colombian artist Gala Porras-Kim (b. 1984) has been interested in how traces of past civilizations are defined and reinterpreted within contemporary contexts.
2025.01.14

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Mind Stream》, 2020.03.24 – 2020.05.11, Art Sonje Center Art Sonje Center presents 《Mind Stream》, a solo exhibition by Hwayeon Nam from March 24 to May 10, 2020. Hwayeon Nam draws the trajectories where historical time meets physical time.
2020.03.20
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] The Rusty Reality of the World: Painting as a Struggle Against Contemporariness Some people might wonder why we should rethink works by Jaeho Jung at this point. Is it because Jung has documented what has happened in our cities since modernization? Or is it because he has pursued Korean traditional painting which struggles to survive in contemporary art? Neither
2018
Exhibitions 《From Berlin to Seoul: Crossing Horizons》, 2023.07.07 – 2023.08.24, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, HORI Artspace, and AIF Lounge, in collaboration with Bermel von Luxburg Gallery CHOI&CHOI Gallery, HORI Artspace, and AIF Lounge, in collaboration with Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, present 《From Berlin to Seoul: Crossing Horizons》. The exhibition celebrates a significant milestone in the cultural exchange between Germany and Korea, marking 140 years of artistic dialogue, collaboration
2023.07.07

Established Artists

Articles Artist Cho Duck Hyun Revives the Faded Memories Cho Duck Hyun (b.1957) is known for his drawings in pencils that resemble black and white photographs, and installation works based on the drawings. Cho reconstructs the vestiges of the past through his artworks and focuses on the existence and fate of individuals within the larger Korean modern history.
2024.07.23
Articles [Critique] On Living and Disappearing: Lee Gapchul Lee Gapchul is a fortunate photographer. He is one of the rare artists whose work is deeply understood by a wide audience. When his photography began opening toward a singular world in the 1980s, he was already sharing a poor yet passionate life with fellow artists in a dark room in Seongnam, and his work was never ignored by critics.
2007