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Artist Jayoung Hong: On the Pleasure of Seeing
Jayoung Hong (b. 1995) explores how humans have perceived nature and integrated it into systems of thought through various forms of gardens and past modes of play. She focuses on the multiple perspectives surrounding objects found in different eras, cultures, and in nature itself, and by reflecting these fluid shifts and transformations of perspective in her practice, she transforms the exhibition space into a site of visual play.
2025.09.01
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Artist Cho Hyo Ri: Illusory Virtual Spaces Beyond the Canvas
Cho Hyo Ri (b. 1992) has developed a painting practice that intersects seemingly opposing elements—reality and virtuality, three-dimensionality and flatness, materiality and illusion—within a single frame, evoking uncanny sensations and imaginative experiences. Her work connects three axes: the illusory virtual space within the painting, the viewer’s physical movement in real space, and the time in which the virtual and the real intersect. Through this, she invites the viewer to imagine movement and spatial depth beyond the stillness of the pictorial surface.
2025.06.30
Exhibitions
《The Tourist》, 2020.03.20 – 2020.04.19, L’espace 71
L’espace 71 presents 《The Tourist》, a solo exhibition by Heejoon Lee, from March 13 to April 12. This marks Lee’s first solo exhibition at L’espace 71, where approximately 15 new works will be on view.
2020.03.18
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[Critique] A New Echo Created by Thickness
Around 2020, Chung's paintings transformed into reliefs with volume and materiality. It should be noted that this change occurred during the global pandemic, when most people had to communicate only through mediated images in their homes.
2023
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《Korea Artist Prize 2020》, 2020.12.04 – 2021.04.04, MMCA, Seoul
Since 2012, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) and SBS Cultural Foundation have co-sponsored the annual Korea Artist Prize, providing support to outstanding visual artists who are using innovative aesthetics to address the most compelling social issues of our time.
2020.12.01
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Exhibitions
《Painting as a medium》, 2017.10.19 – 2017.11.17, UARTSPACE
UARTSPACE holds Im Sunny’s solo exhibition ‘Painting as a Medium’ from October 19, 2017 to November 17, 2017. The exhibition introduces artworks of new possibilites and new experiments on applying various techniques of Matisse which show the flatness of paintings as well as the scenes and colors of Cezanne’s visual perception from the early Modernism.
2017.10.19
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Artist Ik-Joong Kang Connects the World Through the Art
Since his first year abroad in 1984, the artist, who had been working part-time and attending school at the same time, carried several small 3-inch (7.6cm×7.6cm) canvases in his pocket and worked on them on the subway in his spare time.
2024.09.03
Exhibitions
《Abstract Walking》, 2012.03.10 – 2012.04.22, Art Sonje Center
Art Sonje Center is pleased to present Abstract Walking – Sora Kim project 2012 from March 10 to April 22, 2012. Sora Kim produces a new sound installation work Abstract Walking for the exhibition, which has no material representation; however, the work presents a vast spatial and temporal territory that encompasses diverse stories and interpretations, and invites viewers to walk in this abstract territory.
2012.03.10
