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New Artists

Articles [Critique] The Curtain Call Moment: Jungyoon Hyen’s Acrobatic Sculptures From moment to moment in our daily lives, we play the role of mediator between ourselves, objects, and our surroundings. For the most part, we reflect on what surrounds us according to agreed-upon rules.
2022.10.14
Exhibitions “Within and Without” on View Through June 28, 2026, at Gyeongnam Art Museum Gyeongnam Art Museum presents the exhibition 《Within and Without》 through June 28. Today, as our bodies, memories, and modes of survival have undergone rapid transformation, the forms of community that once defined us can no longer fully account for our lives. We now find ourselves in a position to reco
2026.04.21
Articles [Critique] Image as Structure
2023.06.19

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《INVENTORY》, 2021.06.03 – 2021.06.27, SeMA Storage As part of the 2021 Emerging Artists Exhibition Support Program, the exhibition 《INVENTORY》 focuses on the spatial characteristics of the SeMA Storage, which was formerly used as a reagent warehouse—specifically, its function as a space for organizing and arranging items.
2021.06.21
Exhibitions Group Exhibition “Hymn of Seoul” on view through January 6, 2024, at Art Space Boan 1 The exhibition Hymn of Seoul, selected as an outstanding exhibition by the Arts Council Korea in 2023, is the final installment in reexamining modern and contemporary history through the lens of contemporary art. As part of this project, New Modern(신현대) was presented in 2021, followed by Han River(한강) in 2022. Hymn of Seoul is presented as a final report suggesting future alternatives. The exhibition title, inspired by a song released in 1969 conveying messages of hope for Seoul in the 1960s, aims to explore the symbolism and meaning of this song from an ethnological perspective, connecting it to the context of contemporary Seoul.
2023.12.27

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions “Dear Alexa” on View Through July 26, 2026, at Art Archives Seoul Museum of Art Seoul Museum of Art presents a special exhibition 《Dear Alexa》 on view through July 26, at Art Archive Seoul Museum of Art.
2026.04.07

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Son Donghyun’s Contemporary Exploration of Traditional Painting Son Donghyun (b. 1980) has been reinterpreting the styles of East Asian traditional painting from a contemporary perspective. While traditional painting often embodies an interest in nature, Son’s work reflects the lives of contemporary figures.
2025.02.04
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《The Medium : Layered, Lined》, 2019.10.16 – 2019.11.23, UARTSPACE In painting, the flatness is the essence of modernist painting and suggests a significant direction and point of view to see a contemporary painting as an independent area that distinguishes it from other artistic genres.
2019.10.16
Activities Lee Yongbaek, Representative Artist of the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: “For Me, It Is Part of the Process of Completing My Artistic World” Lee Yongbaek (44). A graduate of Hongik University’s Department of Western Painting and the Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart in Germany, he is an artist who presents works that cross genres,
2010.10.06

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Songs from knee to nose》, 2016.05.25 – 2016.07.10, MMCA, Gwacheon 《SONGS FROM KNEE TO CHIN - A PROJECT BY SORA KIM》 is a prologue to the special exhibition that will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the MMCA Gwacheon as well as a sound performance project by Sora Kim that is being held for the first time in the newly refurbished Gallery 1 space of the museum.
2016.05.25
Articles [Critique] Narratives of Being and Time Koo Bohnchang’s photographs constitute a narrative of being that contains the accumulation of time—time that is often imperceptible to human senses. Every existing object or living body carries within it the time it has experienced.
2024