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New Artists

Articles [Critique] The Photogenic as an Undercurrent Gerhard Richter once said, “I find many amateur photos better than the best Cézanne.”1) By “better,” Richter is not simply comparing the representational capability of photography to that of painting.
2024
Exhibitions 《She seemed devastated, when I was weeping with Joy: A story that ends from the beginning》, 2025.05.05, Apartment of Art, Munich Last year, as part of our residency program (in collaboration with Taipei Artist Village, the Munich Department of Arts and Culture, and Goethe-Institut Taipei), Eunju Hong spent three months at Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei. The exhibition at Apartment der Kunst is based on the artist’s time there. It was during this stay that she first encountered the world of traditional East Asian theatre and puppetry.
2025.05.05

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《A Sunday Outing》, 2025.05.09 – 2025.06.15, Kumho Museum of Art Artist Nayoung Kang focuses on “care work” and the relationships formed within it, delicately capturing the structures of life that surround it, along with the physical and emotional tensions it entails, through works in various media.
2025.05.08
Articles [Critique] Hyunsun Jeon Solo Exhibition: Parallel Paths (Alternative Space LOOP, 2018) Various forms appear in Hyunsun Jeon's paintings. While these forms are somewhat recognizable as to what they might be, the totality they compose remains ambiguous and undefined.
2018

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Flesh Steeped in Floral Nectar: Becoming Life through the Art of Ahnlee Lee While walking along the Dyemigi coast in Tongyeong, Ahnlee Lee (hereafter “Ahnlee”) stumbles upon a fragment of peeling paint shed from the surface of a ship.
2024.07.07

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Twin Peaks》, 2016.09.30 – 2016.12.10, HITE Collection Painting persisted through eras. The exhibition 《Twin Peaks》 focuses specifically on the time period between the mid-2000s and the mid-2010s, an era that is rather close to our current one, yet marked by a quite contrary character to ours. The exhibition was conceived based on a certain degree of nostalgia as well as on a lingering sense of hope.
2016.09.30
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Essay] A Multidimensional World in the Flat Paintings of Artist Chung Suejin In South Korea, there is a meme in which some Swiss people realize that the word Switzerland (스위스) in Korean looks like a soldier holding a spear and standing between mountains.
2022.09.19
Articles [Critique] Voice of the “MTV Generation”: Early Video Work of Sejin Kim From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, Korean video art underwent a significant transformation, as artists abandoned the video sculpture of previous generations and began experimenting with the inherent aesthetics and technical characteristics
2019.04.08

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Reflections on a Korean Urn, A Meditation on the work of Yeesookyung John Keats’s enigmatic, much pondered, and often challenged words about the virtues of ‘beauty’ and ‘truth’ as they are embodied in art – in this case an imaginary classical Greek vase – point to a fundamental dichotomy that has driven the work of Yeesookyung from the outset.
2012
Articles Artist Kang Hong-Goo Documents the Hidden Aspects of Reality Through the Camera 강홍구(b. 1956)는 한국 현대 사진의 다채로운 형식 실험을 이어오며 미학적 토대를 다져온 중요한 작가 중 한명이다. 작가는 1990년대 중반부터 디지털 이미지를 주 매체로 삼아 일상의 시각 환경을 채집해 현실과 허구, 진지함과 가벼움 사이의 경계를 오가며 독자적인 작업을 전개해 왔다.
2024.08.27