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New Artists

Articles 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
Exhibitions 《deep sea fish》, 2025.01.25 – 2025.04.16, Diesel Art Gallery (Tokyo) DIESEL ART GALLERY will host "deep sea fish," the first solo exhibition in Japan by Seoul-based artist Ahn Taewon, from January 25 (Saturday) to April 16 (Wednesday), 2025. The exhibition will be curated by the gallery CON_ based in Bakurocho, Nihonbashi.
2025.01.23

Emerging Artists

Activities “Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art,” the First English-language Anthology Focusing on Contemporary Korean Artists from the Millennial Generation, Has Been Published Skira editore and SONGEUN announced the publication of Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art by Andy St. Louis, a survey of Korean artists from the Millennial Generation.
2024.06.10
Articles Artist Shinyoung Park: Reconstructions of Sensory Experience in Unfamiliar Environments Shinyoung Park (b. 1987) takes travel and movement into unfamiliar places as the point of departure for her practice, reconstructing the sociocultural characteristics encountered there as subjective records. She primarily examines the boundaries between humans and animals, civilization and nature, and reality and imagination, inviting viewers to reframe events unfolding beyond the time and space in which each of us stands.
2026.02.23

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Black, Pink Balls》, 2014.09.03 – 2014.10.04, DOOSAN Gallery DOOSAN Gallery Seoul is pleased to present 《Black, Pink Balls》, on view from September 3, 2014 to October 4, 2014. 《Black, Pink Balls》 is the solo exhibition of Minae Kim, winner of the 2013 4th DOOSAN Artist Award. In this exhibition, the artist seeks to examine the contradiction that arises when one ceaselessly
2014.09.02

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Review] Son Donghyun’s 《Hep》: Connecting Through Disjunction Son Donghyun’s solo exhibition 《Hep》 is on view at Gallery 2 in Pyeongchang-dong from the 12th of this month through April 18. The exhibition begins even along the path leading to the gallery. In this exhibition, the
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《SUMMER CINEMA : Rho Jae Oon Project in Avenuel》, 2024.10.11 – 2024.11.03, Lotte Gallery Avenuel Rho Jae Oon (b. 1971) creates video works and web-based films by collecting and re-editing images, texts, and sounds gathered from the internet, grounded in his understanding of the history, techniques, and meanings of cinema.
2019.06.20
Exhibitions 《Informal Economy》, 2004.05.14 - 2004.06.30, Ssamzie Space At Ssamzie Space, the exhibition 《Informal Economy》 presents a multilayered introduction to Seulgi Lee’s artistic practice, which traverses the boundaries between everyday objects, sculpture, and exhibition space.
2004.05.12

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Back to the Future: An Exploration of Contemporaneity in Korean Contemporary Art》, 2023.06.16 - 2024.09.08, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul 《Back to the Future: An Exploration of Contemporaneity in Korean Contemporary Art》 is an exhibition organized with the intention of sharing artwork from the collection of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) with the public. Covering artworks acquired by the museum over a five-year period, from 2018 to 2022, the exhibition thoroughly examines the characteristics of noteworthy acquisitions from this time.
2023.06.14
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.
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