K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
NextGen:
3 K-Artists This Week
NextGen K-Artists Library
Pink Tab shuffle
Exhibitions
《Exoskeleton》, 2024.04.26 – 2024.06.08, P21
Their internal anatomy externalised, exoskeletons are both haven and spectacle, offering shelter and concealment for the animals they encase. Our perceptions, often focused on our external existence, obscure our enigmatic
2024.04.25
Articles
Artist Haevan Lee: Painting the Geopolitical Landscapes of Borders and Buffer Zones
Haevan Lee (b. 1990), drawing from her upbringing near the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), has explored the structures of borders and their socio-cultural impact across various national boundary regions. To understand the complexities of border identities and ecological environments, she employs landscape painting, storytelling, and historical research, capturing the local context of specific sites through diverse mediums such as painting, installation, and video.
2025.11.10
Articles
Artist Sang A Han: On the Soft Yet Sharp Mind and Existence
Sang A Han (b. 1987) begins her work from memories of everyday experiences and the emotions that arise from them. Grounded in the expressive methods of traditional East Asian painting, her practice unfolds the subtle and complex emotions and memories that cannot be reduced to a single word, articulating them through a metaphorical and symbolic visual language shaped by the many changes she experiences as an artist, a woman, and an individual.
2025.09.08
Articles
[Critique] Opening the 'Adult Fairy Tale' through Imagination
Hyunsun Jeon’s paintings resemble fairy tale books with no text. Within them, exotic spaces and unfamiliar past times tumble about in a state of indefinable vagueness. These works are populated with grandmothers, girls, wolves, rabbits, wild boars—scenes filled with ambiguous incidents unfolding between humans and animals. The characters living in the time-space of a fairy tale continuously send and receive unspoken messages, forging their roles through mutual exchange.
2012.05.01
Exhibitions
《4℃》, 2024.01.30 – 2024.04.28, Sehwa Museum of Art
In an age where digital media seamlessly overlays our reality and the boundary between AI and human appears increasingly blurred, one must ask: what remains fundamentally irreducible to algorithms in the human experience? The exhibition 《4℃》, part of the “Non-Algorithm Challenge” series, turns to memory in search of this elusive element.
2024.01.30
The One & Only Place
Where Korean Contemporary Art
Meets the World Every Moments
Join for Newsletters
& limited access to news & exhibitions
Follow Us on Social Media
Exhibitions
《The 4th Wall: The State of Emergency ll》, 2017.06.02 – 2017.08.06, Art Sonje Center
Art Sonje Center will presents 《The 4th Wall: The State of Emergency ll》, an exhibition of the work of artist NOH Suntag, from June 2 to August 6, 2017. NOH Suntag’s previous solo exhibition, 《The State of Emergency I》, held at the Kunstverein in Stuttgart in 2008, used the language of photography to show the skewed environment of tension and conflict generated by the division between South and North Korea.
2017.06.01
Exhibitions
《Dialogue》, 2022.9.6 - 2022.12.25, Seoul Botanic Park
Seoul Botanic Park presents Kiwon Park’s solo exhibition 《Dialogue》 in 2022. This exhibition was conceived as an attempt by the artist to experience plant culture in diverse ways. Park has built an original artistic practice that departs from object-oriented works, instead focusing on the “place and spatiality” in which the exhibition is staged.
2022.09.05
