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Artist Chang Hanna: On the Interwoven Today’s Realities of the Natural and the Artificial
Chang Hanna (b. 1988) is interested in the various desires humans possess and explores through her work how those desires return to us in different ways. In particular, she focuses on the phenomenon in which artificial objects produced by human desire and capital become part of nature and take on new forms. She reveals her collected, observed, and researched findings on this subject through photography, drawing, installation, video, and other media.
2025.12.29
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[Critique] The Technology of Faith and the Faith of Technology
In the work of IM Youngzoo, faith is not something deconstructed by technology, nor is technology fully understood through faith. The former case is one in which faith ends up labeled as superstition; the latter posits faith—often under the names of tradition or theology—as being a principle that explains all the events that occur on this earth. Yet Im’s work does not create some kind of c
2021
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[Critique] ROLLlNG FOG: Memories of things which never were
My first encounter with Sunny Kim’s ‘Girls in Uniform’ series was from her 2001 Gallery Sagan exhibition. At the time, her work, which mostly originated from documentary sources suggestive of standardized types, was transformed to deliver an artificial formality akin to graphic images.
2010
Exhibitions
《MMCA Collection: Korean Contemporary Art》, 2025.05.01 – 2026.05.31, MMCA Seoul
This exhibition is the first permanent exhibition since the opening of the Seoul branch of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) in 2013. Since beginning its acquisition activities with its original opening in 1969, MMCA has collected and researched a body of significant artwork
2025.05.01
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The Art of Connection and Communication by Artist Sora Kim
Sora Kim (b. 1965) is one of the representative Korean conceptual artists who has been making forays into open interpretations of humans and surroundings through video, sound, installation and performance based on entering into a relationship and the process of communication.
2024.10.01
Exhibitions
《Leaving the School》, 2022.03.25 - 2022.04.23, Artside Gallery
Artside Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Choi Gene Uk, 《Leaving the School》, from March 25 to April 23, 2022. This exhibition features works that reflect what the artist has seen, heard, and felt as he departs from his long-held position as a professor after many years spent with students.
2022.03.06
