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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Create Together, Change Tomorrow》, 2025.08.22 – 2022.09.07, Hangaram Design Museum The Seoul Arts Center, in cooperation with the Seocho District Office and the Seocho Cultural Foundation, will present the 2025 Young Artists Special Exhibition 《Create Together, Change Tomorrow》 at Hangaram Design Museum from Friday, August 22 to Sunday, September 7.
2025.08.20
Articles Artist Rhee Donghoon: Exploring New Relationships Between Sculpture and Painting Rhee Donghoon (b.1991) navigates between the traditional mediums of sculpture and painting, continually exploring the relationship between the three-dimensional and the two-dimensional. His practice involves closely observing living subjects such as plants, trees, and human figures, which he carves into wooden sculptures. These sculpted still lifes then become the subjects of his paintings.
2025.04.22

Emerging Artists

Activities Chong Kun Dang Selects Three Artists for ‘Art Ground 2024’… Providing Creative Funding and More Chong Kun Dang Holdings announced on the 13th that it had held the Chong Kun Dang Art Ground 2024 Artist Certificate Ceremony at the Westin Chosun Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul, on the 12th. The company selected Park No-wan, Park Woong-gyu, and Jang Pa as this year’s artists.
2024.03.13
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

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Jamyoung Koo: Translating Virtual Structures into Material Form Jamyoung Koo (b. 1986) has been exploring how rapidly evolving technological (software) experiences influence the creation of visual art. He investigates the structures and forms of invisible virtual systems that operate and sustain the physical structures of the real world, focusing on translating them into the realm of sculpture.
2025.08.25

Late Mid-Career 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
Activities SongEun Art Award, Four Artists 2022.04.29
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Your Mind is Now an Ocean》, 2024.07.31 – 2024.08.30, Pilar Corrias, London Pilar Corrias is pleased to present a group exhibition of works by Koo Jeong A, Ragna Bley, Keren Cytter, Sophie von Hellermann, Manuel Mathieu, Mary Ramsden, Rachel Rose, and Julião Sarmento.
2024.07.30
Articles [Critique] Expanded Music and Light Looking After Darkness: On Byungjun Kwon’s Oeuvre The term “a cappella”—literally “in the style of the chapel” or “in the church” in Italian—refers to a form of playing or performance that involves only the human voice without instrumental accompaniment. This musical form, which most of us could have heard at least once in high school, college, or church, or have experienced
2023

Established Artists

Activities Ahn Kyuchul Wins 19th Kim Se-Choong Sculpture Award Sculptor Ahn Kyuchul (50), professor at the School of Visual Arts, Korea National University of Arts, has been selected as the recipient of the 19th Kim Se-Choong Sculpture Award. Ahn was recognized for his solo exhibition 《49 Rooms》, held at Rodin Gallery in Seoul, which was praised for expanding art beyond the realm of the visual into the domains of literature and thought.
2005.06.24
Exhibitions 《Dui Jip Ki》, 2023.07.14 – 2023.08.26 (Berlin); 2023.07.07 – 2023.08.19 (Seoul), Esther Schipper (Berlin, Seoul) Esther Schipper is pleased to announce 《Dui Jip Ki》, a two-part exhibition of contemporary Korean art presented this summer at our Berlin and Seoul galleries. Curated in close cooperation with Esther Schipper, Seoul, 《Dui Jip Ki》 brings together artists across five generations who work in a variety of media.
2023.07.05