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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Public Art New Hero》, 2024.07.05 – 2024.07.25, K&L Museum The exhibition 《Public Art New Hero》, which introduces contemporary visual artists of outstanding capability, is jointly organized by the monthly magazine Public Art and the K&L Museum, and is held from July 5 to July 25.
2024.07.05
Exhibitions 《The Postmodern Child》, 2022.12.17 – 2023.04.23, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art 《The Postmodern Child》 understands the figure of the child—inevitably revealed as an object of discipline—as a continuation of modernity grounded in the concept of universal validity, and critically examines the crisis into which this Enlightenment-based mode of thinking has arrived.
2022.12.15

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《DOOSAN Art Lab 2019: Part 1》, 2019.07.03 – 2019.08.03, DOOSAN Gallery Organized by DOOSAN Art Center since 2010, 'DOOSAN Art LAB' is a program which supports young artists under 40 years of age to experiment in various forms of art. The program presents their work in multiple forms such as showcases, reading sessions, and workshops.
2019.07.03
Articles [Column] Hannah Woo: Reanimating the World Hannah Woo’s fabric sculptures and “drawings” are perhaps direct descendants of craft-based productions that have occupied a peripheral position within the history of art—a history recorded and remembered predominantly by men.
2023.03.03

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Song Min Jung: Tracing Movement Between Virtual and Real to Reflect on the Present Song Min Jung (b. 1985) has pursued a practice that traces the meaning of “movement” within a world where the physical and non-physical are intertwined, as a way of perceiving the present. Rather than asserting fixed or eternal values, she takes the transient—such as moods, atmospheres, and states of being—as her material, weaving new worlds across both online and physical spaces.
2025.09.29

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Column] Human Wishes Contained in Crafts: What Do You Desire? I like museums as much as I like art museums. In daily life, I live with my antennae sensitively attuned to the splendid and inventive expressions of contemporary art and to sharp, urgent issues, but I also enjoy visiting museums to look at old artifacts.
2024.07.19
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《DYSTOPIA》, 2013.09.06 - 2013.10.19, Makeshop Art Space Park Chanmin’s exhibition 《DYSTOPIA》, organized as an invited show by Makeshop Art Space, consists of the series 'blocks', which can be understood as a comparative study of collective housing in Korea and Europe
2013.09.04
Exhibitions 《YOU, Live!: Twelve-Door Handles》, 2019.10.18 – 2020.01.19, Ilmin Museum of Art 《YOU, Live!: Twelve-Door Handles》 marked artist Yoon Young Park’s first solo exhibition in nine years. Having worked between Korea and Canada, Park garnered significant attention in the Korean art world in the late 2000s for her distinctive storytelling methods and her expansion of the possibilities within the Korean painting medium.
2019.10.18

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Breakdowns, Misappropriations, Possibilities: The Art of Gimhongsok The breakdown of grand narratives—personal, historical, and artistic—and their subsequent reconfiguration are present throughout 《Antithesis of Boundary》, Gim’s latest exhibition at Tina Kim Gallery.
2010
Activities Gimhongsok “It Should Rustle When Touched… Reviving the Feel of a Plastic Bag” The bronze work Bear-like Structure–629 by Gimhongsok (51), which resembles a black plastic garbage bag, became an iconic piece of the Yokohama Triennale in 2014.
2014.08.05