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New Artists

Exhibitions 《In a Comfortable World》, 2018.05.04 – 2018.05.13, Rainbow Cube Gallery In reality, even when we are simply standing still, countless images, sounds, smells, tactile sensations, and other indefinable forms of information pour in simultaneously. Yet we are not overwhelmed by this bombardment of sensations. This is because, although we see, hear, smell, touch, and feel, we do
2018.05.03
Articles Artist Jooyoung Oh: Exploring the Limits and Possibilities of Contemporary Science and Technology through Interactive Media Jooyoung Oh (b. 1991) is an artist and researcher who explores the limits and alternative possibilities of contemporary science and technology through interactive media, including games and artificial cognitive models. With the perspective of a scholar, she investigates human visual perception and conducts simulations using artificial cognitive models. At the same time, as an artist, she continually questions the boundaries and limitations inherent in scientific and technological systems.
2025.06.16

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Kim Heecheon: On Existence and Life Mediated by Digital Data Kim Heecheon (b. 1989) explores how digital technology influences our visual and perceptual experiences in everyday life, as well as our altered sense of reality as a result. His work often engages with digital interfaces that translate physical time and space into data, such as face-swapping mobile apps, virtual reality, and Google Earth.
2025.05.26
Exhibitions 《Cold Rub》, 2023.02.03 – 2023.03.11, PHD Group (Hong Kong) Eunsae Lee's solo exhibition 《Cold Rub》 will be held at PHD Group in Hong Kong from February 3 to March 11, 2023. In her decade-long exploration of painting, Eunsae Lee has engaged with figures and objects to mine relationships between gaze, desire, and consumption.
2023.02.01

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Review] Everything That Floats Sparkles (Jong Oh Solo Exhibition: First Echo) ❉ If you take a few small steps into the room, there is small blue marble that sparkles like a pupil shining in the darkness. The blue glass marble—which is inexplicably resting at the edge of the stairs that descend below one’s feet—appears to be suspended between the internal force of the form and the external force that envelopes it.
2022.08.29

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Sejin Park Paints Landscapes Outside of Boundaries Sejin Park (b. 1977) has been capturing ordinary landscapes around us with a keen perspective. Her landscape paintings go beyond the physical surfaces of the visible world, reflecting deeper layers.
2024.11.19
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] The Journey of Medium Woven through Agnostic Narratives: On Haegue Yang There was a time when people believed that the enlightened could explain everything and bring total clarity to the world. In the age of Enlightenment, Jean-François Marmontel, contributing to Diderot’s Encyclopédie, proposed that narrative requires an audience.
2024
Exhibitions 《on paper》, 2022.12.07 – 2023.01.07, PKM Gallery PKM Gallery is pleased to present 《on paper》 as an exhibition to wrap up 2022. The exhibition introduces around 40 works on paper by 15 artists, from those who represent Korean modern art to contemporary artists who are currently active, and provides a stage where the boundaries of various eras
2022.12.07

Established Artists

Articles Artist Kibong Rhee Paints a World Beyond the ‘Layer’ Known for his fog landscape paintings, Kibong Rhee (b. 1957) is one of Korea's leading mid-career artists who has been working in-depth with installations and paintings since the 1980s. He has been primarily interested in the structure and flow that constitute the essence of people, objects, and the world, and the various meanings they derive.
2024.08.06
Articles [Review] Cho Duck Hyun (3.7–5.17, Artclub 1563) Cho Duck Hyun’s exhibition 《Garden of Sounds》 is both a delicately realized mural installation and a simple stage designed for music. The space, where shade and sound intermingle, also functions as an indoor garden.
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