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Articles [Critique] A Narrative Beginning with an Encounter in a Desolate Forest, Miryu Yoon’s Solo Exhibition 《Do Wetlands Scare You?》 A dense forest, thick with towering trees that seem to obscure the sky. A bleak, unsettling atmosphere lingers. The ground is heavy with mud, and plants such as perennials and reeds grow tall in stagnant water. It is a wetland. A place where, with a single misstep, one may sink and never emerge. Gripped by fear, someone stands frozen, unable to move a muscle. At that moment, something bursts forth from the swamp.
2024
Articles Artist Eunsi Jo: Exploring the Meaning of Existence through 'Irresistible Structures' and the Principle of 'Resemblance' Eunsi Jo (b. 1999) focuses on “irresistible structures” beyond human control—such as family, the food chain, and natural disasters—as well as on the principle of “resemblance.” Drawing on the interrelations between the individual and the community, and between the part and the whole, she presents distinctive paintings that unfold the meaning of existence through forms resembling signs, symbols, and diagrams.
2025.11.03

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Kim Yesul: Reinterpreting Communities and Places in Everyday Life Kim Yesul (b. 1989) is interested in reinterpreting the communities and places encountered in our everyday lives, creating specific situations that allow them to be observed from the perspective of a third party. In particular, the artist focuses on the multiple narratives that emerge simultaneously in contemporary society, the layered phenomena that arise within them, and the beings excluded from society, continuing a practice that unfolds these concerns at the intersection of art and design.
2026.06.01
Exhibitions 《Pain Is Left After the Bite》, 2024.06.07 – 2024.07.20, Philipp Zollinger In his sculptures, installations, and videos, Tak examines human belief systems and their impact on societal and cultural structures.
2024.06.01

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Atmospheres》, 2023.12.16 – 2024.01.06, 359-11, Hapjeong-dong 《Atmospheres》 depicts a world of violence, exploitation, and trauma by creating partial connections after modifying or rearranging the recording of the impressions I detected from the real world. This is a story of beings too small to be noticed, and also a story of countless beings within a single being.
2023.12.22

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] The Contemporaneity of Dongyanghwa (Eastern Painting) ― An Essay on Kim Jipyeong’s Work Painting is a slow medium. But it wasn’t slow to begin with. It has simply maintained its own steady rhythm and pace. What has truly accelerated is the dizzying speed of modern civilization, driven by the relentless progress of technology and industry. These developments have swiftly transformed
2025
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Funkchestra》, 2005.09.23 – 2005.10.23, Arko Art Center As the Marronnier Art Center of the Korea Culture and Arts Foundation was renamed Arko Art Center under the Arts Council Korea, the 2005 Planned Invitation Exhibitions I and II were organized as the inaugural exhibitions. Beginning on September 23, 2005, the exhibitions consisted of solo shows by Hong Kyoungtack and Choi Jin-wook, held in Gallery 1 and Gallery 2 respectively.
2005.09.29
Exhibitions “Korea Artist Prize 2023” on View Through March 31, 2024, at MMCA Seoul The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul will host the Korea Artist Prize 2023 from October 20, 2023 to March 31, 2024.
2023.10.25

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] ‘A Parody of History’ -On the Works of Cho Duck Hyun- How arduously must an artist struggle—enduring even the severe strain of the mind—in order to discover the reality of the real (even if, leaving aside the separate question of what “reality” itself is and how it might be expressed)?
1991
Activities Samsung Electronics Presents Largest-Ever ‘Art Basel in Basel’ Collection Samsung Electronics (005930) will present thirty-eight works from the 《Art Basel in Basel》 2025 collection on the ‘Samsung Art Store’.
2025.08.25