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Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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eobchae: Critical Imaginations of the Accelerated Techno-Environment in the Post-Internet Era
Formed in 2017, the collective eobchae is an audio-visual production group composed of three artists born in the 1990s — Nahee Kim, Cheonseok Oh, and Hwi Hwang. Through works that traverse the boundaries of various media including video, sound, web, and performance, they weave speculative worldviews by closely examining the rapidly advancing new technologies and environments, focusing on perspectives omitted or erased in these processes.
2025.05.26
Articles
[Critique] Sculptural Performance, Performative Sculpture
Moon Sujin tests premises or assumptions we think we already know. She does so by applying artificial force to materials such as soil or plaster, or by performing, through the body, biases or perceptions that go routinely overlooked.
2022
Activities
CHANEL x Frieze Select Six Artists for ‘Now & Next’ Project
Global luxury brand CHANEL and Frieze, one of the world’s three major art fairs, present the fourth season of the “Now & Next” video series, which highlights the perspectives and voices of contemporary Korean artists.
2025.08.04
Exhibitions
“Still/ Moving: Korean Video Art Based on Performances” on View Through June 5, 2026, at Korean Cultural Center in Italy
The SONGEUN Art and Cultural Foundation presents the traveling exhibition 《Still/Moving: Korean Video Art Based on Performances》 at the Korean Cultural Center in Italy through June 5. Organized to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the SONGEUN Art Award, this exhibition focuses on the moment when works by video- and performance-based artists—whom SONGEUN has discovered and supported over the years—encounter new audiences across different regions and come to life once again.
2026.04.28
Exhibitions
Kim Taedong & Yona Lee’s Two-Person Exhibition “Staging” on View Through July 20, 2026, at Space ISU
Space ISU, the cultural arts space of ISU Group, presents the 30th anniversary exhibition 《Staging》 through July 20.Moving beyond conventional modes of commemoration that simply look back on the past, the exhibition foregrounds the idea that a corporation exists as a dynamic entity—one in which diverse relationships and elements are interconnected and continuously evolving.
2026.05.05
Exhibitions
《Rose-Tinged Life》, 2012.10.27 - 2012.11.10, Space Beam
My work began with a wish to find myself in a world where media and reality have collapsed into one, and where a person’s sense of value is slowly fading. It is also my starting point in trying to connect with others and, at the very least, to find myself within that connection.
2012.10.25
Exhibitions
《(Im)Possible Landscape》, 2012.11.08 - 2013.02.03, PLATEAU
Samsung Museum of Art PLATEAU presents the exhibition 《(Im)Possible Landscape》 from November 8 to February 3, 2013. Through the familiar motif of “landscape,” the exhibition explores the impossibility—or alternatively the new possibilities—of perceiving reality that contemporary art’s imagination can reach.
2012.11.06
