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New Artists

Articles [Essay] A Light Monologue Last year, the armful or so of Korean pine I’d amassed felt like dots, scattered here and there through my workshop. Take away one section, and another would appear.
2023
Articles Artist Hwang Kyumin: Designing a System as a Metaphor for East Asian Painting and Experiments with Contemporary Traditional Painting and Calligraphy Hwang Kyumin (b. 1994) has been developing his practice based on an interest in traditional East Asian painting. He poses a fundamental question about what can be defined as East Asian painting and experiments with creating his own system of painting by referencing principles and elements from its various roots that he finds personally meaningful.
2025.11.17

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Hyunmo Yang: Exploring Balance at the Boundaries of the Image Hyunmo Yang (b. 1987)’s work begins with the observation of ever-changing landscapes outside the window or flickering candle flames—forms that sway and intertwine unpredictably. For Yang, these are not merely physical shapes or fleeting scenes but reflections of internal states, points of projection through which meaning is continuously sought and redefined.
2026.03.02
Activities Grim Park, Nohwan Park, and Donghoon Rhee Named Finalists of the ‘2025 Kiaf HIGHLIGHTS’ Following its successful conclusion, Kiaf SEOUL announced the three final winners of the ‘2025 Kiaf HIGHLIGHTS’: Grim Park (THEO), Nohwan Park (Space Willing N Dealing), and Donghoon Rhee (Gallery SP).
2025.09.16

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Demolition Site》, 2014.03.01 - 2014.03.31, KT&G Sangsangmadang KT&G SKOPF is a support program that has been held annually since 2008, dedicated to discovering and supporting emerging Korean photographers with new potential. The work of this year’s selected artist, Jung Jihyun, presented in this exhibition, involves the artist directly entering demolition sites in redevelopment areas of Incheon, leaving markers, and documenting the process and results of how those markers are dismantled over time.
2014.02.27

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Anti-Art Museum Show》, 2017.09.16 - 2017.10.25, K Museum of Contemporary Art K Museum of Contemporary Art will present the exhibition 《Anti-Art Museum Show》 from September 16 (Sat) to October 25 (Wed). This exhibition has been conceived to move beyond the standardized and uniform direction of conventional art institutions and to propose the possibility of “Anti-Exhibition” within the context
2017.09.14
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Choe U-Ram : Stil laif》, 2016.11.01 – 2017.02.12, Daegu Museum of Art Daegu Museum of Art presents a solo exhibition by Korean artist Choe U-Ram, internationally recognized for creating “anima-machines,” or mechanical life-forms. Combining distinctive imagination with computer programs and technology, this exhibition was organized to shed light on Choe’s works as statements about our times.
2016.11.01
Exhibitions 《Zari》, 2016.12.08 – 2017.02.11, Perigee Gallery Constantly involved in serialized works such as Prosaic Landscape and Zari, Roh Choong Hyun is presenting his new paintings of the Zari series at this art show. In order for one to grasp his oeuvre in its entirety, it is essential to examine Prosaic Landscape.
2016.12.06

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Kang Hong-Goo's Unraveling of Digital Photography: Dreams Compressed "I wanted to make fake photographs that are extremely meaningless because I was really irritated by words and theories surrounding art. I wished my photographs to be meaningless, empty, and completely nonsensical."
2006
Exhibitions 《Kim Beom》, 2010.05.15 - 2010.08.01, Art Sonje Center Kim Beom presents works that escape from socially educated ideas as well as works that reveal the fictional aspect within an image.
2010.05.13