K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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Exhibitions
《Rhizome – Network Without Center Point》, 2024.06.08 – 2024.09.15, Kunstal Aarhus
Kunsthal Aarhus presents 11 young artist from all over the world in this new group exhibition. In botany, a “rhizome” is a root stem that extends horizontally throughout the ground. Unlike plant stems, which are vertical structures that receive nutrients from roots and leaves, the diverse rhizome stores nutrients
2024.06.15
Exhibitions
《4 and one-half, knuckle》, 2021.11.18 – 2021.11.29, Art Space Hanchigak, Pyeongtaek
1. Two eyes. Two ears. One nose. One mouth. Two arms and two legs attached to a single torso, and five fingers and five toes connected to them. This is a “body.” With just this small list of words, we can be made to imagine a “body.” 2. Length of limbs, shoulder width and waist circumference, head size, hip size, weight n kg, height n cm. This is “someone.” Even if the body is the same, through these numerical values we can imagine a particular person.
2021.11.17
Exhibitions
《Seoulites》, 2021.07.16 – 2021.09.09, Museumhead
Love is a confrontation of two parties, who stand facing one another. They meet, experience an overflowing of emotion, and, in some cases, end up going their separate ways—all while facing one another.
2021.07.16
Exhibitions
《Intuition》, 2017.05.13 – 2017.11.26, Palazzo Fortuny
Kim Sooja and Anish Kapoor will participate in 《Intuition》, a group exhibition taking place from May 13 to November 26, 2017, at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, Italy. This exhibition has been organized by the Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation and
2017.05.12
Articles
[Critique] Cho Duck Hyun: Archaeology of Memory
The keyword of Cho Duck Hyun’s work is “memory.” He has consistently undertaken the task of transferring old black-and-white photographs onto canvas or hanji. Using pencil, charcoal, and conté, he meticulously “reproduces” photographs as paintings. Since he mainly works with portrait photographs, standing before these images often produces a moment of astonishment: are they paintings that resemble photographs, or photographs that resemble paintings? They are what might be called “photo paintings.”
2021
