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New Artists

Exhibitions 《PERFORM 2019》, 2019.08.27 – 2019.08.31, Asia Culture Center, Ilmin Museum of Art PERFORM 2019 operates an art café titled “Linkin-out.” In this café-style exhibition, visitors select and rent works of art, which are then served to their tables. This format allows audiences to closely observe and physically engage with the works, enabling a deeper form of access—or “link-in”—to the artworks.
2019.08.25
Articles Artist Hyewon Kim’s “Performative Painting”: Unveiling New Everyday Landscapes Through Layers Hyewon Kim (b. 1993) has continued a practice of photographing scenes she frequently encounters in her daily life and using these images as templates for her paintings. Her subjects include places such as library bookshelves, the bus she regularly rides, and the scenery outside a car window.
2025.12.08

Emerging Artists

Articles [Review] 《The Weaponocene Epoch》(Seoul National University Museum of Art, Feb 6–May 4, 2025) Paul Virilio argued that modern technology cannot be separated from military purposes. Through his concept of “pure war,” he suggested that the boundary between war and peace has disappeared in contemporary society. In other words, even
2025.02.06
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 “UNNATURAL SELECTION: I, NOT I” on View Through March 28, 2026, at WWNN WWNN presents the exhibition 《UNNATURAL SELECTION: I, NOT I》 on view through March 28. This exhibition is part of a traveling exhibition project organized by WWNN, following its presentation at CON_ in Tokyo last year and now continuing at WWNN in Seoul.
2026.03.17

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Break With the sound of car breaks, an urgent voice, penetrating the iciness of temperatures 15 degrees below zero, sliced away the warm and pleasant air inside of the car.
2012
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Dream of the Extended Automata: Choe U-Ram's Mechanical Life Forms Consequently, each part contains in itself springs whose forces are proportioned to its needs. Let us consider the details of these springs of the human machine. Their actions cause all natural, automatic, vital, and animal movements. Does the body not leap back mechanically in terror
2013
Exhibitions 《Koo Jeong A: ajeongkoo》, 2017.08.26 – 2017.10.22, Art Sonje Center Art Sonje Center presents Koo Jeong A’s solo exhibition entitled 《ajeongkoo》 from 26 August to 22 October, 2017.Koo Jeong A captures everyday sceneries, or uses commonplace objects in her work since the 1990s.
2017.08.26

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] The Yeesookyungs¹ “In schematized time, nothing really new can emerge—everything is always-already there, and merely deploys its inherent potential... We are dealing here with another temporality, the temporality of freedom, of a radical rupture in the chain of (natural and/or social) causality.”
2012
Articles [Critique] On Living and Disappearing: Lee Gapchul Lee Gapchul is a fortunate photographer. He is one of the rare artists whose work is deeply understood by a wide audience. When his photography began opening toward a singular world in the 1980s, he was already sharing a poor yet passionate life with fellow artists in a dark room in Seongnam, and his work was never ignored by critics.
2007