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Artist Kang Cheolgyu: Surreal Landscapes Reflecting the Inner Psyche
Kang Cheolgyu (b. 1990) presents narrative paintings in which reality and fiction intersect, drawing from autobiographical experiences. He projects his inner conflicts onto specific subjects and situations, reconstructing them through a symbolic visual language. The fictional worlds he builds on canvas function as psychological landscapes—symbolic spaces that metaphorically reflect his own reality.
2025.07.21
Exhibitions
《Defaulted》, 2020.06.20 – 2020.07.18, N/A
The meaning of seeing has been varied from ancient to modern times. Seeing is more than just observing an object, it is discernment and understanding, and through this process, an experience in which meaning arises is also achieved.
2020.06.18
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《Moulage Mélancolique》, 2019.10.16 – 2019.11.15, Project Space Sarubia
Hannah Woo’s solo exhibition 《Moulage Mélancolique》 is being held at Project Space Sarubia. Woo is an artist who employs her own intuitive sculptural language. Letting herself be released into and surrendering to an unknown world generates internal waves during the creative process and enables free imagination.
2019.10.14
Exhibitions
《Black, Pink Balls》, 2014.09.03 – 2014.10.04, DOOSAN Gallery
DOOSAN Gallery Seoul is pleased to present 《Black, Pink Balls》, on view from September 3, 2014 to October 4, 2014. 《Black, Pink Balls》 is the solo exhibition of Minae Kim, winner of the 2013 4th DOOSAN Artist Award. In this exhibition, the artist seeks to examine the contradiction that arises when one ceaselessly
2014.09.02
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《Walk in the Sun》, 2019.10.23 – 2019.11.30, SONGEUN
From October 23 to November 30, SONGEUN presents Walk in the Sun, a solo exhibition by Sejin Kim, the Grand Prize winner of the 16th SONGEUN Art Award. Kim has focused her practice on the lives of individuals embedded within broader and smaller scales of history, rendering these narratives in a synesthetic manner through cinematic and documentary techniques, layered sound, and distinctive video installations that cross formal boundaries.
2019.10.20
Exhibitions
《A Night of Burning Bone and Skin》, 2014.06.20 – 2014.07.27, Hakgojae Gallery
Hakgojae Gallery presents a solo exhibition by media artist Yangachi, titled 《A Night of Burning Bone and Skin》, from June 20 to July 27, 2014. The exhibition title borrows from a film produced in the early 1980s as part of the military regime’s so-called “3S” policy (Sports, Sex, Screen).
2014.06.20
Exhibitions
《Knocking Air》, 2020.05.12 – 2020.07.05, Barakat Contemporary
Barakat Contemporary will present Chung Seoyoung’s solo exhibition, 《Knocking Air》, from 12th May to 5th July 2020. Chung Seoyoung is an artist who played a leading role in establishing ‘Contemporary Art’ as a new category within the Korean art world in the 1990s.
2020.05.12
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[Critique] Portrait of Anxiety
The faces of people from Heinkuhn Oh’s photos show a subliminal feeling of anxiety in some ways. It gives the strange, grotesque, or fretful feeling. I can’t distinguish whether it is their faces that show anxiousness or it is my mind that is disturbed from watching their faces.
2011
