K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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Artist Heejae Lim: On the Desire to Grasp the Living
Heejae Lim (b. 1993) explores the concept of nature as an image mediated and processed through painting. In particular, she discovers within the act of specimen-making—the human attempt to touch and possess nature—the painter’s own desire and dilemma, which she investigates through her pictorial practice.
2025.12.08
Exhibitions
《Faint Afterglow》, 2023.01.11 – 2023.02.18, Gallery Baton
Gallery Baton presents 《Faint Afterglow》, a group exhibition of works by 9 artists from the Korea and abroad from 11th January to 18th February 2023 in Hannam-dong, Seoul. The primary value of works that artists produce is related to self-introspection regardless of how they appear. It can be intense visual recollections stemming from past
2023.01.10
Articles
[Column] Roh Choong Hyun’s Prosaic Humane Landscape
The body of work that most clearly evokes the name of Roh Choong Hyun is his series Prosaic Landscape, in which he photographed the Hangang Riverside Park with a digital camera and translated those images into paintings.
2019
Articles
Artist Yang Ah Ham’s Work as an ‘Abstract Reality’
Yang Ah Ham (b. 1968) has been working on themes related to individuals and groups within societal systems and the socialized nature, drawing from her experiences living in various regions such as Korea, the Netherlands, and Turkey.
2024.09.24
