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New Artists

Articles [Critique] The Photogenic as an Undercurrent Gerhard Richter once said, “I find many amateur photos better than the best Cézanne.”1) By “better,” Richter is not simply comparing the representational capability of photography to that of painting.
2024
Activities Goyoson's 'Alongside' Wins Porsche Frontier Award The Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture announced on the 19th that the Grand Prize at the 3rd Seoul Arts Awards has been awarded to the theater group Jeok’s play The Jew of Malta.
2025.03.19

Emerging Artists

Articles [Critique] The World after Emptiness – Jihyoung Han Solo Exhibition 《Fatty Folders》 (drawingRoom, 2022) Zombie Formalism, which gained traction in the early to mid-2010s, is often characterized as the convergence of past visual and auditory imagery within the “here and now.”
2022.05.28
Exhibitions 《Trajectory of the Spearhead》, 2023.01.12 – 2023.02.25, Chapter II The English term, ‘sign’, is de-corded in our recognition system more quickly than the equivalent Korean word.
2023.03.10

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Review] Water and History, Dependent Origination(緣起), and Nature – Beak Jungki Solo Exhibition: Is Of Beak Jungki’s work can be succinctly defined as an inquiry into the contemplation of existence through the deepening process of self-awareness. His practice extends into the realm of rational thought, following a scientific process.
2012

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Practices for Opening a Tangled Future from Memories and Mourning #1. The biomes of Papua New Guinea are relatively isolated from external predators and climate change, and therefore free from the usual pressures of survival. The birds of paradise that live in these conditions devise their own methods of seduction in order to mate.
2023
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Artist Jina Park Reconstructs Fleeting Fragments of Everyday Life Through Painting Jina Park (b. 1974) captures countless fleeting moments of everyday life through photography and reconstructs them into paintings.
2024.12.10
Articles [Essay] Artist Yoo Seungho’s Playful Paintings That Combine Images and Texts From a distance, the works of Yoo Seungho (b. 1974) may look like sansu (shanshui, mountain, and water) paintings of classical China and Korea, calligraphy, or abstract paintings.
2021.08.17

Established Artists

Articles Kim Tschoon-su’s Blue Paintings: A Journey into the Nature of Painting Kim Tschoon-su (b. 1957), a leading figure in the ‘Post-Dansaekhwa’ group and the artist of ‘Ultra Marine’, has attracted attention for his unique finger painting technique, in which he wears thin gloves instead of brushes, and uses paint on his palms and fingers to ‘touch’ the canvas to build up thin layers of color.
2024.07.30
Exhibitions 《安寧 Farewell》, 2017.05.25 – 2017.07.02, Kukje Gallery Kukje Gallery is pleased to present 安寧 Farewell, a solo exhibition of Park Chan-kyong from May 25 to July 2, 2017. Park’s work examines Korean society, framing the rapid socio-economic development of the past century while chronicling
2017.05.23