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Exhibitions
《All Tomorrow’s Parties》, 2022.04.07 – 2022.04.19, Art Space 3
An exhibition is always a kind of opportunity, yet also a form of judgment. In today’s art system, those who offer opportunities often simultaneously act as judges. As artists who step forward, we are expected to shine at the site of opportunity and remain confident under judgment—this is the demand placed upon us by contemporary society.
2022.04.06
Exhibitions
《Cut and paste》, 2022.05.06 – 2022.06.04, Gallery Stan
Digital nomads are the norm in 2022. Along with the blockchain, we exist both physically and virtually. Physical distance is now easier to overcome than ever before. The boy born in 1993 has become a digital native in no time. Because of his father's influence as a programmer, reality and the digital world had already been blended seamlessly for the artist who encountered the Internet earlier than anyone else.
2022.05.01
Exhibitions
《Facade in Facade》, 2021.07.22 – 2021.08.14, OCI Museum of Art
OCI Museum of Art (Director: Ji-hyun Lee) presents the solo exhibition 《Facade in Facade》 by emerging artist Hwang Wonhae, on view from July 21 to August 14, 2021, in the museum’s first-floor gallery. The exhibition is part of the 2021 OCI YOUNG CREATIVES program, an annual initiative supporting six selected young Korean artists through a series of consecutive solo exhibitions.
2021.07.20
Activities
Why Musician G-Dragon Went to the Museum
PEACEMINUSONE. This term encapsulates the worldview pursued by G-Dragon (27, birth name Kwon Jiyong) of the group BIGBANG. It suggests that between a peaceful, utopian world and a reality marked by lack, there exists a point of intersection where ideals and reality meet. The exhibition 《PEACEMINUSONE
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Articles
[Review] 《Funkchestra》 Review
I knew that he titled his first solo exhibition “Shrine,” but I only learned this time that he is a devout “child of the Lord.” This was not apparent from the meticulously arranged, eventful new works in the exhibition, but rather something I learned by chance after asking him an unrelated question.
2005
Exhibitions
《Between the Lines》, 2024.03.14 - 2024.04.04, SPACE 21
The cultural achievements of humanity—including art and philosophy—have emerged from deep contemplation and moments of pause within life. However, the rapid transformation of modes of communication brought
2024.03.12
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Artist Choi Jeong Hwa’s Work Begins with Everyday Life
Choi Jeong Hwa (b. 1961) has created a variety of installations that bring cheap everyday consumables such as plastic baskets, piggy banks, artificial flowers, and brooms into the realm of art. By transforming these mass-produced everyday consumer goods into artworks and moving them into museums, the artist blurs the boundaries between high art and popular culture through so-called cheap pop culture, or kitsch, and captures a slice of Korean society.
2024.08.06
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[Critique] Kim Beom
“Though my works have a sense of humor, usually pessimism and absurdity underlie it.”
—Kim Beom
2018
