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Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.

Mid-Career:
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Young Artists

Exhibitions SeMA Omnibus At the End of the World Split Endlessly on View Through November 17, 2024, at SeMA Seosomun Main Branch Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) is holding the exhibition “At the End of the World Split Endlessly” at the Seosomun Main Branch until November 17, as part of the ‘SeMA Omnibus’, an exhibition of works from the Seoul Museum of Art’s collections.
2024.10.08
Exhibitions 《Tactics for an Era》, 2025.08.28 – 2025.12.28, K&L Museum In our contemporary era, we are witnessing rapid and multifaceted transformations in daily life due to the unprecedented development of artificial intelligence and digital technologies. The increasingly advanced digital
2025.08.28

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions “The 23rd SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition” on view through February 24, 2024, at SONGEUN The SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition is a showcase of the latest works by leading emerging artists in contemporary Korean art in one place. This exhibition features the diversity of contemporary Korean art through the paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, and sound works of 20 young artists born between 1979 and 1990.
2023.12.13
Exhibitions 《You Never Saw It》, 2021.10.21 – 2021.11.20, Gallery KICHE Gallery KICHE announce that their first exhibition after relocation of the gallery to Samcheong-dong area will be opened 21 October. Participating artists are Noh-Wan Park, Shin Young Park, Lee Dong Hyuk, and Hyun Nahm.
2021.10.20

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Memo on Lee Eun-sil and Her Works Lee Eun-sil (born in1983) and her works were first encountered at the 2006 Graduation Exhibition of Seoul National University. Her looks with a bodyline so voluptuous and thick wavy hair looked as if she were a college student of Ewha Womans University in the 1980s.
2008

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles Media Artist Ayoung Kim: Multidimensional Narratives of Beings Deviating from History, Era, and Geopolitics Ayoung Kim (b. 1979) has presented works in video, installation, and performance, reconstructing historical facts and contemporary issues such as Korea's modern and contemporary history, geopolitics, emigration, and transnational movement into multilayered narratives through meticulous research.
2024.12.31

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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions “The Ulsan Art Museum Collection: Future Collection” on View Through May 21, 2023, at Ulsan Art Museum Under the theme “What is an art collection now?” The Ulsan Art Museum Collection: Future Collection presents about 30 works from the museum’s collection, ranging from time-based immersive installations to participatory, interactive works.
2023.04.17
Articles [Critique] Air of Suspicion: into the gap of time I remember Sunny Kim always looking somewhere far away. Her paintings were creating a thick border neither here nor there. This place was the land and the sea; something alive and dead; and possibly you and me. Or perhaps none of these.
2017

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Where You Stand》, 2022.11.17 - 2022.12.31, Kukje Gallery Kukje Gallery is pleased to present 《Where You Stand》, a solo exhibition of Kibong Rhee from November 17 to December 31, 2022. Fourteen years since his last exhibition at Kukje in 2008, this fifth solo exhibition of the artist will be held simultaneously in both the gallery’s Seoul and Busan spaces.
2022.11.15
Exhibitions 《Slowness of Speed》, 2000.01.28 - 2000.03.05, Art Sonje Center In 《Slowness of Speed》, an exchange exhibition between Australia and Korea, each of the participating artists –Kimsooja, Young-jin Kim, Bae Bien-U, Keun-Byung Yook, Lee Bul, Hong-Chun Park, and Choi Jeong Hwa has
2000.01.26