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New Artists

Articles [Review] A Flower Which Can't Even Be Seen: Excavating Footprints The solo exhibition of Sungoo Im's 《A Flower Which Can't Even Be Seen: Excavating Footprints》, aims to explore the language and structure of Yi Sang's poem, "Cliff", leaving behind traces of the drawings which cross boundaries of the two dimensional and the three dimensional.
2022.08.31
Articles [Essay] A Light Monologue Last year, the armful or so of Korean pine I’d amassed felt like dots, scattered here and there through my workshop. Take away one section, and another would appear.
2023

Emerging Artists

Articles [Column] The Place of Beautiful and Sparkling Objects Hannah Woo has consistently created installation works that construct narrative spaces using fabric as the primary material. These include landscapes populated by clusters of rods of various shapes, as in 《SWINGING》 (Wangsan-ro 9-gil 24, 2018);
2020.10.09
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

Exhibitions 《But some day, one day, soon》, 2021.03.03 – 2021.03.31, DOOSAN Gallery DOOSAN Gallery Seoul proudly presents 《But some day, one day, soon》, a solo exhibition by artist Woosung Lee, from Wednesday, March 3 to Wednesday, March 31, 2021.
2021.03.01

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Video Room(Sala de Vídeo): Kang Seung Lee》, 2024.08.23 – 2024.10.27, MASP (Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo) Kang Seung Lee’s solo exhibition 《Video Room: Kang Seung Lee》 is on view at Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) until October 27. This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Brazil, featuring
2024.08.21
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Paper-Brush-Ink, Modernity, Body Planet is a good index of the themes and ideas Jaeho Jung’s paintings intend to convey and his artistic attitude. Through a rough terrain over which large flakes of snow fall diagonally a steam train is rushing to the right out of the picture plane.
2018
Exhibitions 《PENETRALE》, 2019.10.16 – 2019.11.30, P21 From October 16 to November 30, 2019, P21 presents Hyungkoo Lee’s solo exhibition 《PENETRALE》. This is his first solo exhibition in four years since 2015, featuring two new works produced in 2019—Psyche up Panorama (2019) and X (2019)—each installed in one of P21’s two exhibition spaces.
2019.10.15

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Intimate Sisters》, 2022.08.29 – 2022.09.30, Duson Gallery Yeesookyung’s work gathers discarded and wounded things to resurrect them as new beings, presenting fragments of life related to wounds and healing. By dismantling traditional forms and rebirthing them through a contemporary sculptural language, her work offers a visual meeting point between tradition and modernity.
2022.08.29
Articles [Critique] To Live, or to Write The subtitle of Ahn Kyuchul’s exhibition 《Invisible Land of Love》 carries an unmistakably somber tone. The word “country,” modified by that adjective, evokes the fissure carved between society and the state—a fissure that has generated absence and dispossession, and that has given rise to countless events and disasters that should never have occurred.
2015