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

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3 K-Artists This Week

Artist_K-Artist Artist Seoul Kim: A Meta-Exploration into Painting as a Classical Medium
2026.03.16
Artist_K-Artist Artist Dasom Park: An Exploration of the Physicality of Painting 2026.03.16
Artist_K-Artist Artist Choi Suin: Painting Emotional Scenes Arising from Relationships 2026.03.16

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Artist_K-Artist GRAYCODE, jiiiiin: Sound as a Phenomenon of Existence, Time, and Perception
2025.10.13
Artist_K-Artist Artist Sunjeong Hwang: Exploring Human–Nonhuman ‘Connections’ through Technological Media
2025.10.13
Artist_K-Artist Artist JSUK HAN: The Art of ‘Feedback’ Through the Resonance of Light, Sound, and Space
2025.10.13
Artist_K-Artist Artist Uri Han: On the Disappearing Things and Its Temporality
2025.09.29
Artist_K-Artist Artist Jinseung Jang: On Data, Humanity, and Structures of Perception
2025.09.29
Artist_K-Artist Artist Song Min Jung: Tracing Movement Between Virtual and Real to Reflect on the Present
2025.09.29
Artist_K-Artist “Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams” on View Through November 23, 2025, at Daejeon Museum of Art
2025.09.23
Artist_K-Artist Artist Hkason’s Mediating and Expanding Art: On the Body, Objects, and Space
2025.09.22
Artist_K-Artist Artist Kim Uljiro: New Organisms Cultivated in Virtual Reality
2025.09.22

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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Protect Me From What I Want》, 2024.03.22 – 2024.05.26, Seoul National University Museum of Art This exhibition willingly embraces two flashpoints: myth and museology. Ours is, indeed, an era of fully realized myths—mythologized capital, mythologized consumption. This is not a warning siren against the “technovirus-like spread of financial capitalism,” though it is not entirely unrelated.
2024.03.20
Exhibitions 《Exit Exit》, 2019.11.08 – 2019.11.28, SHIFT / Art Space HYEONG Sikyung Sung’s solo exhibition 《Exit Exit》 is held from November 8 to 28 at SHIFT / Art Space HYEONG.
2019.11.06
Exhibitions 《Dark Factory》, 2025.06.05 – 2025.06.12, MMCA, Changdong Residency
2025.06.05
Articles Artist Minseok Chi: Exploring the Contemporary Convergence of Korean Traditional Art, Philosophy, and Religion
2025.07.28
Articles Artist Haneyl Choi: Exploring the Intersections of Queer Bodies, Emotions, and Social Structures Through Sculpture
2026.01.05
Articles Artist Dawha Jeon: Translating Deteriorated Digital Images into Painting
2025.11.24

Emerging Artists

Activities Grim Park, Nohwan Park, and Donghoon Rhee Named Finalists of the ‘2025 Kiaf HIGHLIGHTS’ Following its successful conclusion, Kiaf SEOUL announced the three final winners of the ‘2025 Kiaf HIGHLIGHTS’: Grim Park (THEO), Nohwan Park (Space Willing N Dealing), and Donghoon Rhee (Gallery SP).
2025.09.16
Exhibitions 《Double Feature》, 2023.09.14 – 2023.12.17, Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin (Berlin, Düsseldorf) Beginning from September 2023, the Julia Stoschek Foundation introduces a new series of solo presentations by emerging artists called DOUBLE FEATURE, which will take place across JSF Berlin and Düsseldorf simultaneously.
2023.09.10
Exhibitions 《Appearances》, 2023.03.09 – 2023.03.25, Frieze No. 9 Cork Street
2023.03.01
Articles Artist Hur Yeonhwa’s Fluid Landscapes: On Ambiguous Boundaries and Shifting Sensibilities
2025.12.29
Exhibitions 《Pain Is Left After the Bite》, 2024.06.07 – 2024.07.20, Philipp Zollinger
2024.06.01
Exhibitions 《Worm and Saint》, 2017.11.04 – 2017.11.19, Space Kneet
2017.11.02

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Lift & Drift》, 2021.06.02 – 2021.07.03, SONGEUN Art Space The third installment of solo exhibitions by twelve artists—selected through an open call among those who previously participated in exhibitions at SONGEUN Art Space and SONGEUN Artcube—has begun.
2021.06.04
Articles [Review] Everything That Floats Sparkles (Jong Oh Solo Exhibition: First Echo)
2022.08.29
Articles [Artist Note] Seo Jaewoong's ‘Yin and Yang’ and the ‘Five Elements’
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Exhibitions 《P.O.I (Point of Interest)》, 2014.10.01 – 2014.10.21, Space Willing N Dealing 2014.09.29

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 10 Years of DOOSAN Gallery New York《Decade Studio》, 2019.06.27 – 2019.08.15, DOOSAN Gallery New York DOOSAN Gallery New York presents 《Decade Studio》, a special exhibition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the gallery. The exhibition opens in June 27th and continues through August 15th. Established in 2009 in Chelsea, Doosan Gallery New York has supported South Korean emerging artists as a part of Doosan Yonkang Foundation, a nonprofit corporation run by a global company Doosan Group.
2019.06.26
Exhibitions 《Video Room(Sala de Vídeo): Kang Seung Lee》, 2024.08.23 – 2024.10.27, MASP (Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo)
2024.08.21
Exhibitions 《MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art》, 2025.02.13 – 2025.06.08, Mori Art Museum
2025.02.12
Exhibitions 《Somewhere Underneath》, 2014.12.04 – 2014.01.31, HADA Contemporary (London) 2014.12.01
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Artist Haegue Yang Explores and Mediates the Multilayered Structure of the World Haegue Yang (b. 1971), who works and lives in Berlin and Seoul, is one of the most prominent contemporary artists working in Korea today. In 2018, she became the first Asian female artist to win Germany’s prestigious Wolfgang Hahn Art Prize, and in 2022, she became the first Korean to win the Benesse Prize.
2024.07.09
Exhibitions "Threshold" on View Through March 15, 2025, at Chapter II For the first exhibition in 2025, Chapter II presents 《Threshold》, a group exhibition of works by six international and Korean artists—Moon Kyung Won & Jeon Joon Ho, Max Frisianger, Park Suk Won, Chung Hee Seung, Ju Se Kyun and Jongwoo Ahn—through March 15 in the Yeonnam-dong space, Seoul.
2025.02.04
Articles Artist Yoo Seungho’s Playful Paintings: Exploring the Relationship Between Writing and Drawing
2025.02.04
Articles [Analysis] Beyond the Value of Mere Dwelling
2022.02.13
Articles [Critique] Beyond Post-Minjoong Art – Bae Young-whan’s The Way of Man and Its Achievements
2005.12.23
Exhibitions 《Homo Natura》, 2021.12.16 – 2022.02.27, Seoul Museum of Art
2021.12.10

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
Activities Artist Choi Jeonghwa Selected for ‘MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2018’ Artist Choi Jeonghwa has been selected as the fifth artist of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s ‘MMCA Hyundai Motor Series.’ The MMCA Hyundai Motor Series is a long-term annual project,
2018.03.08
Activities Lee Bul Selected as the 2019 Ho-Am Prize Laureate in the Arts
2019.04.04
Exhibitions 《A Day for Counting Stars: The Story of You and Me》, 2018.12.27 – 2019.08.25, MMCA Cheongju
2018.12.26
Activities 14 Artists Including Sora Kim, Bae Young-whan and Choi Jeong-hwa Selected for the Venice Biennale
2005.03.12
Exhibitions 《Uproarious, Heated, Inundated》, 2015.07.28 – 2015.10.11, MMCA Seoul
2015.07.28