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New Artists

Exhibitions 《National Junkyard of Modern and Contemporary Art》, 2025.03.06 – 2025.04.12, ATELIER AKI ATELIER AKI is pleased to present Dahoon Nam's solo exhibition, 《National Junkyard of Modern and Contemporary Art》, as its first exhibition of 2025. Marking the artist’s 11th solo show, this exhibition expands on the concept of "art through replication" while delving deeper into social discourse.
2025.03.06
Exhibitions 《Oh, Night and I’ll Come to You》, 2024.12.04 – 2024.12.22, Hapjungjigu The second curated exhibition by ORB (Yuja Kim and Jungyeon Park), 《Oh, Night and I’ll Come to You》, revisits the concept of “the end” in relation to the present day, focusing on the symptomatic sensibilities and ambiguous temporality felt by contemporary beings.
2024.12.04

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《A Sunday Outing》, 2025.05.09 – 2025.06.15, Kumho Museum of Art Artist Nayoung Kang focuses on “care work” and the relationships formed within it, delicately capturing the structures of life that surround it, along with the physical and emotional tensions it entails, through works in various media.
2025.05.08
Exhibitions Group Exhibition “Hymn of Seoul” on view through January 6, 2024, at Art Space Boan 1 The exhibition Hymn of Seoul, selected as an outstanding exhibition by the Arts Council Korea in 2023, is the final installment in reexamining modern and contemporary history through the lens of contemporary art. As part of this project, New Modern(신현대) was presented in 2021, followed by Han River(한강) in 2022. Hymn of Seoul is presented as a final report suggesting future alternatives. The exhibition title, inspired by a song released in 1969 conveying messages of hope for Seoul in the 1960s, aims to explore the symbolism and meaning of this song from an ethnological perspective, connecting it to the context of contemporary Seoul.
2023.12.27

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Let us Live in Hell_ CHOE Sooryeon: Pictures for Use and Pleasure 1. I was going to oppose giving judgement, but I only witnessed his arrest without a shadow nor signal. He is innocent. Nevertheless, I can’t ask what the arrest is about. Because the one who visits is not able to be considered.
2020

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Aslope》, 2018.10.12 – 2018.11.09, Nook Gallery When I first visited the artist's studio, the black paintings with layer after layer of devoted brush strokes filled with a long period of hesitation and passion had sucked everything in and left just the reflective layer of dark oil paint.
2018.10.04
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Electric Animism LOn entering the gallery, viewers find themselves plunged into a sci fi pseudo-ecology, the creation of sculptor Choe U-Ram. Scientific explanations, not captions, accompany the works; mechanical organisms creep along through the
2009, 1월
Articles [Critique] History and Visuality: Seeing the Surface in Rho Jae Oon’s Art In Rho Jae Oon’s work, we encounter a linkage of history to the visual, one that involves a disruption of the ways in which history has been associated with perspectival depth, as receding into the past, moving into the present, projecting itself into the future.
2009

Established Artists

Articles Artist Do Ho Suh Weaves Shapes of Memories Known for his fabric sculptures that reconstruct to scale homes, artist Do Ho Suh (b. 1962) works across various media, creating drawings, film, and sculptural works that confront questions of home, physical space, displacement, memory, individuality, and collectivity. Over the past three decades, he has built an international reputation for his intriguing and creative works.
2024.07.02
Articles The Art of Curing by Artist Yeesookyung Yeesookyung (b. 1963) has worked across a diverse range of mediums, including painting, installation, sculpture, performance, video, and drawing, all of which encapsulate historical and cultural contexts.
2024.09.17