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

NextGen:
3 K-Artists This Week

NextGen K-Artists Library

Made possible by

Pink Tab shuffle

New Artists

Articles [Analysis] Exhibition 《Materidelia》 Artwork Description Weavers’ Room immerses viewers in a quiet, intimate space where women are engaged in the timeless rituals of weaving and sewing.
2024.11.02
Exhibitions 《Transversing》, 2019.11.15 – 2019.11.30, Post Territory Ujeongguk At her first solo exhibition 《Transversing》 at Post Territory Ujeongguk, Mooni Perry presents two video and installation works, stepping away from her primary medium of painting.
2019.11.10

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Dwindles to a Point and Vanishes》, 2021.05.20 – 2021.07.11, Art Sonje Center 《Dwindles to a Point and Vanishes》 painters Eunjoo Rho and Heejoon Lee and sculptors Kwon Hyun Bhin and Sue Yon Hwang to present their work in an exhibition that observes the juxtaposition of flatness and volume in terms of the conditions and properties of their respective
2021.05.20
Exhibitions 《When you understand my secret, it becomes a ghost》, 2024.09.13 – 2024.10.19, Esther Schipper (Berlin) Esther Schipper is delighted to announce 《When you understand my secret, it becomes a ghost》, Hyunsun Jeon’s first solo presentation with the gallery. On view will be 10 new paintings by Jeon whose representation was announced in February of this year.
2024.09.11

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Artist Note] Seo Jaewoong's ‘Yin and Yang’ and the ‘Five Elements’ Through the philosophy of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, I explore the ideas of connection and circulation. Everything in existence is interconnected, moving in circular rhythms where every ending becomes a new beginning.
Unknown

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《2017 Art Sonje Project #5: Chan Sook Choi – Re – move》, 2017.09.01 – 2017.09.24, Art Sonje Center Project Space Art Sonje Center presents 《2017 Art Sonje Project #5: Chan Sook Choi – Re – move》 from 09.01 to 9.24.
2017.08.30
The One & Only Place
Where Korean Contemporary Art
Meets the World Every Moments
Join for Newsletters

& limited access to news & exhibitions

Follow Us on Social Media

Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Yang Ah Ham: Adjective Life in the Nonsense Factory》, 2010.03.06 – 2010.04.25, Art Sonje Center Yang Ah Ham has been working in the Netherlands from 2006. Ham also traveled to many areas, including the US and the Middle East. She has been working in experimental installation with various media such as video, drawing, sculpture, objects and performance. Ham has always been interested
2010.03.06
Exhibitions 《Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989》, 2016.05.04 – 2016.07.24, MMCA Seoul 《Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989》 explores and illuminates how photography has been developing as a unique and mature visual language and form in itself whilst interacting with other forms of contemporary visual languages in last three decades of contemporary Korean art.
2016.05.04
Activities 120 Million Won ‘BTS Painting’
2019.07.12

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Korean Waves韓流 : Meet 6 Photographers and Korea》, 2011.07.14 – 2011.10.16, Aram Museum of Art The “Korean Wave” (Hallyu), which began with television dramas in China in 1997, has since continued through K-pop and now extends beyond Asia, captivating audiences around the world. In fact, the term “Hallyu” was originally coined by Chinese media to describe the widespread popularity of Korean popular culture. Over time, its meaning has expanded to refer more broadly to the phenomenon in which people overseas admire and embrace Korean culture itself.
2011.07.14
Articles Artist Lee Bul Explores the World as a Hybrid that Transcends Boundaries Lee Bul (b. 1964)’s narrative is reflected in her works through sharp social criticism, historical consciousness, and a search for utopian humanism. The artist draws inspiration from diverse sources – including film, literature and modern architecture, as well as European and South Korean history – to create hybrid forms that convey a fantastical and often disconcerting dystopian vision.
2024.07.02