At Frieze Seoul 2025, a wide range of solo presentations will unfold across the Galleries, Focus Asia, and Masters sections. The fair will not only highlight the breadth of historically significant artists’ careers but also spotlight bold new works and large-scale installations by emerging talents.
 
The ten solo presentations by artists working at the forefront of contemporary art worldwide demonstrate the expanded spectrum of Frieze Seoul. Centered on Asia and its diasporas while engaging with perspectives from across the globe, the presentations explore themes including the destructive impulses of late capitalism, queer identity, and the cultural legacies embedded in materials and techniques.

At Booth A14, Thai artist Prapat Jiwarangsan (Sac Gallery) presents his acclaimed series ‘The Portrait of Asian Families’. Working with a combination of digital editing, AI technology, collage, and hand-developed negatives, Jiwarangsan reflects on Thailand’s history, memory, politics, and migration, while revealing how images and identities can be manipulated and falsified.
 
Meanwhile, at Booth A30, Taiwanese artist Tseng Chien-Ying (Kiang Malingue) showcases captivating works that merge traditional techniques with contemporary queer sensibilities. Using ink and mineral pigments on paper, Tseng probes the boundaries between normality and deviation, good and evil, beauty and ugliness.
 
At Booth A32, London-born painter Jadé Fadojutimi (Taka Ishii Gallery) presents a selection of paintings that oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Layering references from Japanese animation, soundtracks, video games, fashion, and personal memory, Fadojutimi’s practice reflects an ongoing process of constructing her own identity.

At Booth B21, artist Lien Truong (Galerie Quynh) presents works that weave together her cross-cultural experiences. Engaging with themes of war and cultural identity, Truong combines traditional painting techniques with materials drawn from both East and West—including antique Japanese textiles—to create works of delicate yet resilient beauty.
 
At Booth C13, Chinese artist Gu Xiaoping (Leo Gallery) unveils his solo project ‘Gracefully Futile.’ While evoking the aesthetics of Western color field painting, Gu’s practice in fact employs traditional Chinese ink-line measuring tools to render precise linear patterns on rice paper and linen. Built through repetition and the discipline of everyday gestures, his works embody a meditative spirituality rooted in Zen Buddhism.
 
Meanwhile, at Booth C18, New York–based Korean artist Suejin Chung (Lee Eugean Gallery) presents paintings populated by what she calls “monsters.” These strange, otherworldly figures emerge from the thresholds of disorder and chaos, evolving into multidimensional beings across her canvases. Expanding into vast supernatural landscapes, Chung’s creatures channel a universe of layered iconographies and uncanny vitality.

At Booth F03, the Tokyo-based art collective Side Core (Parcel) is featured. Founded in 2012, Side Core has created site-specific works that respond to urban spaces we inhabit together, street art and culture, and often-invisible infrastructures such as sewers. For Frieze Seoul, the collective presents a range of works including ceramic pieces, sculptures made from construction materials, and paintings inspired by signage.
 
At Booth F06, Sungoo Im (DrawingRoom), a Korean artist born in the 1990s, presents an installation that extends her practice of “fixing” memories through materials such as paper, graphite, and salvaged debris. For Frieze Seoul, Im unveils The House in the Cabinet; Narrative under the Premise of Extinction, an installation constructed from the remnants of her grandmother’s demolished home, imbuing material fragments with layered histories of loss and preservation.
 
At Booth F08, emerging Korean artist Eugene Jung (sangheeut) introduces an installation that envisions the “viscera” of cities and societies—their interiors exposed, fractured, and reconfigured into the ruins of speculative futures. With a keen interest in speculative narratives, Jung’s work probes how modes of living might be imagined—or broken apart—within destroyed communal futures.

Maria Hassabi (The Breeder), a Cyprus-born artist known for her work with manipulated and composite images, presents a solo presentation at The Breeder gallery booth. Her practice spans photography, sculpture, and performance, often incorporating reflective surfaces such as mirrors and gold leaf to evoke unreal or inverted versions of the self.
 
For more details on the solo presentations, please visit the Frieze Seoul website: https://www.frieze.com

References

• 프리즈 서울 보도자료 (Frieze Seoul)