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Activities ARKO Art Center Launches ‘2025 ARKO DAY’ Amid Busy September Art Fair Season The Arts Council Korea (ARKO, Chairperson Byoung-gug Choung) and the ARKO Art Center will hold the public program “2025 ARKO DAY” from August 26 to September 7 at the ARKO Art Center and ARKO Arts Theater, introducing young artists and curators.
2025.08.26
Exhibitions 《Cut and paste》, 2022.05.06 – 2022.06.04, Gallery Stan Digital nomads are the norm in 2022. Along with the blockchain, we exist both physically and virtually. Physical distance is now easier to overcome than ever before. The boy born in 1993 has become a digital native in no time. Because of his father's influence as a programmer, reality and the digital world had already been blended seamlessly for the artist who encountered the Internet earlier than anyone else.
2022.05.01

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Black Sun》, 2018.11.01 – 2028.11.17, Onground 2 I’m at a museum in Kyoto, Japan. Currently, it is hosting an exhibition of Japan’s national treasures. I find myself unable to leave the Buddhist art section. Despite their age, the large-scale Buddhist paintings possess a solemnity and sanctity that is deeply moving.
2018.10.31
Exhibitions “This Is Not Just Local: Tactical Practices” on View Through July 7, 2024, at Museum of Contemporary Art Busan Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (Busan MoCA) presents the large-scale exhibition “This Is Not Just Local: Tactical Practices” on 1-2 floors and outdoor garden, on view from February 24 to July 7.
2024.02.20

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Song Min Jung: Tracing Movement Between Virtual and Real to Reflect on the Present Song Min Jung (b. 1985) has pursued a practice that traces the meaning of “movement” within a world where the physical and non-physical are intertwined, as a way of perceiving the present. Rather than asserting fixed or eternal values, she takes the transient—such as moods, atmospheres, and states of being—as her material, weaving new worlds across both online and physical spaces.
2025.09.29

Late Mid-Career Artists

Activities CHANEL x Frieze Select Six Artists for ‘Now & Next’ Project Global luxury brand CHANEL and Frieze, one of the world’s three major art fairs, present the fourth season of the “Now & Next” video series, which highlights the perspectives and voices of contemporary Korean artists.
2025.08.04
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Snaplife》, 2014.05.30 – 2014.08.02, Sungkok Art Museum Jina Park (b.1974) portrays on canvas instant, coincidental moments of ordinary and usual situations that she snapshots with a camera and reconstructs into paintings.
2010.11.10
Exhibitions 《yodeleheeyoo~》, 2014.11.07 - 2014.11.26, GAHOEDONG60 Yoo Seungho creates forms by repeatedly writing letters or placing dots. In particular, his landscape series represents his signature “text paintings.” At first glance, they do not appear much different from traditional
2014.11.04

Established Artists

Activities Gimhongsok’s Humorous Installation Acquired by the National Gallery of Canada The humorous installation work The Bremen Town Musicians by Gimhongsok has been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. The museum recently confirmed its decision to purchase the work.
2010.06.10
Exhibitions 《SeMA Gold 2012 : Hidden Track》, 2012.06.19. - 2012.08.26, Seoul Museum of Art As regards the theme of the 《SeMA Gold 2012》 exhibition, which highlights the established Korean artists, I would like to suggest “Hidden Track”, a term used in the production of music albums, as the central concept of this exhibition. A ‘hidden track’ is a bonus song or piece of
2012.06.17