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New Artists

Exhibitions 《She seemed devastated, when I was weeping with Joy: A story that ends from the beginning》, 2025.05.05, Apartment of Art, Munich Last year, as part of our residency program (in collaboration with Taipei Artist Village, the Munich Department of Arts and Culture, and Goethe-Institut Taipei), Eunju Hong spent three months at Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei. The exhibition at Apartment der Kunst is based on the artist’s time there. It was during this stay that she first encountered the world of traditional East Asian theatre and puppetry.
2025.05.05
Articles Artist SANGHEE: Co-Created Sensibilities Through Interactive Art SANGHEE (b. 1995) has explored the concrete sensations of temporality—marked by generations or eras—and the collective narratives entangled with those sensations through interactive media activated by viewer participation. Employing VR, performance, real-time simulation, and photographic media, SANGHEE’s works engage audiences as players, prompting them to embody the given game-like rules and thereby transforming the exhibition space into a shared allegory of reality.
2025.10.20

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Hansol Ryu: Visualizing the Paradox of Fear and Humor Deeply influenced by the forms, narratives, and traditions of gore films and comics, Hansol Ryu (b. 1989) has developed a performative practice that spans video, drawing, and installation. The artist is particularly interested in tactile imaginaries associated with bodily transformation, and based on this, creates works that visualize the contradictory sensations of fear and humor as encountered in everyday life.
2026.04.20
Exhibitions 《As we lay dying》, 2022.07.09 – 2022.11.27, Kunstmuseum Den Haag Mire Lee presents a solo show of new ceramic-based work, as the winner of the Stokroos Ceramics Stipend.
2022.07.01

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Machine to Touch the Heart Filled with various fascinating technologies and mechanical devices, Jungki Beak’s studio reminds one more of an experiment lab rather than a studio. Upon closer inspection on the meaning of the devices however, it’s evident that these mechanisms do not have much to do with the so called conventional science,
2013

Late Mid-Career Artists

Activities “Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art,” the First English-language Anthology Focusing on Contemporary Korean Artists from the Millennial Generation, Has Been Published Skira editore and SONGEUN announced the publication of Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art by Andy St. Louis, a survey of Korean artists from the Millennial Generation.
2024.06.10
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions “Maniera” on View Through December 16, 2023, at the DOOSAN Gallery If you want to explore the leading contemporary artists shaping the art scene in South Korea, consider checking out the exhibition Maniera at the DOOSAN Gallery, running until December 16.
2023.11.22
Articles [Review] Shaking your Hair loose Is it possible to create in a state where consciousness is maximally excluded? From the Surrealists of the 1920s and 30s to Jackson Pollock—who hoped that paint would settle onto the canvas through the unrestrained movements of the body—
2015

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Knocking Air》, 2020.05.12 – 2020.07.05, Barakat Contemporary Barakat Contemporary will present Chung Seoyoung’s solo exhibition, 《Knocking Air》, from 12th May to 5th July 2020. Chung Seoyoung is an artist who played a leading role in establishing ‘Contemporary Art’ as a new category within the Korean art world in the 1990s.
2020.05.12
Articles [Review] Empty Morph The Page Gallery’s group exhibition 《Soh(素)_empty morph》, featuring Kim Tschoon Su, Shin Soohyeok, and Cheon Kwangyup, presents works by three artists who pursue a shared process of “returning to a single origin (素) through non-purposiveness and the dreaming of the body.”
2021