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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Aura Within》, 2025.07.10 – 2025.08.30, Hauser & Wirth (Hong Kong) Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong presents a group show featuring artists profoundly engaged with the cultural tapestry of Asia and its diasporic narratives, including Luis Chan, Haneyl Choi, Nicole Coson, Shota Nakamura, Peng Ke, Yeh Shih-Chiang and Hauser & Wirth artists Bharti Kher, Tetsumi Kudo and Zhang Enli.
2025.07.10
Articles [Critique] Image as Structure It may be apt to begin this text with 〈All this way to meet you〉(2022). This form, composed of metal chain and plastic clay, harbors two (secret) spaces. There is an internal space where the structurally autonomous chain and materially present clay must come together.
2023.06.19
Articles [Critique] Winter Bud
2025

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions “The 23rd SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition” on view through February 24, 2024, at SONGEUN The SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition is a showcase of the latest works by leading emerging artists in contemporary Korean art in one place. This exhibition features the diversity of contemporary Korean art through the paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, and sound works of 20 young artists born between 1979 and 1990.
2023.12.13
Articles Artist Kim Eunseol: Delving into Listening, Emotion, and Memory Kim Eunseol (b. 1988) explores the sense of “listening,” along with emotion and memory, through her work. Although she uses hearing aids, she communicates more through visual and other sensory perceptions than through hearing itself.
2026.04.20
Articles [Critique] Mire Lee: Carriers
2020.07.23

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] The Art of Relief In the video The World Until Yesterday by Jang Pa, the triangular shape of Sumeru Mountain, which is believed to be the center of the world in Buddhism, fades and only its reflection is left.
2019

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Column] Crossing the Boundaries of Real Landscape Painting Sejin Park is a young artist gaining attention for her works that tell stories about the way we live through landscapes. After a long hiatus since 2007, she presented new works at Doosan Art Center in Jongno, Seoul.
2013.07.25
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Artist Jina Park Reconstructs Fleeting Fragments of Everyday Life Through Painting Jina Park (b. 1974) captures countless fleeting moments of everyday life through photography and reconstructs them into paintings.
2024.12.10
Exhibitions 《Scream》, 2016.05.17 - 2016.06.30, Audio Visual Pavilion Audio Visual Pavilion presents Park Meena’s 《Scream》, May 17-June 30, 2016. A continuation of Park’s 2005 solo exhibition of the same name, this exhibition features eight new works in addition to the original roster of thirty canvases. The icons and the leitmotifs of the series ‘Scream’ serve as a starting point and
2016.05.15

Established Artists

Activities MMCA Artist of the Year… Inhwan Oh’s ‘On My Way to Blind Spots’ The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) has selected artist Inhwan Oh (50) as the winner of the “Artist of the Year 2015.” Oh received the award for his project Finding Blind Spots, which expands the notion of blind spots from their spatial meaning into social and cultural contexts.
2015.10.06
Exhibitions 《MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2019: Park Chan-kyong – Gathering》, 2019.10.26 – 2020.02.23, MMCA, Seoul Park Chan-kyong is born in Seoul (1965) and has lived in the city. He had majored in Painting at the College of Fine Arts but after graduation, he has mainly written about art and curated exhibitions. His first solo exhibition in 1997
2019.10.25