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Exhibitions
《Run》, 2022.07.20 – 2022.09.07, Museumhead
Today, disasters have become an everyday occurrence. How Jung Eugene's solo exhibition, 《RUN》 (2022) would approach and escape the disaster that has become a daily routine, but has lost its sense of reality. In the exhibition, Jung Eugene creates a kind of theme park by combining and exaggerating various scenes of disasters.
2022.07.18
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[Critique] 2022 PUBLIC ART NEW HERO - Capturing Fleeting Moments
Sejin Hong is an artist who paints the sensory experience of traversing between the material and immaterial, the real and the virtual. Drawing from her own experiences, she edits and reprocesses the subjectivity of auditory perception into visual outcomes. Through this process, she translates information accumulated through perception into phenomena that cannot otherwise be experienced, manifesting them on canvas and within space. She fills the blank spaces of auditory perception with images of simple shapes, lines, concrete spaces, and planes.
2022
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Artist Heejung Choi: On Marginalized and Excluded Beings
Heejung Choi (b. 1987) has developed her practice around an interest in what is marginalized, excluded, or unable to become part of the mainstream, as well as what was once central but later disregarded. Working primarily with video, she addresses the overlooked and excluded domains within a neoliberal system that prioritizes growth and progress. Through this, the artist ultimately seeks to explore the human condition and the meaning of life.
2026.05.18
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Artist Sunghyeop Seo: A ‘Topological’ Art That Disrupts the Hierarchy of Reality
Sunghyeop Seo (b. 1986) questions the notion of "pureness," understood as a state untainted by other elements, and continues his practice of restoring the diverse possibilities that are often eliminated in the process of purification. To this end, he experiments with ways of blending the senses and forms inherent in different media, creating cracks and gaps in the narratives shaped by "pureness" and challenging existing systems and modes of thought.
2025.08.25
Exhibitions
《An Obscure Reply》, 2017.03.30 - 2017.05.07, ARARIO GALLERY
There are times when we run into unexpected fragments of imageries that resurface from the in-betweens of our memory and oblivion of happiness, exquisiteness, or violence that leaves us with trauma. Lee Jinju, with
2017.03.28
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Articles
[Critique] Photography-Act Project: Camera Lucida, Camera Obscura…
Myoung Ho Lee has become famous with his 'Tree' series, photographed with installing backdrops against trees and emphasizing the original beauty of their forms. In studio photography, it is an old tradition for photographers to use backdrops, which is related to Western art’s still-life painting.
After 2006
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[Essay] Artist Hong Kyoungtack Paints Desires in Splendid Colors and Patterns
Aside from the recent peak, South Korea has gone through several art market booms in the past. The boom in the 2000s was an important time for the Korean art market, as it went through structure diversification with new art fairs and auction houses opening and many galleries seeking to expand their activities outside the country.
2022.08.15
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[Critique] Cho Duck Hyun: Archaeology of Memory
The keyword of Cho Duck Hyun’s work is “memory.” He has consistently undertaken the task of transferring old black-and-white photographs onto canvas or hanji. Using pencil, charcoal, and conté, he meticulously “reproduces” photographs as paintings. Since he mainly works with portrait photographs, standing before these images often produces a moment of astonishment: are they paintings that resemble photographs, or photographs that resemble paintings? They are what might be called “photo paintings.”
2021
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Artist Kibong Rhee Paints a World Beyond the ‘Layer’
Known for his fog landscape paintings, Kibong Rhee (b. 1957) is one of Korea's leading mid-career artists who has been working in-depth with installations and paintings since the 1980s. He has been primarily interested in the structure and flow that constitute the essence of people, objects, and the world, and the various meanings they derive.
2024.08.06
