K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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《Frankie》, 2021.07.22 – 2021.08.14, N/A
The Story of Frankie — Frankie was a friend that only I could see. My friends did not believe in Frankie’s existence and often passed straight through him. Frankie was afraid of my friends.
2021.07.22
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Artist Sungsil Ryu: Satirizing Reality through Black Comedy and Fictional Characters
Sungsil Ryu (b. 1993) employs black comedy to incisively examine capitalism and individual secular desires that dominate today’s political and social issues in Korea. Through performances, videos, and installations that adopt the format of one-person media broadcasts, the artist satirizes the entangled relationship between Korea’s unique traditional and folkloric values and its neoliberal social structures.
2025.05.26
Exhibitions
《A Sunday Outing》, 2025.05.09 – 2025.06.15, Kumho Museum of Art
Artist Nayoung Kang focuses on “care work” and the relationships formed within it, delicately capturing the structures of life that surround it, along with the physical and emotional tensions it entails, through works in various media.
2025.05.08
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《Memento Moiré》, 2024.08.24 – 2024.10.12, BB&M
BB&M is pleased to present 《Memento Moiré》, a solo exhibition of new work by Minouk Lim, the artist’s first gallery show in her native Korea since 2011. Over a career spanning nearly three decades, Lim has established herself as one of the most acclaimed contemporary Korean artists on the international stage.
2024.08.10
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[Critique] The montage and collage of Yang Ah Ham
Yang Ah Ham creates video art pieces inspired by aspects of life that she has observed and reconstructed into a new form. Ham has recently presented a variety of panoramic artworks through two exhibitions: 《The Square: Art and Society in Korea 1900-2019 Part 3. 2019》 (September 7th
2019.12.05
Articles
[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
