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Exhibitions
《The Statue Knows How to Dance》, 2021.07.08 – 2021.07.31, Gallery SP
The solo exhibition 《The Statue Knows How to Dance》 by rising sculptor Rhee Donghoon, known for his distinctive and sensuous approach to sculpture, was held at Gallery SP from July 8 (Thu) to July 31 (Sat). Marking the artist’s second solo show, the exhibition presented approximately twelve works including both sculptures and paintings.
2021.07.05
Articles
Artist Minkyoo Choi’s ‘Architectural Sculpture’: Where Material and Immaterial, Familiar and Unfamiliar Intersect
Minkyoo Choi (b. 1987) works across the boundaries of installation and new media, exploring the points at which the material and the immaterial, the familiar and the unfamiliar intersect. Drawing from the anxiety and sense of dislocation that emerged as he adapted to a new environment after moving to the Middle East with his father during childhood, the artist reassembles unfamiliar visual images of the places he encountered and lived in, along with his personal experiences, into his own form of architectural sculpture that transcends time, space, and culture.
2026.05.04
Articles
[Critique] Art in Practice after Sewol Ferry Disaster
“It will be cloudy across the country with rains in many places in the southern regions.”Those were the words formed by the immaculate cut–up strips of metal foil neatly arranged on the window. Then the sky gradually grew darker, and it really began to rain. As the raindrops began to glide down the glass window against the sullen scenery outside, the overlapping sentence took on an uncanny meaning. I found myself reading the same sentence over and over again.
2020
Exhibitions
《The Book of Distance》, 2024.09.06 – 2024.10.18, National Asian Culture Center (ACC)
The Korea Foundation (KF, President Ki-hwan Kim), in collaboration with the Gwangju Biennale Foundation (CEO Yang-woo Park), will simultaneously present the exhibition 《The Book of Distance》 at KF Gallery (Suhadong, Jung-gu, Seoul) from September 6 to October 18 and at the National Asian Culture Center (ACC), Culture Creation Hall, Complex Exhibition Hall 6, Gwangju, from September 7 to December 1.
2024.09.04
Articles
[Critique] Traversing, dance and conversation
‘One night with someone’s t-shirt in my bed’ (2006-2007), photo series by Youngjoo Cho, a record of her own expressionless face and stiff body right from the bed, has as interesting content as the imagination that the title enables.
2018
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Activities
Why Musician G-Dragon Went to the Museum
PEACEMINUSONE. This term encapsulates the worldview pursued by G-Dragon (27, birth name Kwon Jiyong) of the group BIGBANG. It suggests that between a peaceful, utopian world and a reality marked by lack, there exists a point of intersection where ideals and reality meet. The exhibition 《PEACEMINUSONE
2015.06.13
Exhibitions
Bek Hyunjin’s Solo Exhibition “Seoul Syntax” on View Through March 21, 2026, at PKM Gallery
PKM Gallery is pleased to present 《Seoul Syntax》, a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Bek Hyunjin, on view through March 21 at the annex. As an artist, musician, and actor, Bek has cultivated a diverse and boundary-defying practice. The exhibition brings together recent jangji (traditional Korean mulberry paper) paintings, drawings, and video set against the backdrop of Seoul, the city where the artist was born and raised.
2026.02.17
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
