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Artist Kang Cheolgyu: Surreal Landscapes Reflecting the Inner Psyche
Kang Cheolgyu (b. 1990) presents narrative paintings in which reality and fiction intersect, drawing from autobiographical experiences. He projects his inner conflicts onto specific subjects and situations, reconstructing them through a symbolic visual language. The fictional worlds he builds on canvas function as psychological landscapes—symbolic spaces that metaphorically reflect his own reality.
2025.07.21
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
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《Foreverism: Endless Horizons》, 2024.04.12 – 2024.06.23, Ilmin Museum of Art
Nostalgia has become the paramount industry of our era. Across the realms of society, culture, and politics, much of what rises in popularity is tethered to sentiments of nostalgia. Social media exchanges past glories for today’s traffic, idol groups vie to inherit the pop culture legacies of the past century,
2024.04.11
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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
