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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Push & Art》, 2020.07.23 – 2020.08.23, Gangdong Arts Center Seoul’s Gangdong District (District Head: Lee Jeong-hoon) announced on July 30 that the Gangdong Cultural Foundation (CEO: Lee Je-hoon), established by the district office, will hold the exhibition 《Push & Art》 until August 23, presenting visual art interpretations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
2020.07.23
Exhibitions “CRUSH ZONE” on View Through June 7, 2025, at Gallery SP Gallery SP presents a group exhibition 《CRUSH ZONE》, on view through June 7, featuring works by artists Eunsaem Ahn, Donghoon Rhee, and Chang Kon Lim.
2025.05.27
Articles [Critique] Image as Structure
2023.06.19

Emerging Artists

Articles [Critique] Attaining Equanimity through Negation: Park Wunggyu’s Eighteen Moths The following excerpt from the artist's statement on Park Wunggyu's website offers a key to understanding his broader practice:
2021
Exhibitions 《I want to buy unseen eyes》, 2024.07.10 – 2024.08.24, MASSIMODECARLO Hong Kong In the infamous movie A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick, one of the most iconic scenes depicts Alex, the protagonist afflicted by an insatiable thirst for “ultra-violence”, undergoing the “Ludovico technique,” a form of aversion therapy in which his eyes are forcibly pried open as he is obligated to watch a series of graphically violent, and disturbing footage.
2024.07.08

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Yunsung Lee : Painting on the cut surface: Yunsung Lee’s gaze on sculpture As can be seen just by looking at the title of the work, ‘torso’ has been treated as a central subject in Yunsung Lee’s paintings2).
2022

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《qbit to adam I, adam》, 2021.02.14 – 2021.04.16, Kang Contemporary, (Berlin) Chan Sook Choi's works are based on her artistic research – research on the movements of people and things, research on what people leave behind and what memory conveys.
2021.02.10
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Beyond Post-Minjoong Art – Bae Young-whan’s The Way of Man and Its Achievements In a certain essay confessing his identity as an artist, Bae Young-whan once made a half-joking, half-serious pledge “to live half as an artist and half as an incompetent.” This may well have been because, to borrow his own words again, he chose to live according to the “nonsensical promise” that
2005.12.23
Exhibitions 《We Where》, 2022.01.19 – 2022.02.26, PKM Gallery As its first exhibition of the year, PKM Gallery is delighted to present 《We Where》, a solo exhibition of Young In Hong (b. 1972), who is an active presence on the global stage, from January 19th to February 26th. At Hong’s exhibition, which is taking place in Korea 2 years after the 《Korea Artist Prize 2019》 at the MMCA, 8 new artworks including a sound installation and a large-scale embroidery work and 2 photo-score series created in 2017 are shown across the entire gallery space.
2022.01.17

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《(Im)Possible Landscape》, 2012.11.08 - 2013.02.03, PLATEAU Samsung Museum of Art PLATEAU presents the exhibition 《(Im)Possible Landscape》 from November 8 to February 3, 2013. Through the familiar motif of “landscape,” the exhibition explores the impossibility—or alternatively the new possibilities—of perceiving reality that contemporary art’s imagination can reach.
2012.11.06
Articles [Critique] Home and Yard, a Ground Embracing Art Home and yard are the grounds of life where work, play, and rest coexist. They are also places that embrace artworks
2015.03.13