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Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.

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Young Artists

Exhibitions 《Aura Within》, 2025.07.10 – 2025.08.30, Hauser & Wirth (Hong Kong) Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong presents a group show featuring artists profoundly engaged with the cultural tapestry of Asia and its diasporic narratives, including Luis Chan, Haneyl Choi, Nicole Coson, Shota Nakamura, Peng Ke, Yeh Shih-Chiang and Hauser & Wirth artists Bharti Kher, Tetsumi Kudo and Zhang Enli.
2025.07.10
Articles [Critique] Media Grammar as a Field to Realize the Coagulated Body: Critical Review of Gijeong Goo's Solo Exhibition ‘Contrology’ Gijeong Goo's work encompasses experiments with multi-layered media. His series of attempts to summon various media goes beyond mere technological experimentation, incorporating reflections on the method of unraveling the themes he explores.
2022

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《MOTIF》, 2018.11.28 – 2018.12.30, Hakgojae Gallery Hakgojae Gallery presents the group exhibition 《Motif》 at its New Building from November 28 (Wed) to December 30 (Sun), 2018. Following the exhibitions 《Intuition 2017》 held last year and 《Intuition》 in 2010, this show marks the gallery’s third group exhibition spotlighting emerging artists.
2018.11.27
Exhibitions 《Hexed, Vexed and Sexed》, 2023.11.03 – 2024.01.14, West Den Haag (Hague, NL) The title ‘Hexed, Vexed & Sexed’ points to the vexed freedom of women artists in the world today. It reclaims the Hex as a discipline of feminine intellect and politics, capable of transforming social circumstances from the inside out.
2023.09.20

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Cadenza》, 2024.11.14 – 2025.01.11, Korean Culture Center in Hong Kong The Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong presents its annual curated exhibition, “2024 Korean Young Artists Series,” showcasing the works of three leading figures in contemporary Korean painting: Donghyun Son (b. 1980), Jeongsu Woo (b. 1986), and Min Jung Key (b. 1986).
2024.11.05

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《SIZE does matter: too big & too small》, 2022.01.19 - 2022.08.21, Koo House Museum Artworks, even when depicting the same subject or image, can convey completely different meanings and effects depending on their size. When encountering objects of everyday scale, we often feel a sense of familiarity and comfort, approaching them
2022.01.17

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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Museum for All, Museum for Dogs》, 2020.09.04 – 2020.10.25, MMCA The exhibition 《Museum for All, Museum for Dogs》 has opened up the MMCA for companion animals that are sometimes referred to as "family members," but are often restricted to enter public spaces.
2020.09.04
Articles Artist Hyungkoo Lee on ‘Body’ as an Endless Artistic Possibility Hyungkoo Lee (b. 1969) has been producing a diverse body of work on the theme of the ‘body’ for the past 20 years. The artist has been experimenting with the transformation, distortion, and expansion of the body by mobilizing scientific fields such as anatomy along with his artistic imagination.
2024.09.10

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《CHOIJEONGHWA: Forest》, 2018.04.10 - 2019.04.07, Seongbuk Museum of Art The Seongbuk Museum of Art will present artist Choi Jeonghwa’s ‘Forest’ project for one year beginning Tuesday, April 10, 2018, following the creation of the ‘Street Gallery’ space in the Ssangdari district of Seongbuk-dong.
2018.04.08
Exhibitions 《A Gateway to Possible Worlds: Art & Science Fiction》, 2022.11.05 – 2023.04.10, Centre Pompidou-Metz Lee Bul’s “Transcription (Drift & Scatter),” 2006, is now being showcased in the exhibition A Gateway to Possible Worlds: Art & Science Fiction at the Centre Pompidou Metz.
2022.12,09