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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
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Unmake Lab: Exploring the Relationships Between Technology, Nature, and Society Through Technological Appropriation
Unmake Lab, a collective formed in 2016 by Binna Choi and Sooyon Song, appropriates machine perception to explore ways in which humans, nature, and society can engage with one another through computational means. Their practice particularly focuses on intersecting elements of artificial intelligence—such as datasets, computer vision, and generative neural networks—with the history of developmentalism in Asia, thereby revealing the social, spatial, and ecological conditions of the present.
2025.06.16
Exhibitions
《Two, Lying Down, Exposed Roots》 2024.05.10 – 2024.07.21 Johyun Gallery (Haeundae)
May 10th, Johyun Gallery Haeundae is pleased to present Hyunsun Jeon’s 17 new paintings for her latest exhibition, 《Two, Lying Down, Exposed Roots》. Jeon’s latest -seen-before works come from the streams and cascades of cogitation the artist has waded through, collected, and crystallized on the relationship between two things and the hidden nature of what is essential.
2024.05.09
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
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[Critique] The Tower of Babel Built by Books
Hong Kyoung-tack is an artist who presented a new milestone of contemporary still life painting. He opens our eyes to realize that still life painting is not about painting of objects literally still but about painting full of images emitting intense energy like fireworks.
2019.10.16
