K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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《Black Sun》, 2018.11.01 – 2028.11.17, Onground 2
I’m at a museum in Kyoto, Japan. Currently, it is hosting an exhibition of Japan’s national treasures. I find myself unable to leave the Buddhist art section. Despite their age, the large-scale Buddhist paintings possess a solemnity and sanctity that is deeply moving.
2018.10.31
Articles
[Column] The Artist’s Room – Pop Artist Hong Kyoungtack
There are not many artists who are both critically acclaimed and widely popular. This is even more true in the art world. Last year, artist Hong Kyoungtack (46) experienced two significant milestones. His work Pencil 1 was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong for the highest price ever recorded for a Korean artwork (approximately 960 million KRW), bringing him widespread recognition.
2014.03.13
Articles
[Critique] Charged Zero
The solo exhibition 《LUCID》 by Nakhee Sung at PIBI Gallery successfully transfers the spatial sensibility constructed within her two-dimensional works to the exhibition space itself. At the same time, by placing two earlier works at the end of the show, the exhibition hints at the continuity of her artistic trajectory
2020.03.05
Articles
The Art of Connection and Communication by Artist Sora Kim
Sora Kim (b. 1965) is one of the representative Korean conceptual artists who has been making forays into open interpretations of humans and surroundings through video, sound, installation and performance based on entering into a relationship and the process of communication.
2024.10.01
Articles
[Review] Empty Morph
The Page Gallery’s group exhibition 《Soh(素)_empty morph》, featuring Kim Tschoon Su, Shin Soohyeok, and Cheon Kwangyup, presents works by three artists who pursue a shared process of “returning to a single origin (素) through non-purposiveness and the dreaming of the body.”
2021