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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

Articles Artist Eunsi Jo: Exploring the Meaning of Existence through 'Irresistible Structures' and the Principle of 'Resemblance' Eunsi Jo (b. 1999) focuses on “irresistible structures” beyond human control—such as family, the food chain, and natural disasters—as well as on the principle of “resemblance.” Drawing on the interrelations between the individual and the community, and between the part and the whole, she presents distinctive paintings that unfold the meaning of existence through forms resembling signs, symbols, and diagrams.
2025.11.03
Activities Goyoson's 'Alongside' Wins Porsche Frontier Award The Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture announced on the 19th that the Grand Prize at the 3rd Seoul Arts Awards has been awarded to the theater group Jeok’s play The Jew of Malta.
2025.03.19

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Hana Yoo: Experimental Narratives on Instability Arising from Polarization and Othering Hana Yoo (b. 1987) has developed a practice grounded in video and installation, focusing on othered subjects, their entangled political contexts, and states of psychological fragmentation. She visually investigates the instability arising from contemporary polarization and processes it through experimental narratives that parody reality, thereby probing and subverting the psycho-political landscape.
2026.05.25
Exhibitions “Ghost Out of the Machine” on View Through November 10, 2024, at Incheon International Airport Incheon International Airport Corporation, together with the Korea Arts Management Service, hosts the media art exhibition “Ghosts Out of the Machine” at Incheon International Airport Terminal 1, Terminal 2, and Concourse. The exhibition will be held until November 10, aiming to coincide with Kiaf and Frieze Seoul.
2024.07.30

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Shamanism, Engineering, and Art – The Transitional Domains in Beak Jungki’s Works The "artist as shaman" was one of the most popular artistic models of the 20th century, favored by both art professionals and the general public. It is ironic that at a time when avant-garde art—destructive and iconoclastic in nature—was gaining momentum
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Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《The Unclassified》 at the Korean Cultural Centre UK — Meekyoung Shin, Ayoung Kim, siren eun young jung, and Gala Porras-Kim: Four Perspectives on Cultural Preservation and Interpretation The Korean Cultural Centre UK in London presents 《The Unclassified》 from 25 September to 31 December 2026. Bringing together four Korean and Korean-heritage artists—Meekyoung Shin, Ayoung Kim, siren eun young jung, and Gala Porras-Kim—the exhibition examines how museums and galleries preserve, document, and classify culture. At its centre are the processes through which artworks and artefacts shape cultural knowledge, alongside the experiences and memories that these systems cannot fully capture.
2026.09.15

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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Jupiter Project》, 2021.12.03 – 2021.12.30, Space Heem The exhibition 《Jupiter Project》 takes its name from the acronym JUPITR, which stands for Joint USFK Portal and Integrated Threat Recognition—a U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) program designed to prepare for biochemical warfare. Among all countries outside the United States, Korea is the only nation where the JUPITR Project is being conducted, specifically in four locations: Busan, Osan, Pyeongtaek, and Gunsan.
2021.12.01
Articles [Critique] [Our Contemporary Artists Met by Jinsook Lee] Conceptual Artist Bae Young-whan A familiar popular song everyone remembers. The kind of tune one might hum to soothe pain. Popular songs are the closest source of comfort. Artist Bae Young-whan has written out the lyrics of these songs using materials of healing—pills, cotton balls, and sometimes shards of broken liquor bottles.
2012.05.01

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Partners Desk》, 2024.04.12 – 2024.05.18, ThisWeekendRoom ThisWeekendRoom is pleased to present "Partners Desk," a two-person exhibition featuring Chu Mirim and Hong Seung-Hye, running from April 12 to May 18, 2024.
2024.04.10
Articles [Critique] Type Called ‘Middlemen’: Obscure Anxiety and Minute Rupture When Walter Benjamin announced a new experience in visual perception to be brought by the eye of a camera with high expectation in the early 20th century, photography had already been enthusiastically capturing everything in existence for many years. While many focused on the
2012
Articles [Critique] The Clodium
2012