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Exhibitions
“Within and Without” on View Through June 28, 2026, at Gyeongnam Art Museum
Gyeongnam Art Museum presents the exhibition 《Within and Without》 through June 28. Today, as our bodies, memories, and modes of survival have undergone rapid transformation, the forms of community that once defined us can no longer fully account for our lives. We now find ourselves in a position to reco
2026.04.21
Exhibitions
“URBAN CONSCIOUSNESS on View Through May 9, 2026, at WWNN
WWNN presents a group exhibition 《URBAN CONSCIOUSNESS》 on view through May 9. The city is no longer just a physical backdrop. It is a cognitive field where sensation, memory, power, technology, and desire overlap, continually reshaping a shared mental structure. It does not simply sit behind experience. It quietly organises how perception and thought take form.
2026.04.21
Exhibitions
“Dreaming by Day” on View Through July 8, 2026, at Wooran Foundation
The Wooran Foundation presents the special exhibition 《Dreaming by Day》 through July 8, examining the sense of helplessness and fatigue that individuals encounter amid a rapidly changing society. Having long explored the aesthetics embedded in the skilled hands of artisans and the processes of making, the foundation expands the value of “making” from the realm of material craft into that of the mind and imagination through this exhibition.
2026.06.30
Articles
[Critique] From Brawl to Theater
Hyeree Ro’s portfolio contains performances that are in the process of transformation and expansion, taking the ongoing series ‘LA-sung’ as a point of departure. The reason for taking ‘LA-sung’ (2016) as a starting point is that there is a clear moment of change between the works she produced
2017
Exhibitions
《Black, Pink Balls》, 2014.09.03 – 2014.10.04, DOOSAN Gallery
DOOSAN Gallery Seoul is pleased to present 《Black, Pink Balls》, on view from September 3, 2014 to October 4, 2014. 《Black, Pink Balls》 is the solo exhibition of Minae Kim, winner of the 2013 4th DOOSAN Artist Award. In this exhibition, the artist seeks to examine the contradiction that arises when one ceaselessly
2014.09.02
Articles
[Critique] After the Show, Where Do They Go?
Artworks are not people. They are not alive in any conventional sense of the word. Yet, they are not inert either. Through the work of the artist, the original base materials are transformed into something with meaning and coherence
2019
Exhibitions
《Amazing Multiverse》, 2023.06.16 – 2023.07.13, The Soso
The union of the two artists is not a simple addition in which one plus one becomes two. Until the moment their works are hung together in one space, innumerable possibilities exist between them. Many of those possibilities pass by ordinarily without great change; some become events that offer a bit of amusement; others yield completely unexpected results.
2023.06.16
Exhibitions
《Open Hands》, 2024.08.30 – 2024.09.15, Gallery Hyundai
Gallery Hyundai presents 《Open Hands》, a collaborative exhibition with Commonwealth and Council. Open Hands is a kind gesture, a generous invitation to gather works by an intergenerational group of artists:
2024.08.29
