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New Artists

Exhibitions 《What an Artificial World》, 2024.04.26 – 2024.08.25, MMCA, Cheongju The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA; Director: Kim Sunghee) presents 《What an Artificial World》 from 26 April to 25 August, 2024, at the MMCA Cheongju Art Storage Center (hereafter, MMCA Cheongju).
2024.07.01
Exhibitions “The 25th SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition” on View Through February 14, 2026, at SONGEUN SONGEUN Art and Cultural Foundation will present 《The 25th SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition》, on view from December 12, 2025 to February 14, 2026.
2025.12.09

Emerging Artists

Articles [Critique] Mire Lee: Carriers In her sculpture and installation work, Mire Lee uses machinery that operates by simple principles, along with materials that can be felt with the hands. For an artist who regards it as important to touch materials by hand as she works, machinery is a key element that contributes propulsion and repetition to the movements of the substances she touches.
2020.07.23
Exhibitions 《Trajectory of the Spearhead》, 2023.01.12 – 2023.02.25, Chapter II The English term, ‘sign’, is de-corded in our recognition system more quickly than the equivalent Korean word.
2023.03.10

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Aedong》, 2019.03.07-2019.04.14, DOOSAN Gallery New York DOOSAN Gallery New York presents Youngzoo IM’s solo exhibition titled 《Aedong》, from March 7 to April 13, 2019. IM has collected and documented stories and scenes of urban legends, superstitions, pseudo-sciences and pseudo-religions spread throughout society, and has realized them through various mediums such as video, painting, installations, and publications.
2019.03.05

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Chan Sook Choi’s Narratological Experiments Based on Artistic Research: Migration, Movement, and Community Chan Sook Choi (b. 1977) has developed a multisensory visual language centered on themes of migration, movement, and community.
2024.12.31
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Artist Sung Hwan Kim Reimagines the Present and History Through Visual Storytelling Sung Hwan Kim (b. 1975), who works between New York and Amsterdam, has showcased a diverse range of works, incorporating various media such as film, video, drawing, music, architecture, and literature into installations, performances, radio dramas, and books.
2024.10.15
Exhibitions 《Language of the Universe - Nembers》, 2024.06.05 – 2024.08.18, Gwangju Museum of Art Planned to remove the boundaries of preconceived notions and ideas about mathematics through artworks, 《Language of the Universe – Numbers》 offers opportunities for broader and more varied experiences and aims to view “mathematics” and “mathematics education” from multiple perspectives in this era of interdisciplinary
2024.06.01

Established Artists

Activities Fifteen Artists to Participate in the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in June The Korean Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in Italy (June 12–November 6) will present a collaborative exhibition by fifteen artists, the largest number of participants in the pavilion’s history.
2005.03.30
Articles [Critique] Attaism: Eastern Philosophy Realized Through Art "Utimately everything disappears" is a statement which captures Kim Atta's previous works. They have developed dialecally through preservation, dissolution, presercation, and, ultimately, dissolution.
2012.07.25
Activities Choi Gene Uk - Spin-off Project
2024.03.12