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Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.

Mid-Career:
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Young Artists

Exhibitions 《The Squid Chooses Its Own Ink》, 2022.11.09 – 2022.11.29, Post Territory Ujeongguk All participants in the exhibition—two poets, three visual artists, a curator, and a designer—were born in the 1990s. Those born in this decade are labeled through society and media as the “Millennial generation,” “Generation Z,” or “MZ generation.” Under these labels, our generation is categorized as digitally fluent, value-driven, and prioritizing individual happiness.
2022.11.08
Articles Artist Yuja Kim: Between the Visible and the Invisible Yuja Kim (b. 1995) poses questions about the “visible” and the “invisible” through the medium of photography. While her works may appear as fixed, singular scenes, closer attention reveals subtle movements and a sense of vitality permeating the images.
2026.02.09

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Donghae Kim: Visualizing Rhythms Perceived from Nature Donghae Kim (b. 1987) primarily works with metal materials such as brass, silver, and iron, creating works that visualize the rhythms and structures he perceives from nature—grass, trees, and wind. Beginning with close observation of both the material and immaterial elements that constitute the natural world, the artist translates these into his own sculptural language.
2026.05.04
Exhibitions 《Credits》, 2024.08.24 - 2024.09.22, Jungganjijeom 《Credits》 explores the collaborative relationship resonating within the worlds of the two artists, Hyeree Ro and Jieun Uhm, centered around the "credits." The roles in the credits of their works are usually concise,
2024.08.22

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Chaos Kong》, 2023.07.12 – 2023.08.12, BAIK Art BAIKART announces the solo exhibition by Chu Mirim 《Chaos Kong》 opening on July 12. CHU Mirim (추미림 b.1982) is an artist who has been experimenting with grids and pixels as a visual language, bridging the gap between design and fine art, and is currently
2023.07.06

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Description》, 2022.04.02 - 2022.04.29, Gallery SoSo Gazing on and on and on. That is how time goes. Artists spend such a long period of time with objects. In the meantime, the objects reside in their heart. At last, their image is visualized in their work.
2022.04.01

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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Black Gold in Switzerland》, 2006.03.10 – 2006.03.31, Art Space Pool Art Space Pool has invited artist Rho Jae Oon for the first exhibition to be held at its new location in Gugi-dong.
2006.03.09
Articles [Critique] Life Revealed Through Images, The Identity That Gazes Upon Them Hong Sungchul introduces multimedia art as a narrative medium through which to address the essence of life and the origins of art. The moving images produced through such technological media
2002

Established Artists

Activities A Former Rice Mill Bearing the Pain of Exploitation Reimagined as a Space of Reflection Connecting Past and Present: Artist Cho Duck Hyun’s Old Mill Chunpo Project Entangled vines grow thickly along exposed wooden beams, and sunlight filters through gaps in the broken corrugated metal roof of the 110-year-old Chunpo rice-milling factory. Located in Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, the site now displays a large black-and-white photograph of a young woman wearing hanbok.
2024.05.18
Activities Presidential Commendation in the Visual Arts Category of the Republic of Korea Culture and Arts Award Professor Koo Bohnchang (62), of the Department of Photography and Media Arts at Kyungil University, has received the Presidential Commendation in the visual arts category at the 47th Republic of Korea Culture and Arts Award.
2015.11.16
Articles [Review] Kiwon Park’s Red Room
2019.06.25