K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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Artist Inhwa Yeom: Reconstructing Minority Experiences through ‘3D Performative Apparatus–Environment’
Inhwa Yeom (b. 1991) has been reconstructing the experiences of historical minorities through technology, devising ways to embrace the actions, reactions, and expressions of diverse beings. To this end, she has been developing an XR-based “3D Performative Apparatus–Environment,” leading audiences to experiences of “becoming other beings” through cognitive, psychological, and physical participation.
2025.10.20
Articles
[Critique] Bloated Surfaces and Fragile Image Strategies
A spherical form made of steel is covered with sharp iron cones protruding like spikes, and on one side of it sits a rectangular image. Careful not to let one’s gaze be captured by the threatening cones jutting out as if they might pierce, one cautiously looks into the image and encounters a ray of light that appears to be an exit, seen within a cave or the ruins of a collapsed building.
2023
Exhibitions
《Allover》, 2018.10.26 – 2018.12.01, HITE Collection
HITE Collection presents 《Allover》 as the autumn exhibition program 2018. The exhibition deals with the condition of contemporary painting as well as the questions on how we experience it, proposing to highlight the observation itself of painting. The generations of eleven selected artists including
2018.10.25
Activities
White Cube Seoul Opening Exhibition… Spotlight on Korean Artist Lee Jinju
It is not easy to present a meaningful exhibition at a commercial gallery, as commercial success tends to take priority. This is especially true for group exhibitions. Not only is it difficult to coherently connect the distinct artistic worlds of multiple artists, but the added condition that only “sellable works” must be included further reduces the likelihood.
2013.10.02
Exhibitions
《When Two Galaxies Merge,》, 2017.09.08 – 2017.11.22, Atelier Hermès
The exhibition 《When Two Galaxies Merge,》 by Yangachi (b. 1970) centers on the moment when things that cannot meet—or things that are inevitably bound to meet—collide. Yangachi likens this moment, when the impossible meets the inevitable, to “the moment love begins,” or to “an uncertain sign” of some event that will take place in the future.
2017.09.01
Exhibitions
《Fall into Silence》, 2022.04.29 - 2022.05.29, Gallery LEE & BAE
LEE & BAE is pleased to annouce an exhibition of 《Fall into Silence》 from April 29 to May 29, 2022. The exhibition, which will be held to commemorate the reopening of LEE & BAE in an art space facing the beautiful Suyeong River, is a very meaningful exhibition that shows the passion, effort, and vision of LEE & BAE over a decade.
2022.04.27
Exhibitions
《Ultra-Marine》, 2009.11.05 - 2009.11.28, Artforum Newgate
The canvas surface is typically filled with traces of two colors—blue and white—applied directly by hand. These simple manual marks set the surface into motion. The force and direction exerted on the paint, along with its repetitive flow and rhythm, elevate a single canvas into a work of art.
2009.11.03
