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 Sora Park: Critical Imagination of a Future Accelerated by Technological Advancement
Sora Park (b. 1992) works with a focus on social issues that emerge within contemporary digital media environments such as social media spaces and the metaverse. In particular, she pays attention to phenomena intensified and exposed by the advancement of science and technology, imagining possible situations, characters, and products that could arise in a future where today’s problems have further deepened. She visualizes these ideas through a variety of mediums, including sculpture, video, and installation.
2025.08.25
Exhibitions
《Tactics for an Era》, 2025.08.28 – 2025.12.28, K&L Museum
In our contemporary era, we are witnessing rapid and multifaceted transformations in daily life due to the unprecedented development of artificial intelligence and digital technologies. The increasingly advanced digital
2025.08.28
Exhibitions
Frieze London with Dongwook Suh, Ahnnlee Lee, and Yunhee Choi: 《Acquainted with the Night》
Dongwook Suh, who has long explored portraiture rooted in empathy for human existence, presents cinematic, painterly scenes that capture the hidden inner solitude of contemporary individuals. Choi, who senses unseen aspects of emotion through the body, visualizes the rhythm, breath, and movements experienced during the introspective process. Lee, referencing his 2019 poem "Alchemy," presents sculptural installations that crystallize silent moments of small existences into metal, adding a unique temporal and spatial vitality alongside the paintings by Suh and Choi.
2023.05.27
Exhibitions
《Relief Relief》, on View Through February 04, 2017 at Space Willing N Dealing
Gwon Osang, who majored in sculpture, has built his artistic practice by exploring methods of dealing with both flatness and three-dimensionality, beginning with photographic sculptures that materialize photographic images into sculptural form and subvert the traditions of sculpture. This can be seen in his ‘Deodorant Type’ series, which he has been developing since his undergraduate years in 1998. In this body of work, he collides and rearranges the interrelated elements of weight, volume, and surface image within the sculptural medium by reconstructing images he directly photographs into three-dimensional forms.
2016.12.16
Articles
Artist Choi Jeong Hwa’s Work Begins with Everyday Life
Choi Jeong Hwa (b. 1961) has created a variety of installations that bring cheap everyday consumables such as plastic baskets, piggy banks, artificial flowers, and brooms into the realm of art. By transforming these mass-produced everyday consumer goods into artworks and moving them into museums, the artist blurs the boundaries between high art and popular culture through so-called cheap pop culture, or kitsch, and captures a slice of Korean society.
2024.08.06
Articles
Artist Koo Bohnchang Captures the Soul with a Camera Lens
Koo Bohnchang (b. 1953) has played a key role in the inception and development of contemporary Korean photography from the 1980s to the present. By introducing a new format called "making photo," Koo broke new ground in Korean contemporary photography
2024.07.23
