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

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Young Artists

Exhibitions Seoul Museum of Art Presents Landmark Exhibition in Abu Dhabi: Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits Bridges, Korean Contemporary Art and the Gulf Region Abu Dhabi has become the latest stage for a landmark presentation of Korean contemporary art, as the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) launches its most ambitious international exhibition to date in the Gulf region.
2025.05.20
Exhibitions 《CONDO London 2024 - Heroes》, 2024.01.20 – 2024.02.17, Project Native Informant (London) For the exhibition Heroes, P21 presents the works of South Korean artist Taewon Ahn alongside Gianni Manhattan presenting the works of French artist Ibrahim Meïté Sikely. What results is an exploration of the interplay of the contemporary uncanny within the practices of Taewon Ahn and Ibrahim Meïté Sikely.
2024.01.15

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Mono Mansion》, 2023.07.21 – 2023.08.13, OUTHOUSE We all live in our own houses. Each “house” takes a different form, and our ideas and meanings of home are just as varied. Whatever shape that home may assume — whatever attitude we hold within it — we all step out of it, only to return again.
2023.07.20
Articles [Critique] What Fills Time: Object, Body, Language Sculpture and installation often make me think about the ways in which time can be contained. Sculpture or installation itself is generally perceived as something that remains still in place. Yet even without producing direct physical movement, as in kinetic sculpture,
2018

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Press the Button!》, 2019.04.10 – 2019.05.11, UARTSPACE UARTSPACE opens Lee Eunsil’s solo exhibition 《Press the Button!》 from April 10th to May 11th as the first one of 2019.
2019.04.10

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Essay] A Familiar Yet Strange Scene Unfolds in Kim Taedong's Photographs The images in Kim Taedong’s photographs might appear familiar at first sight. Kim’s works depict stars floating in the night sky, suburban landscapes unfolding in the frame, and people encountered on the street. Nonetheless, the artworks have a somewhat eerie atmosphere that induces anxiety and tension.
2022.07.25

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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《The Square: Art and Society in Korea》 part 2, 2019.10.17 – 2020.03.29, MMCA Gwacheon 《The Square》 Part 2 reframes the interrelations of Korean society and Korean contemporary art as part of the 50th Anniversary Exhibition of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA).
2019.10.15
Exhibitions 《Leeum 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Beyond and Between》, 2014.08.19 – 2014.12.21, Leeum Museum of Art To commemorate the 10th anniversary of its opening, the Leeum Museum of Art presents the exhibition 《Leeum 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Beyond and Between》 from August 19 to December 21.
2014.08.18

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《(Im)Possible Landscape》, 2012.11.08 - 2013.02.03, PLATEAU Samsung Museum of Art PLATEAU presents the exhibition 《(Im)Possible Landscape》 from November 8 to February 3, 2013. Through the familiar motif of “landscape,” the exhibition explores the impossibility—or alternatively the new possibilities—of perceiving reality that contemporary art’s imagination can reach.
2012.11.06
Exhibitions 《A Gateway to Possible Worlds: Art & Science Fiction》, 2022.11.05 – 2023.04.10, Centre Pompidou-Metz Lee Bul’s “Transcription (Drift & Scatter),” 2006, is now being showcased in the exhibition A Gateway to Possible Worlds: Art & Science Fiction at the Centre Pompidou Metz.
2022.12,09