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 Haena Yoo: Exploring the Contradictions and Emotions Embedded in Capitalist Society
Haena Yoo (b. 1990) has presented performative installation works that bring together material and immaterial elements such as found materials, video, sound, food, fermentation, and smell into a single functioning system. Through this, she has explored the roots of anxiety and desire that emerge within consumer capitalist society, while examining the ambivalent emotions she experiences as both a consumer and a contemporary individual.
2025.12.01
Articles
[Critique] Gijeong Goo’s Rendering ≥ World =%세GyeSe계세계Saegye
Working as an independent curator, she creates diverse exhibition programs and writes about art. Additionally, she assists with public institutional agendas through corporate and institutional consulting, outsourced research, and project planning.
2025.02
Exhibitions
《Here and There》, 2025.03.20 – 2025.04.30, Galerie Lelong & Co. (Paris)
"I dream a lot" says Hyunsun Jeon. In her paintings, she tries to capture the diffuse feelings that persist when you wake up, when what remains of your dreams are impressions, colours and hybrid shapes – impossible syntheses of real memories. But Jeon's painting, however dreamlike, is above all driven by a concrete quest: what is an image, what is representation ?
2025.03.18
Exhibitions
《MOTIF》, 2018.11.28 – 2018.12.30, Hakgojae Gallery
Hakgojae Gallery presents the group exhibition 《Motif》 at its New Building from November 28 (Wed) to December 30 (Sun), 2018. Following the exhibitions 《Intuition 2017》 held last year and 《Intuition》 in 2010, this show marks the gallery’s third group exhibition spotlighting emerging artists.
2018.11.27
Exhibitions
《Submerged Serenity》, 2025.09.20 - 2025.10.18, Ingahee Gallery
《Submerged Serenity》 is a solo exhibition by Kim Shinwook, marking his return to Seoul after two years. Over the course of four years, the artist observed bitterling fish in a small tank by his studio window, documenting the cycle of hatching, growth from fry to adult, and spawning once again.
2025.09.18
Articles
[Essay] Artist Kim Heejo's "BYR Prime Elements" & "Schematic Medium"
BYR Prime Elements by artist Kim Heejo (b. 1980) is a group of circle-shaped paintings comprising ninety-nine units. The work consists of thirty-three “Blue,” “Yellow,” and “Red” pieces that are an inch (2.54 cm) thick and have a diameter of 18 inches (45.72 cm), designed to rotate 360 degrees.
2022.08.22
Exhibitions
《UN-TITLED or NO-TITLED》, 2019.03.01 – 2019.03.31, Zaha Museum
For its first exhibition of 2019, Zaha Museum presents Myoung Ho Lee’s solo exhibition 《UN-TITLED or NO-TITLED》. Throughout his career, Lee has focused on the act and process itself as the true essence of photography, rather than the photographic image as an end result.
2019.03.01
Exhibitions
《2015 Korea Artist Prize》, 2015.08.04 – 2015.11.01, MMCA Seoul
Greeting its fourth year, ‘Korea Artist Prize’ is a system co-organized by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA, Korea) and the SBS Foundation adhering to the mission of promoting artists with great possibilities, vision and new alternative to Korean contemporary art. From the year 2015, ‘Korea Artist Prize’ will be held at the Seoul branch of MMCA, Korea.
2015.08.01
