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New Artists

Articles Artist Sijae Jang’s Informel Sculpture: Strange and Uneasy Sensations When Familiarity Collapses Sijae Jang (b. 1993) focuses on precarious scenes from everyday life—such as faded objects, cracks in broken building facades, and demolition sites—translating the tense gazes and emotions they evoke into the language of sculpture.
2025.09.08
Articles Artist SANGHEE: Co-Created Sensibilities Through Interactive Art SANGHEE (b. 1995) has explored the concrete sensations of temporality—marked by generations or eras—and the collective narratives entangled with those sensations through interactive media activated by viewer participation. Employing VR, performance, real-time simulation, and photographic media, SANGHEE’s works engage audiences as players, prompting them to embody the given game-like rules and thereby transforming the exhibition space into a shared allegory of reality.
2025.10.20

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Cha Hyeonwook: Reconstructing Memory Through the Transformation of Korean Traditional Painting Cha Hyeonwook (b. 1987) paints fantastical landscapes where the past, present, and future, as well as fact and fiction, intertwine—drawing from fragments of memory collected through personal experience. He has developed a unique visual language by skillfully combining techniques of traditional Korean landscape painting with painterly approaches found in Western art.
2025.07.28
Activities Enhancing the Incheon Art Platform District with Public Art On December 7, the first phase of 《Your Platform, Your Park》, a new public art project by Incheon Art Platform, will be unveiled in the area surrounding the art complex.
2021.12.07

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions "Hysteria: Contemporary Realism Painting" on View Through June 25, 2023, at Ilmin Museum of Art The Ilmin Museum of Art attempts to investigate this issue of representation in contemporary art through the group exhibition of thirteen painters, Hysteria: Contemporary Realism Painting, on view from April 14 through June 25, 2023.
2023.04.24

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Between the Peripheral and the Central Searching for the unfamiliar in the most familiar places. We tend to take things for granted, even when they are solely personal.
2013.10.31
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Pre-Established Artists

Activities Announcement of the Winners of the 6th ‘Pakdongjun Prize’ 2025 The ‘2025 Pakdongjun Prize’ has been awarded to designers Jaewoo Kim and Min Kim in the fashion category, and to artist Seulgi Lee in the visual arts category. Established in honor of the late designer Park Dongjun, who passed away in 2019, the prize was created by the Pakdongjun Memorial Association (Chairman Yoon Soon-young), an organization formed by individuals across various fields to support artists annually.
2025.11.04
Exhibitions 《DYSTOPIA》, 2013.09.06 - 2013.10.19, Makeshop Art Space Park Chanmin’s exhibition 《DYSTOPIA》, organized as an invited show by Makeshop Art Space, consists of the series 'blocks', which can be understood as a comparative study of collective housing in Korea and Europe
2013.09.04

Established Artists

Activities Culture Station Seoul 284 Presents 《Our Enchanting Paradise》 — 50 Works Including “Digital Landscapes” A sense of anticipation at departure, a fleeting moment of comfort — within the historic space of Seoul Station, which has witnessed over a century of passage, an exhibition themed around “paradise” unfolds.
2025.06.12
Exhibitions 《Koo Bohnchang: The Look of Things》, 2024.11.22 - 2025.03.30, National Asian Culture Center The 2024 ACC FOCUS 《Koo Bohnchang: The Look of Things》 examines the macro- and micro-narratives of the objects Koo selected through his major series and focuses on the Korean character and Asian sentiment within them.
2024.11.20