K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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Exhibitions
《PERFORM 2019》, 2019.08.27 – 2019.08.31, Asia Culture Center, Ilmin Museum of Art
PERFORM 2019 operates an art café titled “Linkin-out.” In this café-style exhibition, visitors select and rent works of art, which are then served to their tables. This format allows audiences to closely observe and physically engage with the works, enabling a deeper form of access—or “link-in”—to the artworks.
2019.08.25
Articles
Artist Sejin Hong: Exploring the Space Between Perception and Reality
Sejin Hong (b. 1992) begins her work by examining how perception is newly constructed through technology and the environment within her own experiences. Having lost her hearing as a child and lived with a cochlear implant as a prosthetic device, she has continued to create paintings that fill the gaps of missing information between the real world and herself with new sculptures or forms.
2025.11.03
Articles
[Critique] Day break, The Strategy
Jung Jihyun is a photographer who primarily photographs collapsing buildings. In other words, his work consists of witnessing the moment a building breaks apart. Once such a scene is captured in a photograph, the question of how to present it inevitably follows. Of course, the question of how to photograph the witnessed scene must also be considered.
2013
Articles
[Critique] Hong Seung-Hye’s Moving Grid
Since 1997, Hong Seung-Hye’s ‘Organic Geometry’ has taken the computer pixel as its basic unit, revealing not only the lives of forms that repeat birth and proliferation but also the relationships among them — a family resemblance in which they are both the same and different.
2010
Exhibitions
《Concerning the "ART"》, 2020.02.25 - 2020.07.26, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art
The combination or fusion of “art” and “technology” has already been a major concern and subject of discussion since the early twentieth century. In recent years, as technology and IT have been introduced and disseminated on a comprehensive scale, the form of “art” has been changing more rapidly than ever before, raising more fundamental questions about its concept and identity.
2020.02.23
