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New Artists

Articles Artist Eugene Jung’s Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes Reflecting Reality Eugene Jung (b.1995) creates post-apocalyptic environments through sculpture and installation that respond to contemporary catastrophes. The desolate landscapes crafted by the artist are at times infused with a cartoon-like worldview.
2025.05.01
Exhibitions 《The Paused Moment》, 2024.03.01 – 2024.04.28, PARKSEOBO FOUNDATION (PSBF) 잘 닦여져 반사광마저 비치는 도자기 인형의 피부, 그 옆에 마찬가지로 반질반질하게 윤이 나는 푸른색 토끼 모양 공예품을 보고 있으면 단단하고 서늘한 촉감까지도 전달된다.
2024.02.27

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Woo Hannah: Ma Moitié》, 2020.09.23 – 2020.10.27, SongEun Artcube SongEun Artcube presents the fourth solo exhibition of Hannah Woo, an artist who has worked extensively with fabric as her primary material in various installation projects. This exhibition foregrounds “Designer Hannah Woo” as a central identity.
2020.09.20
Articles Artist Hyojoo Jang: On Tactility in the Digital Age Hyojoo Jang (b. 1988) explores the sensory differences felt between the inside and outside of boundaries through the physical form of sculpture. Focusing on the gap between the fictitious entities of the digital age and tangible reality, she visualizes a sense of tactility that is “visible yet untouchable” through the conjunction and juxtaposition of diverse materials.
2025.08.04

Mid-Career Artists

Articles The Thin and Infinite Pictorial World of Noh Sangho: Reassembling Floating Images in the Online Realm Noh Sangho (b. 1986) has built a distinctive artistic practice centered on paintings that draw from the countless images drifting across the internet, including social media. The artist collects fragments of images encountered in daily life, traces them using carbon paper, and reconstructs them into new compositions based on his unique imagination and sensibility.
2025.11.24

Late Mid-Career Artists

Activities Suki Seokyeong Kang wins the Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel in Switzerland Suki Seokyeong Kang (41) has been selected as one of the recipients of the Baloise Art Prize, an award presented by the prestigious international art fair Art Basel in Switzerland.
2018.06.13
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions “PANORAMA” on View Through October 16, 2025, at SONGEUN SONGEUN is presenting the group exhibition 《PANORAMA》 through October 16. Part of the Korea Arts Management Service’s “Korean Artists Today” initiative, the exhibition brings together eight artists and collectives whose practices expand the possibilities of contemporary art, serving as a platform for long-term international engagement. Rather than adhering to a set theme, the show highlights each artist’s distinct voice.
2025.09.02
Articles [Critique] Chronology of Bad Blood: A Passage of Being Called or Vanishing Media artist Sejin Kim moves between grand narratives and microscopic worlds. She captures the intimate and vulnerable moments of individuals living passively within the deepening conditions of contemporary neoliberal society. Her work reflects a consciousness of the individual’s daily life, concealed beneath the grave historical realities of the public sphere. The images Kim captures in video intertwine cinematic expression with the objective gaze of documentary. Through her distinctive video language and screening methods, she delivers her message with striking clarity. This essay examines the artistic world of Sejin Kim.
2017

Established Artists

Activities Kiwon Park Named Artist of the Year by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Installation artist Kiwon Park (45) has been selected as the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Artist of the Year for 2010. Having participated as a Korean Pavilion artist in the 2005 Venice Biennale, Park is known for installation works that accept the inherent
2010.01.14
Activities Heinkuhn Oh selected as recipient of the 10th Dong Gang Photography Award Heinkuhn Oh has been selected the recipient of the 10th Dong Gang Photography Award. Dong Gang Photography Award is presented annually by Dong Gang Museum of Photography to an artist who has made note-worthy contribution to the development of photography in Korea and has had extensive activity in the past ye
2011.07.01