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 Gijeong Goo: Exploring the Human-Machine-Nature Relationship Between Reality and Virtuality
Gijeong Goo (b. 1990) has been working on recreating real-life landscapes as digital images based on 3D rendering, and translating them into physical spaces through video and installation. Encompassing multilayered experiments with media, Goo's practice navigates the boundaries between reality and virtuality, exploring the relationships among humans, machines, and nature.
2025.05.19
Exhibitions
《A Sunday Outing》, 2025.05.09 – 2025.06.15, Kumho Museum of Art
Artist Nayoung Kang focuses on “care work” and the relationships formed within it, delicately capturing the structures of life that surround it, along with the physical and emotional tensions it entails, through works in various media.
2025.05.08
Articles
[Critique] The Sides We Cannot See Do Exist
“Can we only wish?” Is there anything that people can do as they see, hear about, and experience in close or personal ways the endless crises, frustrations, and suffering happening around them?
2024
Exhibitions
《The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989》, 2023.10.21 – 2024.02.11, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Korean contemporary artists Suki Seokyeong Kang, Hayoun Kwon, Do Ho Suh, Michael Joo, Byron Kim, Park Chan-kyong, Yeondoo Jung, and Kyungah Ham are participating in the group exhibition 《The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989》 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exhibition marks the first large-scale Korean contemporary art show in the United States since 2009, presenting diverse works by 28 artists that encapsulate their collective memory of the significant societal changes occurred during the late 1980s in Korea.
2023.10.20
Articles
[Critique] After the Show, Where Do They Go?
Artworks are not people. They are not alive in any conventional sense of the word. Yet, they are not inert either. Through the work of the artist, the original base materials are transformed into something with meaning and coherence
2019
Exhibitions
《33 Sungkok Awardees》, 2008.04.11 - 2008.05.25, Sungkok Art Museum
Funded as a tribute to the memory of the late Sungkon Kim, also known by his pen-name Sungkok, the Sungkok Art Museum has launched a special project for young emerging Korean artists, ‘Artists of Tomorrow’ since 1998. In honor of his lifelong commitment to cultivating young Korean talents, The exhibition 《Awardees, 1998-2007》 seeks to echo both the traditions and future-oriented ideals of Korean modern art.
2008.04.09
