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Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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[Critique] Are you looking at a person?
The exhibition is filled with large and small figures. It has been a long time since I've seen a work that 'only' paints figures like this. There was a time when the figure (portrait) and representation were considered taboo in painting. Looking at Miryu Yoon's realistically reproduced portraits, it feels quite courageous.
2024
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Artist Cho Hyo Ri: Illusory Virtual Spaces Beyond the Canvas
Cho Hyo Ri (b. 1992) has developed a painting practice that intersects seemingly opposing elements—reality and virtuality, three-dimensionality and flatness, materiality and illusion—within a single frame, evoking uncanny sensations and imaginative experiences. Her work connects three axes: the illusory virtual space within the painting, the viewer’s physical movement in real space, and the time in which the virtual and the real intersect. Through this, she invites the viewer to imagine movement and spatial depth beyond the stillness of the pictorial surface.
2025.06.30
Exhibitions
《The Pearl Diver》, 2021.04.16 – 2021.07.25, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (Director: Ahn Meehee) presents the special exhibition 《The Pearl Diver》 in collaboration with the 4·16 Foundation (Chairman: Kim Jeongheon). This exhibition was planned to mark the 7th anniversary of the Sewol Ferry Disaster and aims to reflect deeply on the various disasters
2021.05.18
Exhibitions
《Black, Pink Balls》, 2014.09.03 – 2014.10.04, DOOSAN Gallery
DOOSAN Gallery Seoul is pleased to present 《Black, Pink Balls》, on view from September 3, 2014 to October 4, 2014. 《Black, Pink Balls》 is the solo exhibition of Minae Kim, winner of the 2013 4th DOOSAN Artist Award. In this exhibition, the artist seeks to examine the contradiction that arises when one ceaselessly
2014.09.02
Exhibitions
《Cosmetic Girls》, 2008.11.28 – 2009.01.23, Kukje Gallery
Kukje Gallery presents the exhibition 《Cosmetic Girls》 by photographer Heinkuhn Oh.
Since his ‘Ajumma’ series in 1999, Oh has continuously explored and visualized specific social groups and classes within Korean society. In the late 1990s, his series ‘Ajumma’ captured the anxious gaze of middle-aged
2008.11.28
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
