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
Group Exhibition “Hymn of Seoul” on view through January 6, 2024, at Art Space Boan 1
The exhibition Hymn of Seoul, selected as an outstanding exhibition by the Arts Council Korea in 2023, is the final installment in reexamining modern and contemporary history through the lens of contemporary art. As part of this project, New Modern(신현대) was presented in 2021, followed by Han River(한강) in 2022. Hymn of Seoul is presented as a final report suggesting future alternatives. The exhibition title, inspired by a song released in 1969 conveying messages of hope for Seoul in the 1960s, aims to explore the symbolism and meaning of this song from an ethnological perspective, connecting it to the context of contemporary Seoul.
2023.12.27
Articles
Artist Jamyoung Koo: Translating Virtual Structures into Material Form
Jamyoung Koo (b. 1986) has been exploring how rapidly evolving technological (software) experiences influence the creation of visual art. He investigates the structures and forms of invisible virtual systems that operate and sustain the physical structures of the real world, focusing on translating them into the realm of sculpture.
2025.08.25
Exhibitions
《Description》, 2022.04.02 - 2022.04.29, Gallery SoSo
Gazing on and on and on. That is how time goes. Artists spend such a long period of time with objects. In the meantime, the objects reside in their heart. At last, their image is visualized in their work.
2022.04.01
Articles
Yunchul Kim’s Artistic World: Rooted in Fundamental Questions About Material
Yunchul Kim (b. 1970) is an electronic music composer and visual artist who has worked with installation, drawing, sound, text, and various media. Kim, who has asked fundamental questions about “material” since studying abroad in Germany, has explored the possibilities of imagination and the creation of another reality that goes beyond the realm of human experience, paying attention to its potential tendencies.
2024.10.22
Exhibitions
《natura》, 2023.09.02 – 2023.09.10, Seoul Auction
The 《natura》, one of the ‘CONNECT SEOUL’ exhibitions, shares the artists’ diverse exploration of natural materials and objects. The title ‘natura’ is the Latin origin of the English word ‘nature’, and is an exhibition about ‘materiality’, which is still one of the important discourses today.
2023.09.01
