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Young Artists

Articles Artist Chanmin Jeong: On ‘Movements’ Omitted and Marginalized in Accelerated Society Chanmin Jeong (b. 1991) visualizes "actions" that have been marginalized or omitted by efficiency-driven technological advancement and the logic of capitalism through a wide range of media, including video, photography, sculpture, and installation.
2025.08.04
Articles Artist Sun Woo’s Convergence of Digital and Painting: A Contemporary Reflection on the Mutable Body Sun Woo (b. 1994) creates works by combining digital tools with traditional painting techniques. She collects countless images floating in the digital world, transforms them in her own unique way, and translates them into paintings.
2025.03.18

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Light and Crystalline》, 2020.03.26 – 2020.04.25, ONE AND J. Gallery ONE AND J. Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition 《Light and Crystalline》, on view from March 26 (Thu) to April 25 (Sat), 2020. At times, the ancient bygone days of art prove to become a burden weighing upon the art of today. When we scrutinize art history that delineates its origin to the Paleolithic,
2020.03.24
Activities “Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art,” the First English-language Anthology Focusing on Contemporary Korean Artists from the Millennial Generation, Has Been Published Skira editore and SONGEUN announced the publication of Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art by Andy St. Louis, a survey of Korean artists from the Millennial Generation.
2024.06.10

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Re-wind》, 2018.05.11 – 2018.06.07, out-sight Shin Jungkyun has been working around issues of the military, national security, ideologies and conspiracy theories to expose anxieties that are latent in the divided Korea.
2018.05.11

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《The Place of Weeds》, 2021.12.10 – 2022.01.09, Oil Tank Culture Park T1 A solo exhibition by Yoo Hwasoo, 《The Place of Weeds》, will be held at T1 Pavilion, Oil Tank Culture Park, from December 10, 2021, to January 9, 2022. In this exhibition, the artist cultivates nameless weeds by applying smart farm technology to their ecological data.
2021.12.10
Articles [Essay] Story of Mutant 'Lion' 2024.01.04

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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Simple Thoughs: Ecology-Gender-Communism》, 2021.12.09 – 2021.12.26, Alternative Space LOOP Time’s up on the current world. But a new world is yet to arrive. The world staggers about in ill-fitting clothes, discombobulated and distressed. Since the 2008 market crash, the world has been in frantic pursuit of profit accumulation. The concomitant and catastrophic crises in labor and ecology announce the inevitable demise impelled by capitalistic exploitations of humans and the natural environment.
2021.12.08
Exhibitions 《Cosmic Joke》, 2018.08.30 – 2018.10.14, Art Space Pool Rho Jae Oon's solo exhibition 《Cosmic Joke》 is held at Art Space Pool in Segeomjeong, Jongno, Seoul from August 30 to October 14.
2018.08.28

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Others and Me: On the Impossibility of Relations and Communications For the exhibition at PLATEAU in the summer of 2014, Inhwan Oh produced the project Guard and I, a work that unveils the tension between individual identity and social norms, critically examines the institutional order of a museum, and exemplifies Oh’s persistent attempts to communicate with others on an intimate level, even if the relationship is temporary.
2015
Exhibitions 《Koo Bohnchang: The Look of Things》, 2024.11.22 - 2025.03.30, National Asian Culture Center The 2024 ACC FOCUS 《Koo Bohnchang: The Look of Things》 examines the macro- and micro-narratives of the objects Koo selected through his major series and focuses on the Korean character and Asian sentiment within them.
2024.11.20