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Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.

Mid-Career:
3 K-Artists This Week

Mid-Career
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Young Artists

Exhibitions 《Fragile Constellation》, 2023.10.03 – 2023.10.15, AnnPaak Space As I imagine Yezoi Hwang clutching fragments of poetic verses, nights resurface in which she whispered “sleep well” to me. Nights when I fell asleep held by the love contained in those words. Hwang dismantles the boundary between exhaustion and repetition, and with those fragments, she connects a constellation.
2023.10.03
Exhibitions “Within and Without” on View Through June 28, 2026, at Gyeongnam Art Museum Gyeongnam Art Museum presents the exhibition 《Within and Without》 through June 28. Today, as our bodies, memories, and modes of survival have undergone rapid transformation, the forms of community that once defined us can no longer fully account for our lives. We now find ourselves in a position to reco
2026.04.21

Emerging Artists

Articles [Critique] The Moving Surface, the Details of Thought Hejum Bä’s paintings, as paintings that make us reconsider painting itself, induce hesitation—and validate that hesitation.
2017.10.03
Articles Artist Cha Hyeonwook: Reconstructing Memory Through the Transformation of Korean Traditional Painting Cha Hyeonwook (b. 1987) paints fantastical landscapes where the past, present, and future, as well as fact and fiction, intertwine—drawing from fragments of memory collected through personal experience. He has developed a unique visual language by skillfully combining techniques of traditional Korean landscape painting with painterly approaches found in Western art.
2025.07.28
Articles [Essay] The Liars
2020

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Outflux》, 2024.04.11 – 2024.04.30, YK Presents 《Outflux》 is a term that refers to leakage, an outlet, or the process and action of water and people flowing outward. At the same time, it captures the phenomenon in which subcultural painting styles flow and seep both inside and outside the boundaries of mainstream and non-mainstream art as an independent visual identity.
2024.04.10

Late Mid-Career Artists

Activities Yoon Ji Seon and Kim Taedong Selected for the 4th Ilwoo Photography Award Yoon Ji Seon (37) was selected for the publication category and Kim Taedong (34) for the exhibition category as the “Featured Artist of the Year” at the 4th Ilwoo Photography Award.
2012.12.17

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Pre-Established Artists

Activities Ilwoo Foundation Hosts Children’s Photography Workshop The Ilwoo Foundation, a public-interest foundation under the Hanjin Group, held a “Children’s Photography Workshop” for three days from the 11th to the 13th at the Korean Air Training Center in Singal, Yongin, Gyeonggi Province.
2015.08.16
Articles [Critique] The Informal Economy of Seulgi Lee After graduating from high school in February 1992, Seulgi Lee left for Paris, France, to study abroad. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2000. The following year, in April 2001, she performed a piece on the island of Corsica, supported by Palais de Tokyo.
2020

Established Artists

Activities Fifteen Artists to Participate in the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in June The Korean Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in Italy (June 12–November 6) will present a collaborative exhibition by fifteen artists, the largest number of participants in the pavilion’s history.
2005.03.30
Articles [Review] Kibong Rhee: The Presence of the Body Nullifying the Presence of the Text In Kibong Rhee’s 《the Cloudium》, damp substances such as water, foam, and vapor emerge and vanish through solid, cold, monumental structures, functioning as fluid media that permeate the viewer’s senses.
2012