Main image of "Kak" at the Hite Collection, Seoul. May 28, 2022 - July 17, 2022. © Hite Collection.
“Kak” is Hite Collection’s first exhibition of the year, and it will be on display until July 17, 2022. The exhibition aims to answer the question, “What does sculpture mean in contemporary art?” through the works of twelve emerging and established Korean artists.
The title of the exhibition, “Kak,” has many different meanings in Korean, including carving, corner, separate, and horn. The term refers to sculpture as an open concept containing all of the genre’s characteristics.
Postmodernism refused to adhere to a single concept, style, or form, introducing new elements to sculpture such as place, architecture, light, movement, and situation. To look back on how contemporary sculpture has developed in South Korea, the exhibition collects each participating artist’s response to the exhibition’s main question, “What does sculpture mean in contemporary art?”
The group exhibition includes works by Cha Sla, Jaiyoung Cho, Jayoung Hong, Jihyun Jung, Lee Bul, Sukyung Lee, Lim Jeongsoo, Donghee Kim, Inbai Kim, Hyun Bhin Kwon, Osang Gwon, and Do Ho Suh. It presents both early works and representative works by the twelve artists created after 1998 to examine how sculpture has changed in contemporary art in Korea; how the landscape of contemporary sculpture looks now; and how it will evolve in the future.
