K-Artists
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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Articles
Artist Sang A Han: On the Soft Yet Sharp Mind and Existence
Sang A Han (b. 1987) begins her work from memories of everyday experiences and the emotions that arise from them. Grounded in the expressive methods of traditional East Asian painting, her practice unfolds the subtle and complex emotions and memories that cannot be reduced to a single word, articulating them through a metaphorical and symbolic visual language shaped by the many changes she experiences as an artist, a woman, and an individual.
2025.09.08
Articles
Artist Woongcheol Lee: Visualizing Invisible Senses Beyond the Human-Centered World
Woongcheol Lee (b. 1983) views “accident” not simply as an event, but as a catalyst for a shift in perception. Through a range of media, he explores points at which the boundaries between reality and virtuality, life and non-life, the visible and the invisible, and the artificial and the natural become blurred, seeking to recontextualize specific events.
2026.08.24
Exhibitions
《The Wet Psyche》, 2008.08.29 - 2008.09.29, Kukje Gallery
Kukje Gallery presents the fourth solo exhibition of Kibong Rhee (b. 1957). Since receiving the Grand Prize at the Grand Art Exhibition of Korea in 1986, Rhee has maintained an active practice and established himself as a leading mid-career artist in Korea.
2008.08.27
Exhibitions
《A Day for Counting Stars: The Story of You and Me》, 2018.12.27 – 2019.08.25, MMCA Cheongju
We are all descendants of stars. The basic elements that make up the human body—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and calcium—are the same basic elements that make up the earth and the universe. This latest scientific analysis is in line with the religious belief that man was created out of clay and god’s breath, born from dust to return to dust. In the end, science and religion both denote that humans and all other living things originate from star dust.
2018.12.26
