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

Mid-Career:
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Young Artists

Articles [Critique] The World after Emptiness – Jihyoung Han Solo Exhibition 《Fatty Folders》 (drawingRoom, 2022) Zombie Formalism, which gained traction in the early to mid-2010s, is often characterized as the convergence of past visual and auditory imagery within the “here and now.”
2022.05.28
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

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions “Folding Acts” on View Through May 30, 2026, at Coreana Museum of Art Coreana Museum of Art presents a special exhibition 《Folding Acts》, originating from the inquiry of ‘Museum as Laboratory,’ the thematic focus of the museum’s multidisciplinary arts program, *c-lab 9.0, on view through May 30.
2026.04.21
Exhibitions 《Dui Jip Ki》, 2023.07.14 – 2023.08.26 (Berlin); 2023.07.07 – 2023.08.19 (Seoul), Esther Schipper (Berlin, Seoul) Esther Schipper is pleased to announce 《Dui Jip Ki》, a two-part exhibition of contemporary Korean art presented this summer at our Berlin and Seoul galleries. Curated in close cooperation with Esther Schipper, Seoul, 《Dui Jip Ki》 brings together artists across five generations who work in a variety of media.
2023.07.05

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Ruins》, 2015.05.04 – 2015.04.04, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul DOOSAN Gallery Seoul presents 《폐허》 from March 4th to April 4th, 2015. A solo exhibition by Sojung Jun who was an artist-in-residence at DOOSAN Residency New York in second half of 2014, Ruins displays 4 works as an extension of Jun’s video pieces about master practitioners of everyday life which she has been working on since 2009.
2015.05.02

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Somewhere Underneath》, 2014.12.04 – 2014.01.31, HADA Contemporary (London) HADA Contemparary presents the first UK solo exhibition by Ham Jin (b.1978). He has been best known for his dark and whimsical sculptures, which often incorporated banal objects transforming them into subjects of his wild creativity. This exhibition will bring all new works by the artist that clearly denotes his progression into abstraction that embody the boundless fragile unconsciousness and its beyond.
2014.12.01

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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Yongbaek Lee, Representative Artist of Korea at the 2011 Venice Biennale This is media artist Yongbaek Lee’s response upon being selected as Korea’s representative for the 54th Venice Biennale, to be held in June 2011. Participating as the national representative in the world’s most prestigious art event, held every two years, would be an exhilarating occasion for anyone, yet his expression remained calm and composed.
2011.02
Articles [Critique] Between Digital and Analog Rectangular LCD units about the size of a fingertip repeatedly flicker by responding to light energy through their own solar-collecting elements. Each unit blinks with a slight time lag whenever light reaches it, and
2007

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《MMCA HYUNDAI MOTOR SERIES 2015: AHN KYUCHUL - Invisible Land of Love》, 2015.09.15. - 2016.05.22, MMCA Seoul 《MMCA HYUNDAI MOTOR SERIES 2015》 is the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea’s 10-year long project inaugurated in 2014 in collaboration with Hyundai Motor Company to support solo exhibitions of distinguished Korean artists.
2015.09.13
Exhibitions 《IMA Picks 2021 - Dear My Hate-Angel-God》, 2021.11.19 – 2022.02.06, Ilmin Museum of Art Ilmin Museum of Art’s “IMA Picks” is a project exhibition that selects and showcases three notable artists in the current art scene, either from Korea or abroad, to explore the different ways in which the artists interpret today’s world.
2021.11.10