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Artist Kim Uljiro: New Organisms Cultivated in Virtual Reality
Kim Uljiro (b. 1994) presents a range of media-based works using modeling programs, including 3D animation and augmented reality (AR). Kim is interested in how materials and immaterials in both reality and virtuality operate within different environments and interfaces, exploring methods of digitally reproducing real-world objects or creating fictional materials that break the laws of physics to bring new organisms to life in the digital realm.
2025.09.22
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Artist Sungsil Ryu: Satirizing Reality through Black Comedy and Fictional Characters
Sungsil Ryu (b. 1993) employs black comedy to incisively examine capitalism and individual secular desires that dominate today’s political and social issues in Korea. Through performances, videos, and installations that adopt the format of one-person media broadcasts, the artist satirizes the entangled relationship between Korea’s unique traditional and folkloric values and its neoliberal social structures.
2025.05.26
Exhibitions
“EDIT" on View Through December 28, 2024, at Wumin Art Center
Wumin Art Center presents a special exhibition “EDIT” on view through December 28. The exhibition began with the contemplation of what form the renewal of creative meaning in the realm of painting might take in today’s world, where infinite collection, storage, editing, and reproduction of data have become possible.
2024.11.26
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Exhibitions
《Five Acts》, 2024.02.03 – 2024.05.05, Spike Island
《Five Acts》 is a new commission and solo exhibition by artist and Spike Island studio holder Young In Hong. The exhibition brings together tapestry, sculpture, video and performance to explore the bond between humans and animals through movement, sound and other non-linguistic forms of expression.
2024.02.03
Activities
[2019 Venice Biennale] Tilted Scenes – What Do You See?
On the 7th (local time), the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), announced the opening of the Korean art pop-up exhibition “Tilted Scenes – What Do You See?” at the Venice Meeting Point, Navy Officers’ Club, Arsenale, Venice.
2019.05.09
