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

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Exhibitions “Rehearsing Transformation” on View Through June 7, 2026, at Incheon Art Platform Incheon Art Platform presents a special exhibition 《Rehearsing Transformation》 on view through June 7. Rehearsing Transformation is an exhibition centered on contemporary sculpture that explores changes in the body, material, and modes of creation and production under the theme of “transformation.” Here, “transformation” refers not to a finished result, but to the process through which forms are made and continually shift into other states.
2026.04.07
Exhibitions 《Tactics for an Era》, 2025.08.28 – 2025.12.28, K&L Museum In our contemporary era, we are witnessing rapid and multifaceted transformations in daily life due to the unprecedented development of artificial intelligence and digital technologies. The increasingly advanced digital
2025.08.28

Emerging Artists

Articles [Critique] Innocent Anxiety, Unfeigned Allure Comprising a total of nine pieces, the series ‘Dummy’ originated from the Buddhist painting known as Nine Pieces of the Dummy (Nine Stages of a Decaying Corpse).
2019
Articles Artist Shinyoung Park: Reconstructions of Sensory Experience in Unfamiliar Environments Shinyoung Park (b. 1987) takes travel and movement into unfamiliar places as the point of departure for her practice, reconstructing the sociocultural characteristics encountered there as subjective records. She primarily examines the boundaries between humans and animals, civilization and nature, and reality and imagination, inviting viewers to reframe events unfolding beyond the time and space in which each of us stands.
2026.02.23

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Monochrome on display》, 2017.09.21 - 2017.10.20, OCI Museum of Art 1. Since Luigi Russolo first began addressing sound in modern art through the Futurist manifesto The Art of Noise (1913), “sound” has existed as another mode of expression through which
2017.09.19

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Orange Sleep》, 2023.01.05 – 2023.02.12, ONE AND J. Gallery When done alone it would be just daily routine whereas with two people, it becomes an event. Sleep is the state required for survival, a part of normal life, an act bearing a sexual image.
2023.01.01

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Activities Photographer Myoung Ho Lee Appointed as Public Relations Ambassador of the Cultural Heritage Administration’s Palaces and Royal Tombs Center The Cultural Heritage Administration’s Palaces and Royal Tombs Center announced on the 18th that photographer Myoung Ho Lee (48) has been appointed as its new public relations ambassador.
2023.08.18
Exhibitions 《Okul [School]_What Do People Learn》, 2021.11.04 – 2021.12.11, PIBI Gallery From November 4th to December 11th, PIBI Gallery hosts Yang Ah Ham’s solo exhibition titled 《Okul [School]_What Do People Learn》. Ham raises questions about various problems inherent in national and social
2021.11.04

Established Artists

Activities The 21st Monthly Art Awards At the 21st Monthly Art Awards ceremony held at the Sungkok Art Museum on December 1, 2025, Monthly Art (Representative: Lee Ki-young) honored Kim Beom in the Artist category, Lev AAN in the Criticism category, and ten outstanding exhibitions including the Best Exhibition award for Art Sonje Center’s 《Adrián Villar Rojas: The Language of the Enemy》 (2025).
2025.12.01
Exhibitions 《Cosmetic Girls》, 2008.11.28 – 2009.01.23, Kukje Gallery Kukje Gallery presents the exhibition 《Cosmetic Girls》 by photographer Heinkuhn Oh. Since his ‘Ajumma’ series in 1999, Oh has continuously explored and visualized specific social groups and classes within Korean society. In the late 1990s, his series ‘Ajumma’ captured the anxious gaze of middle-aged
2008.11.28