K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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Exhibitions
《deep sea fish》, 2025.01.25 – 2025.04.16, Diesel Art Gallery (Tokyo)
DIESEL ART GALLERY will host "deep sea fish," the first solo exhibition in Japan by Seoul-based artist Ahn Taewon, from January 25 (Saturday) to April 16 (Wednesday), 2025. The exhibition will be curated by the gallery CON_ based in Bakurocho, Nihonbashi.
2025.01.23
Exhibitions
《Clean Room, Reeling Room》, 2025.12.13 – 2026.02.01, MOCA Taipei
Production of innovative technology requires not only extensive labor but also vast material inputs. In the process, harmful substances, many of which cause serious physical damage and illness to workers, are generated. Yet these health issues are often silenced, dismissed as individual misfortunes, or obscured by layers of gender and social inequality.
2025.12.12
Articles
Artist Yaloo: Exploring the Poetic Possibilities of Digital Media
Yaloo (b. 1987) has continuously explored the poetic possibilities of digital media through digital moving images, including projection-mapped sculptures, media façades, and VR. Her work draws on a wide range of timeless cultural elements—her own identity, myths, folktales, science and technology, and K-culture—to construct poetic narratives that unfold immersively through technological media.
2025.10.20
Exhibitions
《Tactics》, 2021.02.25 - 2021.06.03, Nam June Paik Art Center
Humankind is going through an unprecedented experience because of the pandemic. It began in 2020 when the whole people felt that they could freely go around the globe as if it were their own home, which might be the peak of ‘globalization.’
2021.02.23
Exhibitions
MMCA Collection: 《Korean Contemporary Art》, 2025.05.01 – 2026.05.03, MMCA Seoul
This exhibition is the first permanent exhibition since the opening of the Seoul branch of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) in 2013. Since beginning its acquisition activities with its original opening in 1969, MMCA has collected and researched a body of significant artwork and archival materials with a focus on art history and contemporary art
2025.04.01
Articles
[Critique] Anxiety and dynamics of incompleteness
Hong, Sungchul has closely watched ‘anxiety’ in the underlying ground of human life, which was resulted from innate incompleteness. He regards this anxiety one of living conditions as well as a traction engine for our dynamic life. His keen interest in anxiety was expressed generally and consistently through various media and shapes such as strings, images, performances and recent LCD unit works.
2016.05.20
