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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Cut and paste》, 2022.05.06 – 2022.06.04, Gallery Stan Digital nomads are the norm in 2022. Along with the blockchain, we exist both physically and virtually. Physical distance is now easier to overcome than ever before. The boy born in 1993 has become a digital native in no time. Because of his father's influence as a programmer, reality and the digital world had already been blended seamlessly for the artist who encountered the Internet earlier than anyone else.
2022.05.01
Articles [Critique] Parodying Desire and Anxiety in the Era of One-Person Media Here stands Cherry Jang, a bizarre figure with a face covered in unnaturally white makeup and exaggerated, almost grotesque cosmetics. With a distorted voice, this young woman rambles on about nonsensical topics.
2020

Emerging Artists

Articles [Critique] Art in Practice after Sewol Ferry Disaster “It will be cloudy across the country with rains in many places in the southern regions.”Those were the words formed by the immaculate cut–up strips of metal foil neatly arranged on the window. Then the sky gradually grew darker, and it really began to rain. As the raindrops began to glide down the glass window against the sullen scenery outside, the overlapping sentence took on an uncanny meaning. I found myself reading the same sentence over and over again.
2020
Articles [Critique] The Ethics of Suffering and Survival Survival is the new ethic of our era. The hottest flames burn blue.
2021

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Overtone》, 2023.11.08-2024.01.07, Barakat Contemporary “Overtone” is the title of Sojung Jun's first solo exhibition and her new three-channel video (2023). It is a musical terminology that describes the harmonic series that collide and blend around and above a fundamental note to create a coherent musical tone.
2023.11.08

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Lee Jinju’s Psychological Landscapes: A Subjective Reality Painted with Memory and Sensation Lee Jinju (b. 1980) meticulously depicts strange and uncanny scenes, objects, and landscapes encountered in daily life, applying the coloring techniques of Eastern painting that use water as a medium.
2025.02.11
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Analysis] Beyond the Value of Mere Dwelling Jaeho Jung’s Hoehyeon-dong Memorial depicts the Hoehyeon Demonstration Apartment, and through its portrayal of the apartment building, the work allows viewers to sense the presence of the people who actually live in the apartment beyond the image itself.
2022.02.13
Articles [Critique] The Returning Body, Hyungkoo Lee The exhibition 《Korean Contemporary Artist Highlights IV – Hyungkoo Lee》 held at the Busan Museum of Art occupied the entire second-floor galleries, securing a sufficient scale to address the artist’s practice in depth.
2022.03.29

Established Artists

Articles Artist Inhwan Oh Uses the Context of Time and Space to Subvert Social Universality In 1996, Oh introduced himself as a GKM (Gay Korean Male) artist in ‘The Village Voice,’ a weekly newspaper published in New York City, and placed a personal ad for five artists, Roni Horn, Robert Gober, Nam June Paik, Haim Steinback, and Cindy Sherman.
2024.09.03
Exhibitions 《Moonlight Crowns》, 2021.07.29 – 2021.09.26, Art Sonje Center 《Moonlight Crowns》 is a new series by Yeesookyung, an artist who adopts crowns as a motif for her artwork. The series began in 2017, with five of the
2021.07.27