K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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3 K-Artists This Week
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Exhibitions
《Will you Marry Me?》, 2025.02.15 – 2025.03.23, Subtitled NYC (New York)
Shapes that once suggested familiar forms are cut, flattened, and stitched, only to reemerge as something unexpected—uncanny, even: a dog’s muzzle, a gummy bear, or a face caught in either a smile or a gasp. In her latest series, Unpleasant Episodes, Kai Oh weaves together humor, defiance, and—crucially—her own breasts and nipples.
2025.02.10
Exhibitions
《Facade in Facade》, 2021.07.22 – 2021.08.14, OCI Museum of Art
OCI Museum of Art (Director: Ji-hyun Lee) presents the solo exhibition 《Facade in Facade》 by emerging artist Hwang Wonhae, on view from July 21 to August 14, 2021, in the museum’s first-floor gallery. The exhibition is part of the 2021 OCI YOUNG CREATIVES program, an annual initiative supporting six selected young Korean artists through a series of consecutive solo exhibitions.
2021.07.20
Exhibitions
“The Act of Loving” on View Through September 19, 2026, at Primary Practice
Primary Practice presents 《The Act of Loving》, a group exhibition featuring works by AN Chorong, LEE Kang Seung, and NOH Songhee, on view through September 19. 《The Act of Loving》 imagines a shared narrative through private archives. In this exhibition, collecting is conceived as a form of social practice—one that gives rise to solidarity with others and fosters relationships grounded in ethics.
2026.07.28
Articles
Artist Hyungkoo Lee on ‘Body’ as an Endless Artistic Possibility
Hyungkoo Lee (b. 1969) has been producing a diverse body of work on the theme of the ‘body’ for the past 20 years. The artist has been experimenting with the transformation, distortion, and expansion of the body by mobilizing scientific fields such as anatomy along with his artistic imagination.
2024.09.10
Articles
[Critique] Songs of Individuals¹
siren eun young jung has recalled to the present a rapidly disappearing Korean traditional theater performance genre that is now nearly forgotten, sought to pinpoint the genre’s position within the lineage of contemporary art,
2018
Exhibitions
“Objects in Oscillation” on View Through July 19, 2026, at Kukje Gallery
Kukje Gallery presents 《Objects in Oscillation》, a group exhibition of contemporary Korean photographers, in the gallery’s K1 and K2 spaces through July 19. Focusing on the genre of still life, the exhibition brings together nine artists, whose works interrogate the photographic medium’s intrinsic modes of expression while questioning how one encounters and relates to objects.
2026.06.16
