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
《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
Articles
Artist Chansong Kim: Capturing the Fleeting Moment When Boundaries Collapse
Chansong Kim (b. 1988) focuses on fleeting moments when the solidity of existence blurs and becomes fluid. In particular, she has long contemplated the “body,” paying close attention to instances when her once-familiar body suddenly feels unfamiliar and is perceived as a material presence.
2026.03.09
Articles
Artist Woohyun Shim: The Inner World Reflected in the Forest
Woohyun Shim (b. 1987) draws inspiration from the everyday places that surround her, particularly dense forests. From childhood to the present, the artist translates into the pictorial space the visual, auditory, and tactile sensations she has experienced while walking through the woods, along with the fragments of imagination and memory that arose in those moments—rendered on canvas without filtration.
2026.02.23
Activities
Jennie C. Jones and Gala Porras-Kim receive $250,000 Heinz Awards
The American artists Jennie C. Jones and Gala Porras-Kim were revealed as the winners of this year’s Heinz Awards for the Arts on Tuesday (17 September). The awards, bestowed by the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation since 1993, come with an unrestricted cash prize of $250,000 for each artist.
2024.09.17
Articles
[Critique] On The Unreachable Abject Territoriality
Henri Lefebvre said the physical space is to nature as mental space is to “formal abstractions,” and that social space is a place of human interaction vis-a-vis physical and mental space. If one posits that mental space or abstract space is not a completely separate concept from social space, but a structure in which groups and individuals coexist in
2021
Exhibitions
《the gradient》, 2025.03.12 – 2025.04.15, Noon Contemporary
A gradient refers to the gradual transition from one color to another—a seamless flow of hues and tones that maximizes the sensory experience of color while imparting a sense of calm. From the evening sky tinged by the setting sun to the color editing panels of digital design tools, gradients permeate our everyday visual environment.
2025.03.12
Articles
[Column] Prometheus Love Song: Atta Kim
“There can be no freedom without madness to sever the rope.” No aphorism better represents the artistic world of Atta Kim than this line from Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel Zorba the Greek. The essence of Atta Kim’s practice—seeking to dismantle religious taboos, social conventions, the limits of the body, and the boundary between the sacred and the profane—ultimately converges on the question of how human beings can acquire freedom.
2002
