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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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Young Artists

Exhibitions 《Rabbit Inhabits the Moon : The Art of Nam June Paik in the Mirror of Time》, 2024.10.19 – 2025.03.23, MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale (Turin) The MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin is presenting the exhibition 《Rabbit Inhabits the Moon》, curated by Davide Quadrio, director of the museum, and Joanne Kim, Korean critic and curator, with Anna Musini and Francesca Filisetti. Curatorial and scholarly
2024.10.03
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

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Sunjeong Hwang: Exploring Human–Nonhuman ‘Connections’ through Technological Media Sunjeong Hwang (b. 1989) is a contemporary artist and new media composer who explores the organic interconnections between humans, nature, and technology. Grounded in multidisciplinary research and artistic experiments that expand perception and cognition, her practice synthesizes poetry, manifestos, AI, generative coding, data systems, and temporal structures.
2025.10.13
Exhibitions 《Altered Existences in Ouroboros》, 2024.05.10 – 2024.06.16, Kumho Museum of Art Leekyung Kang's solo exhibition, 《Altered Existences in Ouroboros》, will be held at Kumho Museum of Art from May 10 to June 16, 2024, as part of the second installment of the 2024 Kumho Young Artist program.
2024.05.08

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Brutal Skins》, 2018.03.14 – 2018.04.18, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul DOOSAN Gallery Seoul presents 《Brutal Skins》, a solo exhibition by Jang Pa. The exhibition displays the artist’s new works, including Fluid Neon (2016) series from the artist’s solo exhibition 《X-Gurlesque》held in DOOSAN Gallery New York in 2017, as well as a work from the 《Brutal Skins》 series produced in 2017.
2018.03.12

Late Mid-Career Artists

Activities Noblesse Collection Participates in “West Bund Art & Design” with 10 Korean Artists Noblesse Collection announced that it will participate, in collaboration with ArtNow China, in “West Bund Art & Design” (hereafter West Bund), taking place from the 10th to the 13th at the West Bund Art Center in Shanghai.
2022.11.11

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Exhibitions 《Surging and swirling beyond the ridgeline》, 2025.05.09~2025.08.12, Galerie Noir Artist Gwon Osang is a sculptor who has continually questioned conventional notions of sculpture, persistently asking what sculpture truly is, and in doing so has developed his own distinctive sculptural language. Transcending the traditional boundaries of sculpture, he pioneered an original format that fuses photography and sculpture.
2025.05.09
Activities The 20th Monthly Art Awards — Artist Choe U-Ram; Best Exhibition: 《Masterful Attention Seekers》 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan The winners of the 20th Monthly Art Awards have been announced: in the Artist category, Choe U-Ram; in the Criticism category, Jinshil Lee; and in the Exhibition category, 《Masterful Attention Seekers》 (curated by Sangho Choi)
2024.08.07
Articles [Critique] Electric Animism
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Established Artists

Articles Artist Kiwon Park Reinterprets the Essence of Space Kiwon Park (b. 1964) is an artist who has pioneered new horizons in Korean contemporary installation art by crossing genre boundaries and developing a distinctive body of work that refuses to conform to the times. His work is known for large-scale installations that reinterpret space using a variety of materials, including wire, transparent vinyl, air tubes, plastic mirrors, and oil-painted sheets.
2024.09.03
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