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Exhibitions
“Nostalgics on realities” on View Through March 9, 2024, at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul
Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul presents the group exhibition “Nostalgics on realities” through March 9. Curated by Kim Sung woo, “Nostalgics on realities” presents new and recent work by six contemporary artists: Jesse Chun, Eugene Jung, Yongju Kwon, Minsun, Hwayeon Nam and Yooyun Yang. Following the three-person show “Myths of Our Time” in 2023, this group exhibition is the second at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul to focus solely on Korean artists, highlighting their diverse contributions to Korea’s thriving contemporary art scene.
2024.01.31
Exhibitions
"off-site" on View Through October 8, 2023, at Art Sonje Center
Art Sonje Center will present off-site, an exhibition by six artists, from August 18 to October 7. off-site utilizes spaces such as the museum’s theater, backstage area, garden, stairways, and mechanical rooms to build a new sense of space and artworks.
2023.08.16
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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
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Artist Nosik Lim: Paintings Traces of Sensations Collected Through Bodily Experience
Nosik Lim (b. 1989) creates paintings that translate moments perceived, felt, and captured through the body onto the canvas. The artist states that his geographical background has had the greatest influence on his practice. His paintings begin with a process of retracing everyday spaces tied to personal memories, including places from his childhood.
2025.07.07
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[Critique] YANG Junguk : Life’s Storyteller
Artist, installation artist and kinetic artist YANG Junguk. These are a few titles referring to the artist. Since, while not always so, the things he makes often move, take up space in galleries in irregular ways, and in any case appear in the forms of physical sculpture, the description is actually not that false.
2020.09.07
Exhibitions
《The Place of Weeds》, 2021.12.10 – 2022.01.09, Oil Tank Culture Park T1
A solo exhibition by Yoo Hwasoo, 《The Place of Weeds》, will be held at T1 Pavilion, Oil Tank Culture Park, from December 10, 2021, to January 9, 2022. In this exhibition, the artist cultivates nameless weeds by applying smart farm technology to their ecological data.
2021.12.10
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Activities
Announcement of the Winners of the 2013 Korea Public Design Awards
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Yoo Jinryong, hereafter MCST) has announced the winners of the Grand Prize of the “2013 Korea Public Design Awards.” In the Best Practices category, the “Jeongseon Samtan Art Mine Public Design Regional Regeneration Project” was selected, while in the Design Idea category, the “Easy-to-put” automatic foldable shelf for public restrooms received the top honor.
2013.09.17
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MMCA Artist of the Year… Inhwan Oh’s ‘On My Way to Blind Spots’
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) has selected artist Inhwan Oh (50) as the winner of the “Artist of the Year 2015.” Oh received the award for his project Finding Blind Spots, which expands the notion of blind spots from their spatial meaning into social and cultural contexts.
2015.10.06
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Artist Cho Duck Hyun Revives the Faded Memories
Cho Duck Hyun (b.1957) is known for his drawings in pencils that resemble black and white photographs, and installation works based on the drawings. Cho reconstructs the vestiges of the past through his artworks and focuses on the existence and fate of individuals within the larger Korean modern history.
2024.07.23
