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2016.01.01

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New Artists

Articles [Critique] Image as Structure It may be apt to begin this text with 〈All this way to meet you〉(2022). This form, composed of metal chain and plastic clay, harbors two (secret) spaces. There is an internal space where the structurally autonomous chain and materially present clay must come together.
2023.06.19
Articles Artist Mooni Perry: On 'Double-Fallen' Beings That Belong to Neither Side Mooni Perry (b. 1990), a Berlin-based artist, has been exploring various allegories and discourses shaped by sociocultural contexts. Among these, she has focused on the concept of so-called "double-fallen" beings—those who belong to neither side of binary categories such as A or B—and has visualized the lives of such marginalized individuals through research-based video works.
2025.06.02

Emerging Artists

Activities Grim Park, Nohwan Park, and Donghoon Rhee Named Finalists of the ‘2025 Kiaf HIGHLIGHTS’ Following its successful conclusion, Kiaf SEOUL announced the three final winners of the ‘2025 Kiaf HIGHLIGHTS’: Grim Park (THEO), Nohwan Park (Space Willing N Dealing), and Donghoon Rhee (Gallery SP).
2025.09.16
Exhibitions 《Human Stain》, 2021.08.27 – 2021.09.15, Space Willing N Dealing Park Noh-wan works on painting based on watercolors. Mixing Arabian rubber, it has a strong density instead of thin application unique to watercolors, and Matier is naturally made, showing a unique coloring format.
2021.08.26

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Sojung Jun's Nonlinear Narratives: On the Lives of Various Individuals at the Boundary Sojung Jun (b. 1982) has drawn inspiration from the stories of individuals she encounters, focusing on the voices of individuals hidden behind history and society and exploring how transitions in physical boundaries affect their lives.
2025.01.07

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] And When You Look, There Were Stars Every Place He’d Been “When I showed you my work before, yousaid you wanted to write something. I know the schedule’s a bit tight, but Iwanted to talk to you about it.”
2019.11.19
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Echo》, 2024.10.25 – 2024.11.20, A-Lounge A-Lounge presents Sunny Kim’s solo exhibition 《Echo》 from October 25 to November 20, 2024. The exhibition features a total of 15 works, including 10 unstretched canvas cloths directly attached to the wall and 5 canvas and pole-based works. As a 1.5-generation Korean American, Kim has previously introduced schoolgirls in uniform into her canvases as recurring motifs, reinterpreting unstable, fragmented memories from her brief childhood in Korea.
2024.10.25
Articles Artist Jaeho Jung Paints What Lies Beyond the Cityscape Jaeho Jung (b. 1971) is an artist who captures the process of urban development and decline during Korea's modernization, as driven by state initiatives, through painting.
2024.12.10

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《I am Not One》, 2018.09.04 – 2018.09.28, Space Willing N Dealing From September 4 to 28, 2018, Space Willing N Dealing presented Inhwan Oh’s solo exhibition 《I am Not One》. Defining his artistic practice as a search for cultural blind spots excluded by dominant culture,
2019.09.04
Articles Artist Kim Beom’s Artworks Oscillating Between Humor and Cynicism Kim Beom (b. 1963) humorously transforms the artist’s imagination from small everyday events into real objects. His work ranges from object works that transform everyday objects into new objects, to drawings and video works that realize the artist’s imagination, to publications in the form of monographs.
2024.07.16