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Exhibitions
《The Squid Chooses Its Own Ink》, 2022.11.09 – 2022.11.29, Post Territory Ujeongguk
All participants in the exhibition—two poets, three visual artists, a curator, and a designer—were born in the 1990s. Those born in this decade are labeled through society and media as the “Millennial generation,” “Generation Z,” or “MZ generation.” Under these labels, our generation is categorized as digitally fluent, value-driven, and prioritizing individual happiness.
2022.11.08
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Artist Moka Lee Paints the Invisible Sides of Today's Youth
Moka Lee (b.1996) paints portraits of today's youth, capturing both their brilliance and instability. Blurring the boundaries between portraiture, still life, and landscape painting, Lee’s work embraces the underlying anxieties of youth hidden beneath the vibrant images displayed on social media.
2025.04.08
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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
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Exhibitions
《We must run WWW》, 2022.12.16 – 2023.02.05, Daejeon Museum of Art
In 2022, the Daejeon Museum of Art explored the overarching theme of the “city,” revisiting both the tangible and intangible values that shape urban life. Within cities that have grown and evolved under the banner of a “better future,” hope and despair, virtue and vice, wealth and poverty coexist—revealing that the challenges facing humanity persist under different names.
2022.12.15
Exhibitions
《Among the Trees》, 2020.03.04 – 2020.10.31, Hayward Gallery, London
Myoung Ho Lee’s ‘Tree’ series is presented in 《Among the Trees》 ‘at Hayward Gallery in London. Organized by Ralph Rugoff, the director of Hayward Gallery, this exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The show was open to the public in March, but it was temporarily suspended due to the aftermath of COVID before reopening on Aug 1st.
2020.08.12
Activities
World-Renowned Artist Atta Kim Publishes the Book〈Doing Lee O-young〉
World-renowned artist Atta Kim has published a book titled〈Doing Lee O-young〉, offering a renewed examination of the late Lee O-young, whom Kim describes as “the archetype of the creative human.” Born in 1956, Atta Kim is a Korean artist who began his career in the mid-1980s and has since established himself internationally as a photographer. The book emerged from a relationship that began seven years prior between Kim and Lee O-young.
2022.08.03
