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Artist Sungsil Ryu: Satirizing Reality through Black Comedy and Fictional Characters
Sungsil Ryu (b. 1993) employs black comedy to incisively examine capitalism and individual secular desires that dominate today’s political and social issues in Korea. Through performances, videos, and installations that adopt the format of one-person media broadcasts, the artist satirizes the entangled relationship between Korea’s unique traditional and folkloric values and its neoliberal social structures.
2025.05.26
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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
Exhibitions
《3650 Storage - Interview》, 2022.12.29 - 2023.04.16, Seokpajeong Seoul Museum
Over the past 3,650 days—ten full years—what has wholly filled the Seoul Museum of Art has been the footsteps of countless artists who have passed through its spaces. During this time, the museum has woven together the warp of artists and the weft of viewers, creating rich and meaningful aesthetic experiences.
2022.12.29
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Exhibitions
《Miss Lamella》, 2019.11.14 - 2019.11.30, CR Collective
CR Collective presents Yoo Seungho’s solo exhibition 《Miss Lamella》 from November 14 to November 30. Yoo Seungho’s doodles are the result of a conscious unconscious process, in which the hand moves while consciousness gradually intervenes. Certain sections of the large-scale painting series ‘Miss Lamella’
2019.11.12
