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New Artists

Articles Artist Eugene Jung’s Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes Reflecting Reality Eugene Jung (b.1995) creates post-apocalyptic environments through sculpture and installation that respond to contemporary catastrophes. The desolate landscapes crafted by the artist are at times infused with a cartoon-like worldview.
2025.05.01
Exhibitions 《In a Comfortable World》, 2018.05.04 – 2018.05.13, Rainbow Cube Gallery In reality, even when we are simply standing still, countless images, sounds, smells, tactile sensations, and other indefinable forms of information pour in simultaneously. Yet we are not overwhelmed by this bombardment of sensations. This is because, although we see, hear, smell, touch, and feel, we do
2018.05.03

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Miki Kim: On the Intersection of Body, Emotion, and Image Miki Kim (b. 1987) explores the point where the body, emotion, and image intersect through delicate lines and evocative spaces of emptiness. Spanning tattooing—inscribing images onto the skin—digital drawing, as well as sculptural and installation works, her practice unfolds freely across various forms without being confined to a single framework.
2026.03.30
Exhibitions 《Double Feature》, 2023.09.14 – 2023.12.17, Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin (Berlin, Düsseldorf) Beginning from September 2023, the Julia Stoschek Foundation introduces a new series of solo presentations by emerging artists called DOUBLE FEATURE, which will take place across JSF Berlin and Düsseldorf simultaneously.
2023.09.10

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist An Gayoung: Constructing Alternative Narratives of Unequal Realities Through Game Engines An Gayoung (b. 1985) has been creating works that combine elements of art and gaming, focusing on the cultures that emerge at the boundary between on- and offline worlds and the real-world issues they generate. While her practice is rooted in media art that employs the interactive nature of games, her core inquiry centers on the various forms of inequality embedded in digital environments—particularly the experiences of women within them—and the search for alternatives.
2025.06.16

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《New Mutant》, 2020.08.28 - 2020.09.13, Gana Art Center Gana Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Ji Yongho(b. 1978 -) introducing the “New Mutant” series. Ji is mostly known for his ‘Mutant’ series of sculptures using waste tires. For the exhibition, he chose various media such as bronze, aluminum, and 3D printing based on computer technology
2020.08.26
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《The 56th Venice Biennale》, 2015.05.06 – 2015.11.22, Giardini Park, Venice The Arts Council Korea (Chairman: Kwon Young-bin) opened the Korean Pavilion exhibition at the 56th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition—one of the most prestigious international art biennales in the world—on May 6, 2015 in Venice.
2015.05.08
Articles [Critique] Life Revealed Through Images, The Identity That Gazes Upon Them Hong Sungchul introduces multimedia art as a narrative medium through which to address the essence of life and the origins of art. The moving images produced through such technological media
2002

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《You Are My Sunshine: Korean Contemporary Art 1960-2004》, 2004.10.15 - 2004.12.05, Total Museum of Contemporary Art The past forty-five years mark a period during which South Korea, passing through a long and dark tunnel, entered the central stage of world history for the first time and acquired contemporaneity.
2004.10.13
Articles [Critique] Type Called ‘Middlemen’: Obscure Anxiety and Minute Rupture When Walter Benjamin announced a new experience in visual perception to be brought by the eye of a camera with high expectation in the early 20th century, photography had already been enthusiastically capturing everything in existence for many years. While many focused on the
2012