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New Artists

Exhibitions “PANORAMA” on View Through October 16, 2025, at SONGEUN SONGEUN is presenting the group exhibition 《PANORAMA》 through October 16. Part of the Korea Arts Management Service’s “Korean Artists Today” initiative, the exhibition brings together eight artists and collectives whose practices expand the possibilities of contemporary art, serving as a platform for long-term international engagement. Rather than adhering to a set theme, the show highlights each artist’s distinct voice.
2025.09.02
Exhibitions 《Bulky》, 2021.09.02 – 2022.03.06, ARARIO MUSEUM In an era where immateriality has become part of everyday life, Haneyl Choi reflects on the present and future of sculpture while exploring methodologies through which queer art can take root and gain contemporaneity within the context of Korean art.
2021.09.01

Emerging Artists

Articles [Critique] The Ethics of Suffering and Survival Survival is the new ethic of our era. The hottest flames burn blue.
2021
Articles [Critique] The Process of Balancing, and Only Seeing Left - The Recognition Structure of Heejoon LEE’s Painting Consisted of Covering or Exposing His work begins with figurative representation. Yet even while painting a landscape, the artist's gaze was not directed at what lay on the other side of the landscape.
2022

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Seo Jaewoong: Exploring Cyclical Relationships Between Humans and Non-Humans Through Reused Materials Seo Jaewoong (b.1985) is an artist whose practice reflects on the principles of the world, the cycles of the ecosystem, and the relationships between the environment, humans, and non-human beings. Recognizing the cyclical interconnections between the human and non-human, he creates multifaceted narratives using materials already present in the natural and built environment, employing minimal processing to propose a vision of coexistence within the ecosystem.
2025.04.22

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles Art as “Care” by Kang Seung Lee: Rewriting the History of Queer Communities Kang Seung Lee (b. 1978), a multidisciplinary artist, challenges the mainstream history predominantly centered on the First World, white, male, and heterosexual narratives, while unveiling the stories of marginalized minorities excluded from this history.
2025.01.14
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Loneliness produced in the process of communication The most famous of all notions about man is that Man is a social animal. That is to say, it is a part of human nature to form groups and communities wherever he or she lives and they cannot live without society. Communication is an indispensible tool in building up human relationships in a society.
2015.07.01
Exhibitions 《Abstract, Poetry Weapon / Soccer Paintings by soccer ball bouncing over Crocodile River》, 2019.06.21 – 2019.07.27, Carlier Gebauer Gallery (Madrid, Spain) Kyungah Ham is the subject of a solo exhibition titled 《Abstract, Poetry Weapon / Soccer Paintings by soccer ball bouncing over Crocodile River》 at carlier | gebauer in Madrid, Spain, through July 27, 2019.
2019.06.01

Established Artists

Activities [ArtIn Visits a College of Arts] Department of Painting, College of Arts, Hansung University Young imagination. Reborn at the heart of Seoul, the Department of Painting in the College of Arts at Hansung University has earned a reputation for producing outstanding graduates despite its relatively short history. This reputation is attributed both to its central location in Seoul and to the sustained efforts of its accomplished faculty.
2011.11.28
Exhibitions 《MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2019: Park Chan-kyong – Gathering》, 2019.10.26 – 2020.02.23, MMCA, Seoul Park Chan-kyong is born in Seoul (1965) and has lived in the city. He had majored in Painting at the College of Fine Arts but after graduation, he has mainly written about art and curated exhibitions. His first solo exhibition in 1997
2019.10.25