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Articles Artist Yi Young Uk: A World of Uncanny Sensations Through Repetitive Imagery Yi Young Uk (b. 1991) explores how the form of repetition functions effectively in contemporary contexts. For instance, he experiments with various organic expressions that break away from rigid formal frameworks—such as creating patterns through the repetition of realistically rendered images, deconstructing forms, or translating them from two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional structures.
2025.07.14
Articles Artist Eunsi Jo: Exploring the Meaning of Existence through 'Irresistible Structures' and the Principle of 'Resemblance' Eunsi Jo (b. 1999) focuses on “irresistible structures” beyond human control—such as family, the food chain, and natural disasters—as well as on the principle of “resemblance.” Drawing on the interrelations between the individual and the community, and between the part and the whole, she presents distinctive paintings that unfold the meaning of existence through forms resembling signs, symbols, and diagrams.
2025.11.03

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions “Disturbed Pleasure” on View Through June 24, 2026, at WWNN WWNN presents the group exhibition 《Disturbed Pleasure》, on view through June 24. Human responses to unsettling scenes rarely resolve into a single emotion. Fear often becomes entangled with curiosity, while attraction and aversion coexist in a state of ambivalence. The gaze lingers, unable to withdraw easily, and judgment is momentarily suspended.
2026.06.16
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

Mid-Career Artists

Activities Project ‘WHITE RAIN’: Two Perspectives on Spatial Exploration 'WHITE RAIN' presents a collaborative work by Minae Kim and Soon-Hak Kwon. Exhibiting together in the same room, the artists individually approach diverse spatial questions within their environment.
2012.06.01

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《report》, 2017.11.10 - 2017.12.23, Gallery Purple Kim Taedong captures in his photographs the taut tension generated by the collision between hidden narratives beneath urban history and the visible images of the city. Through his lens, he presents the suspended urban spaces and figures of the metropolis at dawn (‘Day Break’, 2011–), the peculiar urban tones of Seoul’s peripheries
2017.11.08
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Pre-Established Artists

Activities Hermès Korea Art Prize Goes to Sung Hwan Kim On the 19th, artist Sung Hwan Kim (age 32) was selected as the winner of the 2007 Hermès Korea Art Prize, receiving prize money of 20 million won
2007.10.21
Exhibitions 《Walk in the Sun》, 2019.10.23 – 2019.11.30, SONGEUN From October 23 to November 30, SONGEUN presents Walk in the Sun, a solo exhibition by Sejin Kim, the Grand Prize winner of the 16th SONGEUN Art Award. Kim has focused her practice on the lives of individuals embedded within broader and smaller scales of history, rendering these narratives in a synesthetic manner through cinematic and documentary techniques, layered sound, and distinctive video installations that cross formal boundaries.
2019.10.20

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Cho Duck Hyun: Archaeology of Memory The keyword of Cho Duck Hyun’s work is “memory.” He has consistently undertaken the task of transferring old black-and-white photographs onto canvas or hanji. Using pencil, charcoal, and conté, he meticulously “reproduces” photographs as paintings. Since he mainly works with portrait photographs, standing before these images often produces a moment of astonishment: are they paintings that resemble photographs, or photographs that resemble paintings? They are what might be called “photo paintings.”
2021
Articles [Critique] Kim Beom: Do Not Think at All From portraits without pictures to predatory prey, the South Korean artist’s idionsyncratic work delights in upending established orders and power dynamics
2023