K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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Exhibitions
《Them so good》, 2023.11.10 – 2023.12.23, BYFOUNDRY
BYFOUNDRY presents Seoul-based artist Jihyoung Han’s solo exhibition 《Them so good》. Han creates fantastical creatures made in the context of the underground culture and the archetype of social outsiders.
2023.11.08
Articles
[Review] 《Circle, Chase, Contact》 REVIEW
There are moments when states we believe we know well—through frequent encounter or familiarity—begin to slip away. The field of art sometimes transforms what we call the “obvious” into a question imbued with doubt and fear. Particularly amid the turbulence of digital technologies, our sensory understanding of the physical and the immaterial readily falters, and hybrid subjects and situations emerge with increasing prominence through layers of overlap.
2025
Exhibitions
《Unflattening》, 2020.06.25 - 2020.11.08, MMCA
《Unflattening》 (working title) is organized for the 70th anniversary of the Korean War. This exhibition seeks to examine overlooked testimonies surrounding the war and images of the people at the time, and to understand the nature of war from various perspectives. The exhibition considers prisoners of war who chose a third country, dispatched servicemen who died in a faraway land, destruction of nature, women soldiers, and war orphans adopted to foreign countries.
2020.06.23
Articles
[Critique] Return of the Sculpture
In this period when the ready-made cars come in galleries with the title of artwork, Gwon made a supercar in bronze. Here, Gwon, an artist who had been doing simple and light works as if he wanted to laugh at the heaviness of sculpture, chose the most traditional way and conservative material that we could think about in sculpture.
2008.06
