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“DOOSAN ART LAB Exhibition 2025” on View Through March 8, 2025, at DOOSAN Gallery
DOOSAN Art Center’s DOOSAN Gallery is holding its first exhibition of 2025, 《DOOSAN ART LAB Exhibition 2025》, on view through March 8. The DOOSAN ART LAB program has been run by DOOSAN Art Center since 2010 as a way of discovering and supporting young practitioners of the visual and performing arts.
2025.01.28
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Artist Joo Hyeongjoon: Reinterpreting Reality Reflected in the Unconscious through East Asian Painting
Joo Hyeongjoon (b. 1988) has developed a body of work that unfolds the world of the unconscious as it appears in dreams, grounded in the traditional materials of paper, brush, and ink. Reinterpreting Eastern philosophy and traditional media through a contemporary lens, the artist continuously experiments with ways of recording “emptiness” (yeobaek) and imagined narratives as perceived from the perspective of modern life.
2025.11.17
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Artist Park Noh-wan’s Stained Paintings: On Things That Are Neither This Nor That
Park Noh-wan (b. 1987) focuses on subjects that are neither particularly beautiful nor harmonious in form—things that are often overlooked or deemed unimportant, such as outdated advertisements or discarded objects crumpled on the roadside. The artist translates these strangely captivating scenes onto canvas, not by merely depicting their forms, but by capturing the unique atmosphere and emotions they evoke.
2025.04.01
Exhibitions
《Paint hoe繪, Paint huà畫》, 2023.04.05 – 2023.04.30, Gallery Chosun
The title of the exhibition, 《Paint hoe繪, Paint huà畫》 implies Choe Sooryeon’s method of painting. Her oil paintings portray traditional and classical images of Northeast Asia, reimagined in a modern context; tracing classic ghost stories, oriental painting books, and prophets.
2023.04.03
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Korean Artist Duo MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho Continue to Explore the Role of Art in Society
Media artist duo MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho, who have consistently garnered attention in the Korean and international art worlds, have been exploring fundamental questions about the role of art and the power relations surrounding art in the face of humanity’s crises and rapidly changing world, and have expressed problematic issues such as the contradictions of capitalism, historical tragedies, and climate change through videos, installations, archives, multidisciplinary research and workshops, and publications.
2024.07.09
Exhibitions
《HYUNDAI 50 Part II》, 2020.06.12 – 2020.07.19, Gallery Hyundai
Part two of Gallery Hyundai’s 50th anniversary exhibition, 《HYUNDAI 50》, highlighting the works by artists whom the gallery has started working with from the mid-1980s to the present. Over seventy works by thirteen foreign artists and sixteen Korean artists who share a part of the gallery’s history are presented
2020.06.10
