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“URBAN CONSCIOUSNESS on View Through May 9, 2026, at WWNN
WWNN presents a group exhibition 《URBAN CONSCIOUSNESS》 on view through May 9. The city is no longer just a physical backdrop. It is a cognitive field where sensation, memory, power, technology, and desire overlap, continually reshaping a shared mental structure. It does not simply sit behind experience. It quietly organises how perception and thought take form.
2026.04.21
Exhibitions
《Black Sun》, 2018.11.01 – 2028.11.17, Onground 2
I’m at a museum in Kyoto, Japan. Currently, it is hosting an exhibition of Japan’s national treasures. I find myself unable to leave the Buddhist art section. Despite their age, the large-scale Buddhist paintings possess a solemnity and sanctity that is deeply moving.
2018.10.31
Activities
Mire Lee Wins Special Prize at the 2021 Future Generation Art Prize
Aziz Hazara (Afghanistan) is the winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2021, the sixth edition of the global art prize for artists under 35, established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009. The winner was announced by the international jury at the online award ceremony on 8 December. Aziz Hazara received a total of 100,000 USD: 60,000 USD as a cash prize, and 40,000 USD to fund their artistic practice.
2021.12.14
Activities
Artist Kim Jipyeong and Public Art Project Unveiled
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Museum Director Yoon Bum-mo) and the Government Art Bank unveiled the final video of the public art project 'Public' on the Gangnam-daero media platform 'G-LIGHT' on the 22nd.
2022.12.22
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《Evanescent》, 2016.07.20 – 2016.09.03, SongEun ArtSpace
SongEun ArtSpace regularly organizes solo exhibitions by emerging Korean artists to support and foster new creative potential. The fifth exhibition in this series, held in 2016, featured Yunchul Kim, an artist whose practice investigates the artistic potential of fluid dynamics, metamaterials, and electro-fluid mechanics. Based in Europe, Kim was the recipient of the 2016 Collide International Award organized by CERN.
2016.07.20
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Artist Chung Hyun Finds Sculptural Possibilities in Discarded Objects
Chung Hyun (b. 1956) has established a unique art world in the history of contemporary Korean sculpture by sculpting anti-figurative, existential human figures or fragmenting materials that are not commonly used in the category of sculpture to reveal their materiality.
2024.08.20
