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Artist Hur Yeonhwa’s Fluid Landscapes: On Ambiguous Boundaries and Shifting Sensibilities
Hur Yeonhwa (b. 1988) translates the landscapes encountered in everyday life through a range of media, continually exploring ways to transcend the limitations of physical space. In particular, she has sustained a long-standing interest in water, creating works that engage with rainwater, the sea, rivers, and other water-related subjects.
2025.12.29
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“The 2nd Insect Women” on View Through June 2, 2024, at SS2: Space Soda
The exhibition “The 2nd Insect Women,” featuring works by nine domestic and international artists, is on view at SS2: Space Soda until June 2. Curated by Juwon Choi, this exhibition presents sculptures, videos, paintings, and installations by female artists of various generations, including Kim yoonjoo, Mariko Mori, boma pak, shin min, Woonhae Yea, Jang pa, Soyoung Chung, Ju hyeyoung, and Jiji Kim, that express their interpretations of contemporary femininity. The exhibition explores artistic practices that counter the fear and hatred generated by the ideology of contemporary Korean society and seek a more compassionate and inclusive society.
2024.05.14
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《Gyeol》, 2013.05.24 - 2013.06.06, Gana Contemporary
Gana Art presents a solo exhibition by Kim Jipyeong (Kim Jihye, b.1976–), an artist who has gained recognition for reinterpreting traditional Joseon-era genres such as chaekgado (scholar’s shelves), flower-and-bird paintings, and landscape paintings in a contemporary manner. Kim Jipyeong combines
2013.05.22
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[Column] A Place Shaped by Art: Young In Hong’s Art of Women’s Labor
Recent works by Young In Hong, a Korean-born artist currently based in the United Kingdom, adopt anthropological themes and pluralistic genre formats. In particular, around the time she was selected as one of the four finalists for the Korea Artist Prize, jointly
2025.0609
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《ON NATURE》, 2022.05.19 – 2022.09.07, Moran Museum of Art
To commemorate its reopening, Moran Museum of Art presents 《ON NATURE》, a solo exhibition by Atta Kim, as its first exhibition of the year. Presenting Atta Kim’s artistic world at Moran Museum of Art is significant in many respects. Above all, the museum’s natural, cultural, and artistic environment appears to embody a sculptural space that resonates deeply with 《ON NATURE》.
2022.05.19
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[Critique] A Monument Built by the Intuition of ‘As if’
Let me begin with an unintended spectacle that inspired me while visiting Choi Jeonghwa’s solo exhibition 《Natural color, multiple flower show》, which filled the entirety of ‘Culture Station Seoul 284’. Outside the former Seoul Station building, beneath the shade cast by the plastic
2014
