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New Artists

Exhibitions 《My Early Adulthood Pilgrimage Is Wrong, As I Expected》, 2021.02.09 – 2021.02.23, Instant Roof In 2020, artist Hyun Nahm embarked on a trip to Japan, undertaking a "pilgrimage" to locations featured in the anime adaptation of the light novel My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (commonly abbreviated as OreGairu), a series he has long admired.
2021.02.07
Exhibitions 《AMAEBCH》, 2022.05.13 – 2022.07.02, Museumhead Museumhead will hold a solo exhibition 《AMAEBCH》 by the artist eobchae from May 13 to July 2, 2022. The exhibition title "AMAEBCH," pronounced as "Amaeobchae," combines the abbreviation "AMA" from "Ask Me Anything" - a content format widely circulated on social media - with "EBCH," written in a cryptocurrency-like style.
2022.05.13

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Deep in the Forking Tanks》, 2019.11.29 – 2020.02.09, Art Sonje Center For some people, perceptions of an object are stimulated in a different way, leaving them in a world that is not the reality. They experience an odd phenomenon where the cracks leading to the outside world keep narrowing and disappearing.
2019.11.25
Exhibitions Park Wunggyu and Choe Sooryeon’s Two-Person Exhibition “Bead & Orchid” on View Through January 5, 2023, at Chamber Chamber presents a two-person exhibition “Bead & Orchid” by Park Wunggyu and Choe Sooryeon, until January 5 next year.
2024.12.24

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Unstable Dimension In his seminal paper on personality psychology The Ego and the Id (1923), Sigmund Freud described three agencies of the mind that constantly compete for mastery over the mental life of a person.
2021

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《It’s difficult for me to use》, 2012.09.12-2012.09.29, Insa Art Space 한국문화예술위원회 인사미술공간(이하 인미공)에서는 2012년 신진작가 전시지원 공모사업에서 선정된 5번째 전시로, 오는 9월 12(수)일부터 9월 29일(토)까지 《It’s difficult for me to use》 유화수 개인전을 진행한다.
2012.09.11
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Essay] A Multidimensional World in the Flat Paintings of Artist Chung Suejin In South Korea, there is a meme in which some Swiss people realize that the word Switzerland (스위스) in Korean looks like a soldier holding a spear and standing between mountains.
2022.09.19
Exhibitions 《Peace to All People in the World 243.0MHz》, 2011.04.29 – 2011.06.04, BE-HIVE Are we ready to die? Are we prepared for our deaths? Could there be a rightful death for anybody? The installation art work Ready to die(2006) by artist Sanghee Song is facing death by having a woman directly looking
2011.04.29

Established Artists

Articles Artist Choi Gene Uk’s ‘Sentimental Realism’ Artist Choi Gene Uk (b. 1956) has been painting for over 40 years in his own artistic language of ‘sentimental realism', depicting the objects and environment around him, as well as Korean society as seen through his own eyes.
2024.08.13
Activities Park Chan-kyong Wins 2004 Hermes Korea Art Award for “Power Passage” Park Chan-kyong (age 39), an artist and the younger brother of film director Park Chan-wook, has won the 2004 Hermes Korea Art Award for his work Power Passage, it was announced on the 22nd.
2004.10.23