K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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Artist Minseok Chi: Exploring the Contemporary Convergence of Korean Traditional Art, Philosophy, and Religion
Minseok Chi (b. 1990) works primarily with the traditional medium of Korean painting to explore connections between Korea’s traditional philosophy, shamanistic beliefs, and contemporary contexts. In particular, he studies past shamanistic practices that linked the human world with the realm of spirits through everyday elements such as stones, trees, and mountains. As a contemporary artist, he reflects on the role of the modern-day shaman—one who spiritually connects the diverse beings that inhabit today’s complex society.
2025.07.28
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[Critique] Art in Practice after Sewol Ferry Disaster
“It will be cloudy across the country with rains in many places in the southern regions.”Those were the words formed by the immaculate cut–up strips of metal foil neatly arranged on the window. Then the sky gradually grew darker, and it really began to rain. As the raindrops began to glide down the glass window against the sullen scenery outside, the overlapping sentence took on an uncanny meaning. I found myself reading the same sentence over and over again.
2020
Exhibitions
《Open Hands》, 2024.08.30 – 2024.09.15, Gallery Hyundai
Gallery Hyundai presents 《Open Hands》, a collaborative exhibition with Commonwealth and Council. Open Hands is a kind gesture, a generous invitation to gather works by an intergenerational group of artists:
2024.08.29
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[Critique] ‘Also This’ and ‘Also Like That’
A concise explanation of the well-known “Yoo Seungho code” might be as follows. The completion of form through the totality of letters; the reconstruction of pictorial ontology through surfaces composed of dispersed dots; a quasi–East Asian painting sensibility with an antiquated aesthetic;
2012
Exhibitions
《The Portrait with(out) Artists》, 2018.03.20 - 2018.05.20, Nam-Seoul Museum of Art
《The Portrait with(out) Artists》 is an exhibition that explores the portraits of Korean artists and the portraits of contemporary art, photographed by renowned photo artists in Korea. The parentheses '(out)' in the title of the exhibition include both the meaning of 'artist portrait' and 'portrait without artist'. Through the juxtaposition of 'with/without'
2018.03.18
