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Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Eunsae Lee’s Paintings: Everyday Moments That Disrupt the Rigid and Fixed Eunsae Lee (b. 1987) captures moments of unstable change encountered through the internet, media, and everyday life. She expresses subtle undercurrents flowing through ordinary scenes in her paintings or collects various frustrations from daily life along with the rebellious imaginations they provoke, recording them as images.
2025.02.25
Articles [Review] Young-jun Tak – Atelier Hermès solo exhibition Young-jun Tak’s first solo show in his native Seoul, “Love Your Clean Feet on Thursday,” was a study in duality. Two single-channel videos projected on perpendicular walls framed the gallery of Atelier Hermès, punctuated by two adjacent sculptural works that both opened and closed the show.
2024

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Moving between objects and space: the responsive sculpture of Minae Kim Sculpture has recently been making a comeback in Korean art, following painting. A growing number of artists are calling themselves sculptors, researching new sculpture techniques and working hard to produce powerful sculpture works.
2020
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Established Artists

Articles Artist Kibong Rhee Paints a World Beyond the ‘Layer’ Known for his fog landscape paintings, Kibong Rhee (b. 1957) is one of Korea's leading mid-career artists who has been working in-depth with installations and paintings since the 1980s. He has been primarily interested in the structure and flow that constitute the essence of people, objects, and the world, and the various meanings they derive.
2024.08.06
Articles [Critique] Reflections on a Korean Urn, A Meditation on the work of Yeesookyung John Keats’s enigmatic, much pondered, and often challenged words about the virtues of ‘beauty’ and ‘truth’ as they are embodied in art – in this case an imaginary classical Greek vase – point to a fundamental dichotomy that has driven the work of Yeesookyung from the outset.
2012