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Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.

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3 K-Artists This Week

Artist_K-Artist Artist Sungsil Ryu: Satirizing Reality through Black Comedy and Fictional Characters

2025.05.26

Artist_K-Artist eobchae: Critical Imaginations of the Accelerated Techno-Environment in the Post-Internet Era 2025.05.26

Artist_K-Artist Artist Kim Heecheon: On Existence and Life Mediated by Digital Data 2025.05.26

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Artist_K-Artist Artist Heejoon Lee’s Abstract Paintings: Visualizing Layers of Time and Space in Urban Landscapes

2025.03.11 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist Ahnnlee Lee’s Paintings: ‘Gestures’ Formed in Relationship with Natural Objects

2025.03.11 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist Hyunsun Jeon Captures the Subtle and Ambiguous Moments of Everyday Life in Paintings

2025.03.11 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist Jaeseok Lee's Surreal Paintings: Exploring the Relationship Between Body and Object

2025.03.04 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist Woosung Lee: Portraying the Youth of Today’s Society

2025.03.04 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist GaHee Park’s Idealized Eroticism: Normalizing the Taboo

2025.03.04 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist Chu Mirim’s Painting: Capturing Digital Nostalgia and Urban Sensibility

2025.02.25 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist Heemin Chung Explores the Perception of Reality in the Digital Age

2025.02.25 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist Eunsae Lee’s Paintings: Everyday Moments That Disrupt the Rigid and Fixed

2025.02.25 N

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Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《With Night’s Nape Between Our Jaws》, 2024.08.29 – 2024.10.12, P21 P21 will present Keem Jiyoung's solo exhibition ‘With Night’s Nape Between Our Jaw’ from August 29 to October 12.

2024.08.27

Articles [Critique] The World after Emptiness – Jihyoung Han Solo Exhibition 《Fatty Folders》 (drawingRoom, 2022) Zombie Formalism, which gained traction in the early to mid-2010s, is often characterized as the convergence of past visual and auditory imagery within the “here and now.”

2022.05.28

Exhibitions 《Receivers》, 2023.09.13 – 2023.10.21, DOOSAN Gallery

2023.09.01

Exhibitions 《Cold Rub》, 2023.02.03 – 2023.03.11, PHD Group (Hong Kong)

2023.02.01

Articles [Essay] ‘Non-flat’ of Heemin Chung

2024

Articles [Review] We are drawn to what is repulsive

2023.07

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Chu Mirim’s Painting: Capturing Digital Nostalgia and Urban Sensibility Chu Mirim (b. 1982) uses the everyday environments in which contemporary people live as an interface, setting them within the contexts of the web and the city, and documenting them through paintings and video works.

2025.02.25

Articles Artist Seo Jaewoong: Exploring Cyclical Relationships Between Humans and Non-Humans Through Reused Materials

2025.04.22

Exhibitions 《Drawing in the Fog 霧中筆寫》, 2020.10.07 -2020.10.30, Sansumunhwa

2020.10.05

Exhibitions 《Masquerade》, 2022.04.13 – 2022.07.31, MMCA, Gwacheon 2022.04.10

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Established Artists

Articles [Column] Do Ho Suh’s "House Built from Memory" - A Private Space That is Both Solid and Fluid Do Ho Suh (b.1962) has continuously translated his spatial experiences across major cities such as Seoul, New York, and London into architectural installations.

2021

Articles Artist Cho Duck Hyun Revives the Faded Memories Cho Duck Hyun (b.1957) is known for his drawings in pencils that resemble black and white photographs, and installation works based on the drawings. Cho reconstructs the vestiges of the past through his artworks and focuses on the existence and fate of individuals within the larger Korean modern history.

2024.07.23