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New Artists

Exhibitions "Spin - off" on View Through September 8, 2023, at ELEPHANTSPACE ELEPHANTSPACE is pleased to present Spin-off, an exhibition by Song Min Jung, Oh Joo Young, and CO/EX (Kim Ju Won, An Cho Rong) from August 18 to September 8.
2023.08.30
Exhibitions 《Burrowing at the Bottom of a Rainbow》, 2021.07.23 – 2021.10 Atelier Hermès presents 《Burrowing at the Bottom of a Rainbow》, a solo exhibition by emerging sculptor Hyun Nahm (b. 1990), on view from July 23 to October 3, 2021.
2021.07.20

Emerging Artists

Articles [Critique] Kim Heecheon - Living amid Moving Image When more than a century ago, Thomas Edison invented the motion picture camera and its viewer, he thought of moving images as nothing more than some insignificant flickering images, which briefly appear through a tiny hole in a coin-operated machine. But with technology transitioning from film to digital media, there has been a bewildering evolution in moving images.
2020.01.21
Exhibitions “The 23rd SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition” on view through February 24, 2024, at SONGEUN The SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition is a showcase of the latest works by leading emerging artists in contemporary Korean art in one place. This exhibition features the diversity of contemporary Korean art through the paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, and sound works of 20 young artists born between 1979 and 1990.
2023.12.13

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist IM Youngzoo Intersects the Worlds of Superstition and Rationality IM Youngzoo (b.1982) is an artist who explores themes of superstition and rationality within Korean society through mediums such as video, installation, performance, and books.
2025.01.07

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Traversing, dance and conversation ‘One night with someone’s t-shirt in my bed’ (2006-2007), photo series by Youngjoo Cho, a record of her own expressionless face and stiff body right from the bed, has as interesting content as the imagination that the title enables.
2018
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Artist Yoon Young Park Reconstructs Real-life Events Through Artistic Imagination Yoon Young Park (b. 1968), who majored in Korean painting, is well-known for her works that directly collect and trace real-life events, reconstructing them in her own unique way using elements of Korean painting.
2024.10.01
Articles [Critique] Korea’s Promising 30s–40s Artists ⑤: Installation Artist Yoon Young Park The Robert Pickton case—the Vancouver, Canada pig farmer who, over 30 years, killed 69 women and used their remains as pig feed; the Virginia Tech shooting by Cho Seung-hui; the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; the Exxon Valdez oil spill….
2009.03.05

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Moonlight Crowns》, 2021.07.29 – 2021.09.26, Art Sonje Center 《Moonlight Crowns》 is a new series by Yeesookyung, an artist who adopts crowns as a motif for her artwork. The series began in 2017, with five of the
2021.07.27
Exhibitions 《Dialogue》, 2022.9.6 - 2022.12.25, Seoul Botanic Park Seoul Botanic Park presents Kiwon Park’s solo exhibition 《Dialogue》 in 2022. This exhibition was conceived as an attempt by the artist to experience plant culture in diverse ways. Park has built an original artistic practice that departs from object-oriented works, instead focusing on the “place and spatiality” in which the exhibition is staged.
2022.09.05