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

Mid-Career:
3 K-Artists This Week

Artist_K-Artist Artist Choi Sujin: Weaving Sensations of Everyday Life and Traces of Time into Painting
2026.08.03
Artist_K-Artist Artist Yooyun Yang: Capturing Contemporary Anxiety Through Light and Darkness 2026.08.03
Artist_K-Artist Artist Mackerel Safranski: Exploring the “External Body” Formed Through Relations with Others 2026.08.03

Mid-Career
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Young Artists

Exhibitions 《Is there any place for us?》, 2021.08.19 – 2021.09.11, ThisWeekendRoom ThisWeekendRoom presents a two person exhibition by Moka Lee and Jiwon Choi, 《Is there any place for us?》 The title of the exhibition is inspired by a novel, ‘From the Zero Person’s Point of View’ (2019), written by Yoon Haeseo;
2021.08.15
Activities The Faces of ‘Selected Young JEONBUK Artists 2022’… 《INTRO》 Exhibition Introducing Seo Suin, Shin Youngjin, and Miryu Yoon The Jeonbuk Museum of Art (Director Kim Eun-young) has selected Seo Suin (29), Shin Youngjin (37), and Miryu Yoon (31) for its annual program, “Selected Young JEONBUK Artists 2022.”
2022.01.24
Exhibitions 《HOURGLASS》, 2021.12.09 – 2022.01.22, KICHE
2021.12.08
Articles Artist Yuja Kim: Between the Visible and the Invisible
2026.02.09
Articles Artist Mooni Perry: On 'Double-Fallen' Beings That Belong to Neither Side
2025.06.02
Articles [Critique] Reflections on Taewon Ahn's Work: Searching for the PPURI(Roots) of the Image
2024.06.29

Emerging Artists

Articles Abstract Paintings of Hejum Bä Reviving Primitive Perception Hejum Bä (b. 1987) explores the gap between trained perspectives and the visual-perceptual viewpoints shaped by familiar painting conventions through various media.
2025.03.25
Articles [Essay] Things That Make Me Feel Queasy When I Look at Them Looking at the thick, round, flattened flesh of a thigh pressed against a chair, I want to slice it up bit by bit. It looks soft and pillowy, yet I also want to stab something blunt and heavy straight into it.
2021
Exhibitions 《The 8th Summer Saeng-Saek》, 2023.06.01 – 2023.06.12, Insa Art Center
2023.06.01
Articles [Review] We are drawn to what is repulsive
2023.07
Exhibitions 《Who Is Weaving the Sky Net?》, 2024.11.02 – 2025.01.05, Yeo Workshop (Singapore)
2024.10.31
Exhibitions 《Submersible》, 2020.04.01 – 2020.05.05, Kumho Museum of Art
2020.03.30

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Inside of Light》, 2019.05.22 – 2019.06.22, UARTSPACE UARTSPACE holds Yunsung Lee’s solo exhibition 《Inside of Light》 from May 22 to June 22, 2019. The exhibition presents ‘Zodiac,’ a group of figures that consist of beautiful girls’ characters, 12 drawings of each character, and a haning sculpture created by collecting sparkling and golden elements which repeatedly appear in his works.
2019.05.20
Exhibitions 《Come Sit with Me》, 2023.08.09 – 2023.09.13, Hakgojae Gallery
2023.08.07
Articles Artist Jeongsu Woo’s Allegorical Paintings of Contemporary Times
2025.02.18
Exhibitions 2020 Asia Project 《Looking for Another Family》, 2020.05.22 – 2020.08.23, MMCA 2020.05.20

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Between the Peripheral and the Central Searching for the unfamiliar in the most familiar places. We tend to take things for granted, even when they are solely personal.
2013.10.31
Articles [Critique] Square Note: A musical score for painting
2015
Articles Artist Kim Jipyeong Explores the Contemporary in Traditional Korean Painting
2025.02.04
Articles Artist Son Donghyun’s Contemporary Exploration of Traditional Painting 2025.02.04

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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Yongbaek Lee's Art and Its Hidden Side "I am an artist working with various media. I believe that art is a dynamic process of life experimenting on yet another possibility of life breaking down social prejudices and forced formality…" (Yongbaek Lee)
2011
Exhibitions 《Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989》, 2016.05.04 – 2016.07.24, MMCA Seoul 《Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989》 explores and illuminates how photography has been developing as a unique and mature visual language and form in itself whilst interacting with other forms of contemporary visual languages in last three decades of contemporary Korean art.
2016.05.04
Exhibitions 《Walk in the Sun》, 2019.10.23 – 2019.11.30, SONGEUN
2019.10.20
Activities Three Artists, Three Worlds: Beautiful, Chilling, and Bittersweet – 2010 Hermes Foundation Art Prize Exhibition
2010.07.27
Activities Im Sunny, Selected as a 6th Artist-in-Residence at the 2015 Incheon Art Platform.
2015
Articles [Review] Lee Donggi《Zero Gravity》
2014

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
Exhibitions 《Kim Beom》, 2010.05.15 - 2010.08.01, Art Sonje Center Kim Beom presents works that escape from socially educated ideas as well as works that reveal the fictional aspect within an image.
2010.05.13
Exhibitions 《(Im)Possible Landscape》, 2012.11.08 - 2013.02.03, PLATEAU
2012.11.06
Exhibitions 《RE-ATTA Part I: On-Air Project》, 2014.01.09 – 2014.02.15, 313 Art Project
2014.01.09
Activities Kiwon Park Named Artist of the Year by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
2010.01.14
Articles Artist Inhyeon Lee’s Ways of Seeing the Painting
2024.07.30