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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Exit Exit》, 2019.11.08 – 2019.11.28, SHIFT / Art Space HYEONG Sikyung Sung’s solo exhibition 《Exit Exit》 is held from November 8 to 28 at SHIFT / Art Space HYEONG.
2019.11.06
Exhibitions 《July 12, 2008, Apartment 507, Building 106, Cheonggu 3rd Complex》, 2025.09.18 – 2025.10.25, Culture Salon 5120 As part of the Youth Week curated program, Dahoon Nam’s solo exhibition 《July 12, 2008, Apartment 507, Building 106, Cheonggu 3rd Complex》 will be held from Thursday, September 18 to Saturday, October 25 at Culture Salon 5120 (B1, Gongneung Happy Housing).
2025.09.17

Emerging Artists

Activities 10 Artists to Watch This Year, Selected by Kiaf SEOUL The Galleries Association of Korea officially announced the 10 semifinalist artists for ‘2025 Kiaf HIGHLIGHTS’ on July 3, ahead of the upcoming Kiaf SEOUL 2025 in September. This program signals a new chapter in the art scene by highlighting emerging talents.
2025.07.15
Articles [Critique] Bloated Surfaces and Fragile Image Strategies A spherical form made of steel is covered with sharp iron cones protruding like spikes, and on one side of it sits a rectangular image. Careful not to let one’s gaze be captured by the threatening cones jutting out as if they might pierce, one cautiously looks into the image and encounters a ray of light that appears to be an exit, seen within a cave or the ruins of a collapsed building.
2023

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Review] Stories Expanding into Life, Relationships, and Society… Captured Through the Language of Metaphor [Park Miran’s Whispering Paintings]– Woosung Lee Solo Exhibition “Come Sit with me” (Hakgojae Gallery) The word "youth," which evokes images of bright, glowing days, seemed to suit him particularly well. His paintings speak clearly in a voice that is both serious and somehow pure. Some faces in his works seem to cry out, questioning why their words fail to reach you.
2023.08.26

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] The moment when the yoke of fragmented personal memories is perceived as our own problem: Who am I, and where did we come from. We explore artists’ identities through their works. Various messages can be observed in the life of a single artist: the problems of an individual, or of a society, or of a state.
2021
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] The Subtle Difference Created by Countless Repetitions: "We Built this City" Before overseas travel was completely liberalized in 1989, the only way for students to experience architecture around the world had been through texts and black-and-white photography.
2021.10.01
Activities The 20th Monthly Art Awards — Artist Choe U-Ram; Best Exhibition: 《Masterful Attention Seekers》 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan The winners of the 20th Monthly Art Awards have been announced: in the Artist category, Choe U-Ram; in the Criticism category, Jinshil Lee; and in the Exhibition category, 《Masterful Attention Seekers》 (curated by Sangho Choi)
2024.08.07

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] The Yeesookyungs¹ “In schematized time, nothing really new can emerge—everything is always-already there, and merely deploys its inherent potential... We are dealing here with another temporality, the temporality of freedom, of a radical rupture in the chain of (natural and/or social) causality.”
2012
Exhibitions 《Ahn Kyuchul: The Other Side of Things》, 2021.05.13. - 2021.07.25, Kukje Gallery Busan Kukje Gallery is pleased to present 《The Other Side of Things》, a solo exhibition of the Korean contemporary artist Ahn Kyuchul on view at Kukje Gallery Busan from May 13 through July 4, 2021.
2021.05.11