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Exhibitions
《Shadow Play》, 2025.10.23 – 2025.11.05, Faction
In traditional East Asian theatre, mysterious and non-human beings frequently appear—monsters, ghosts, and spiritual apparitions. These figures symbolically embody human joy, suffering, and conflict.
2025.10.22
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WONJEONG DEPARTMENT STORE: Drawing Unstable Fantasies into the Body and the Screen
WONJEONG DEPARTMENT STORE (b. 1999) explores desire for fantastical images and the ways these images connect the body to the world, primarily through media installations and performance. Drawing fleeting and unstable fantasies into the body and onto the screen, the artist experiments with bodily sensations experienced both online and offline.
2026.01.12
Exhibitions
《The Raw》, 2022.05.03 – 2022.05.29, Incheon Art Platform
As part of the Emerging Curator Training and Support Program at Incheon Art Platform, four participating curators present the culminating group exhibition 《The Raw》. Beginning with the entrenched and stereotyped notions of love shaped by patriarchal structures,
2022.05.03
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《Here and There》, 2025.03.20 – 2025.04.30, Galerie Lelong & Co. (Paris)
"I dream a lot" says Hyunsun Jeon. In her paintings, she tries to capture the diffuse feelings that persist when you wake up, when what remains of your dreams are impressions, colours and hybrid shapes – impossible syntheses of real memories. But Jeon's painting, however dreamlike, is above all driven by a concrete quest: what is an image, what is representation ?
2025.03.18
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《Super Mega Factory》, 2009.09.19 – 2009.10.18, Kukje Gallery
Kukje Gallery is pleased to present Kira Kim’s solo exhibition, Super Mega Factory. Over the past ten years, Kim has distinguished himself among young contemporary artists in Korea by presenting works that investigate and critique various aspects of capitalist society, using a diversity of mediums including photography,
2009.09.10
Exhibitions
《Korean Waves韓流 : Meet 6 Photographers and Korea》, 2011.07.14 – 2011.10.16, Aram Museum of Art
The “Korean Wave” (Hallyu), which began with television dramas in China in 1997, has since continued through K-pop and now extends beyond Asia, captivating audiences around the world. In fact, the term “Hallyu” was originally coined by Chinese media to describe the widespread popularity of Korean popular culture. Over time, its meaning has expanded to refer more broadly to the phenomenon in which people overseas admire and embrace Korean culture itself.
2011.07.14
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《My Names》, 2019.10.16 – 2019.12.11, Smith Gallery at Davidson College (North Carolina, U.S.A.)
In conjunction with the Baik Art Residency, the Smith Gallery will feature 《My Names》, a video installation by South Korean artist Inhwan Oh. The project began at a residency in 2010 at the Residency in Kyoto Art Center, Japan. The first video is an interview of Japanese women, who have changed their (family) names multiple times; the other video is a documentation of the artist’s performance, writing and erasing—through the act of ironing—the names of women introduced in the interview.
2019.10.15
