K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.
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Artist Cho Hyo Ri: Illusory Virtual Spaces Beyond the Canvas
Cho Hyo Ri (b. 1992) has developed a painting practice that intersects seemingly opposing elements—reality and virtuality, three-dimensionality and flatness, materiality and illusion—within a single frame, evoking uncanny sensations and imaginative experiences. Her work connects three axes: the illusory virtual space within the painting, the viewer’s physical movement in real space, and the time in which the virtual and the real intersect. Through this, she invites the viewer to imagine movement and spatial depth beyond the stillness of the pictorial surface.
2025.06.30
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Artist Jeong Juwon: Translating the Traces of Life’s Landscapes into Painting
Jeong Juwon (b. 1992) has translated her personal narratives onto canvas by observing the place she stands and the circumstances surrounding her. In particular, through her experience of living in a four-generation household, she has metaphorically expressed complex emotions and reflections on human life and death, growth and aging, care and dependence.
2025.11.17
Exhibitions
“Disturbed Pleasure” on View Through June 24, 2026, at WWNN
WWNN presents the group exhibition 《Disturbed Pleasure》, on view through June 24. Human responses to unsettling scenes rarely resolve into a single emotion. Fear often becomes entangled with curiosity, while attraction and aversion coexist in a state of ambivalence. The gaze lingers, unable to withdraw easily, and judgment is momentarily suspended.
2026.06.16
Exhibitions
《Without Saying Anything》, 2022.09.24 – 2022.10.21, Gallery SoSo
Standing Worker. This person cannot sit here. He can’t afford to sit down because of his busy mind. He looks around sincerely, checks left and right constantly, and rings the bell regularly. The light of the high watchtower does not go out like what the busy mind would hope for, and the arms extending in all directions under the shoulders are folded and
2022.09.22
Exhibitions
Bek Hyunjin’s Solo Exhibition “Seoul Syntax” on View Through March 21, 2026, at PKM Gallery
PKM Gallery is pleased to present 《Seoul Syntax》, a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Bek Hyunjin, on view through March 21 at the annex. As an artist, musician, and actor, Bek has cultivated a diverse and boundary-defying practice. The exhibition brings together recent jangji (traditional Korean mulberry paper) paintings, drawings, and video set against the backdrop of Seoul, the city where the artist was born and raised.
2026.02.17
