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Artist Ru Kim: Art in Resistance to Structures of Violence
Ru Kim (b. 1995) works primarily with performance, video, sound, installation, and text to explore the social function of art and the structures of violence. In particular, Kim has presented works that question how art can resist sexist and racist violences that have been normalized through colonial ideologies of domination.
2025.09.15
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
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Artist Yun Choi: A Mutant World of Cache-Images Born from Korean Society
Yun Choi (b. 1989) works across video, installation, sculpture, and ceramics to weave together the social climates and byproducts generated by Korean modernity. Her practice particularly focuses on the uncanny remnants of popular culture and the temporalities of geopolitics within Korean society, exploring the collective emotions and afterimages embedded within them.
2025.09.22
Exhibitions
《Stand Alone》, 2024.02.01 – 2024.02.29, Gallery SP
From February 1 to 29, 2024, Gallery SP presents the group exhibition 《Stand Alone》, featuring artists Minae Kim, Minha Yang, Sungoo Im, Yoonhee Choi, and Jin Han. The exhibition began from the image of Gallery SP’s divided, ant-tunnel-like space—an idea that evoked the Library of Babel,
2024.02.01
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Activities
Irreplaceable Artists Take on the ‘NFT Challenge’
Countless “shoo” characters rush forward. Their movement seems to generate the very sound of “shoo shoo shoo.” As the upward-surging “shoo” overlaps with those chasing from below, there are moments
2022.06.20
Exhibitions
《MNEMOSYNE – A River of Memory》, 2024.10.10 - 2025.01.31, Um Museum
For modern people, forgetting is something to be feared. Ironically, however, the culture of collective amnesia in contemporary society continues to accelerate. While new technologies are astonishing, their remarkable capabilities gradually diminish both our will to remember and our capacity for memory. Here is an artist who resists the crisis of collective forgetting by replacing the mechanically reproducible image of photography with the unique originality of hand-crafted work, connecting the ‘you’ of yesterday with the ‘I’ of today.
2024.10.08
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[Review] Critical Thought in Art: The Case of Yoon Dongchun
A long black-and-pink rectangle; a short blue-and-yellow rectangle; a three-tiered rectangle composed of white, blue, and red; a piece of military-patterned fabric bearing the letters “BTS”; a seascape with an iceberg floating upon it. Before us stretches an artwork measuring 775.6 cm in width, consisting of these five panels aligned horizontally, tightly joined without a single gap. Now then — how would you view this work?
2021
