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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Dark Factory》, 2025.06.05 – 2025.06.12, MMCA, Changdong Residency Curated by Andrew Cummings and Julia Colletti, researchers-in-residence of the 23rd Changdong Residency at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the exhibition 《Dark Factory》 unfolds through site-specific installations and the flickering rhythms of projected images,
2025.06.05
Exhibitions "Spin - off" on View Through September 8, 2023, at ELEPHANTSPACE ELEPHANTSPACE is pleased to present Spin-off, an exhibition by Song Min Jung, Oh Joo Young, and CO/EX (Kim Ju Won, An Cho Rong) from August 18 to September 8.
2023.08.30

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Sejin Kwon: Paintings That Reveal the Layers of Time Sejin Kwon (b. 1988) captures landscapes encountered in everyday life through photographic images, which he then reconstructs in painting. Through the processes of deconstructing and recombining photographs, the artist visually reveals traces of temporal flow and transformation. His repeated brushstrokes create layered strata of time, returning yesterday’s landscape to that of the day before.
2026.03.23
Articles [Critique] Hyunsun Jeon Solo Exhibition: Parallel Paths (Alternative Space LOOP, 2018) Various forms appear in Hyunsun Jeon's paintings. While these forms are somewhat recognizable as to what they might be, the totality they compose remains ambiguous and undefined.
2018

Mid-Career Artists

Activities The Art Battle at Airports: Haegue Yang and GaHee Park Head to New York’s JFK Airport Love at first sight—how likely is it, really? The probability is close to zero. But people constantly try to increase their chances, putting in effort to make a good first impression.
2024.07.28

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Portraits of Son Donghyun Son Donghyun’s early works are represented by portraits of characters from films and animations—figures that are visible yet cannot be said to truly exist. These meticulously rendered portraits of virtual figures, executed in traditional techniques, both directly reveal the contemporary condition in which images have come to dominate and assert,
2020
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Vertical Impulse, Horizontal Impulse》, 2018.01.09 - 2018.04.29, Daegu Art Museum 《Vertical Impulse, Horizontal Impulse》 is a collection exhibition composed of selected works from the museum’s holdings that exhibit structural forms of “verticality” and “horizontality.”
2018.01.07
Exhibitions 《Funkchestra》, 2005.09.23 – 2005.10.23, Arko Art Center As the Marronnier Art Center of the Korea Culture and Arts Foundation was renamed Arko Art Center under the Arts Council Korea, the 2005 Planned Invitation Exhibitions I and II were organized as the inaugural exhibitions. Beginning on September 23, 2005, the exhibitions consisted of solo shows by Hong Kyoungtack and Choi Jin-wook, held in Gallery 1 and Gallery 2 respectively.
2005.09.29

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Kim Tschoon Su’s Bodily Language: The ‘Strange Tongue’ Series Kim Tschoon Su’s work began with an awakening to the arbitrariness and limitations of language—what he calls the “strangeness of the tongue.” His act of painting is therefore a questioning of the linguistic, of all descriptive modes of utterance.
1994
Articles Artist Kim Eull Draws Freely Standing in the Middle of the World Artist Kim Eull (b. 1954) has garnered attention for his broad spectrum of work that transcends the narrow definition and formal limitations of the medium of drawing and encompasses various boundaries such as painting, sculpture, and installation. Kim perceives and works with drawing as an attitude rather than a form. For him, drawing is associated with an attitude of freedom, honesty, and a clear conscience.
2024.08.13