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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Pirated Futures + Doomsday Garden》, 2019.12.12 – 2019.12.14, Art Sonje Center B1 Art Hall Starting tomorrow, Eugene Jung's 《Pirated Futures + Doomsday Garden》 will be presented at the Art Hall of Art Sonje Center for three days.
2019.12.13
Exhibitions 《The Statue Knows How to Dance》, 2021.07.08 – 2021.07.31, Gallery SP The solo exhibition 《The Statue Knows How to Dance》 by rising sculptor Rhee Donghoon, known for his distinctive and sensuous approach to sculpture, was held at Gallery SP from July 8 (Thu) to July 31 (Sat). Marking the artist’s second solo show, the exhibition presented approximately twelve works including both sculptures and paintings.
2021.07.05

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Hexed, Vexed and Sexed》, 2023.11.03 – 2024.01.14, West Den Haag (Hague, NL) The title ‘Hexed, Vexed & Sexed’ points to the vexed freedom of women artists in the world today. It reclaims the Hex as a discipline of feminine intellect and politics, capable of transforming social circumstances from the inside out.
2023.09.20
Activities Chong Kun Dang Selects Three Artists for ‘Art Ground 2024’… Providing Creative Funding and More Chong Kun Dang Holdings announced on the 13th that it had held the Chong Kun Dang Art Ground 2024 Artist Certificate Ceremony at the Westin Chosun Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul, on the 12th. The company selected Park No-wan, Park Woong-gyu, and Jang Pa as this year’s artists.
2024.03.13

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Orange Sleep》, 2023.01.05 – 2023.02.12, ONE AND J. Gallery When done alone it would be just daily routine whereas with two people, it becomes an event. Sleep is the state required for survival, a part of normal life, an act bearing a sexual image.
2023.01.01

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions Arario Gallery Seoul’s Reopening Exhibition, "Romantic Irony" on View Through March 18, 2023 Arario Gallery was established in 1989 in Cheonan and opened its first Seoul outpost in April 2006 after renovating an old building located in Sogyeok-dong. The Seoul branch moved to Samcheong-dong in 2014 and ran for approximately eight years before moving to a larger venue.
2023.02.13
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Proximity of Longing》, 2014.11.25 – 2014.12.02, Culture Station Seoul 284 The so-called “advanced” developed nations, once seen as the future model for developing countries, have moved the currents of the world for centuries under the names of great powers or empires. Although formerly colonized and impoverished countries may have freed themselves from physical constraints, under the tide of neoliberalism, they continue to repeat new forms of colonial behavior.
2014.11.20
Articles Artist Byungjun Kwon Dreams of Human Solidarity Through Robot Byungjun Kwon (b. 1971) began his artistic career in the 1990s by forming a music band and entering the world of popular music. In the mid-2000s, he worked as a hardware engineer at STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music), a Dutch institution dedicated to electronic instrument research and development.
2024.10.23

Established Artists

Activities Kim Sooja Wins the 34th Fukuoka Prize Kim Sooja gained international presence as an artist for her work based on Asian culture during the 1990s, when modern art broadened its Western-centric horizons to include more diverse cultures.
2024.05.29
Articles Artist Gimhongsok Translates Social Phenomena into Art Gimhongsok (b. 1964) has been rearranging various social, political, and cultural phenomena through translation and appropriation in his works, starting from text-based works that rely on ambiguity to address the boundary between reality and fiction, for the past 20 years.
2024.07.16