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Artist Hyun Nahm: Constructing Today’s World through the Lens of Miniascape
Hyun Nahm (b. 1990) translates contemporary landscapes and social phenomena into the language of sculpture. His work navigates the concept of Miniascape (縮景), a method of compressing vast natural landscapes into miniature forms. Originating from traditional East Asian horticultural practices—such as suseok (scholar's rocks), bonsai, and seokgasan (artificial rock mountains)—miniascape is not merely a reproduction of scenic imagery. Rather, it involves discovering a landscape within an object shaped by natural forces, and presenting it as a self-contained, miniature world.
2025.05.12
Exhibitions
《Facade in Facade》, 2021.07.22 – 2021.08.14, OCI Museum of Art
OCI Museum of Art (Director: Ji-hyun Lee) presents the solo exhibition 《Facade in Facade》 by emerging artist Hwang Wonhae, on view from July 21 to August 14, 2021, in the museum’s first-floor gallery. The exhibition is part of the 2021 OCI YOUNG CREATIVES program, an annual initiative supporting six selected young Korean artists through a series of consecutive solo exhibitions.
2021.07.20
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Artist Woojung Hoh: Exploring the Visual Reverberation and Potential of Minimal Pictorial Units
Woojung Hoh (b. 1987) represents his own pure abstraction by consistently exploring infinite possibilities and moderate variations found in the most fundamental combination of lines and faces. He collects images of various objects that emerge with interest in events and thoughts in modern society and expresses the meaning and the hidden side of them in the form of paintings.
2026.06.15
Activities
Ecological Space DMZ Encountered Through Art…《UNDO DMZ》
For beings with wings, the boundaries of land often lose their meaning. The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), where restrictions on human access are stricter than anywhere else on the Korean Peninsula, has become a haven for birds and insects that can freely traverse it. The DMZ is both a subject of scholarly observation and a source of inspiration for artists.
2025.08.13
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[Critique] Yongbaek Lee's Art and Its Hidden Side
"I am an artist working with various media. I believe that art is a dynamic process of life experimenting on yet another possibility of life breaking down social prejudices and forced formality…" (Yongbaek Lee)
2011
Exhibitions
《Anti-Narcisse》, 2014.02.23 - 2014.05.11, CRAC Alsace
How can one observe something from the point of view of the thing being observed?
‘Anti-Narcisse’—from which the exhibition borrows its title—is a book that, despite being extensively imagined by its potential “author,” the Brazilian anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, ultimately never came into existence.
2014.02.21
Exhibitions
《The Origin》, 2012.12.08 – 2013.02.21, GoEun Museum of Photography
From December 8, 2012 to February 21, 2013, the GoEun Museum of Photography presents a large-scale exhibition that brings together works revealing the origins and essence of photography. At a time when digital images proliferate, this exhibition offers a meaningful opportunity to reconsider photographic identity and to experience the fundamental power of the medium.
2012.12.08
Exhibitions
《2009 Artist of the Year - Suh Young-Sun》, 2009.07.03 - 2009.09.20, MMCA, Gwacheon
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, initiated the annual 《Artist of the Year》 exhibition in 1995 to shed light on artists who propose new directivities in the future of Korean art, by stimulating their creative inspirations and offering them the opportunity to share their growth and potential in art with the public.
2009.07.01
