DOOSAN Art Center’s DOOSAN Gallery is holding its first exhibition of 2025, 《DOOSAN ART LAB Exhibition 2025》, on view through March 8.

The DOOSAN ART LAB program has been run by DOOSAN Art Center since 2010 as a way of discovering and supporting young practitioners of the visual and performing arts. Each year, five visual artists aged 35 and under are selected on a competitive basis to have their work shown at a group exhibition. The artists taking part in 《DOOSAN ART LAB Exhibition 2025》 are goyoson, Yuja Kim, Songhee Noh, Jang Daeun, and Chang Younghae.

Each of the five artists keenly perceives the distance between themselves and what lies outside them, as they focus their questions on that gap. They may work actively to bridge the divide, discover new things within it, or incorporate the unbridged gap itself into their work.

goyoson understands sculpture through its interactions with surrounding entities, actively incorporating the changes that emerge from this process into his works. He embraces every kind of condition that introduces variable possibility into sculpture—not only deliberate acts but also elements that arise and accumulate naturally as time flows within spaces, including warmth, marks, and weights.

Yuja Kim uses the medium of photography to pose questions about what is seen and unseen. Her work focuses on subjects lost due to film damage, the marks left on the body by sleeping, and unclearly detected moments such as those associated with figures who are stopping or trembling.

Songhee Noh makes use of tangible and intangible archives and exhibition spaces as her materials, producing videos that usher them to a meta level. Beyond her close examinations of the essence of materials, Noh imbues new tempos and structures into memory through her deconstructions of fixed scenes from existing narratives.

As an artist working across multiple media, Chang Younghae shares a multifaceted exploration of the physical properties and positions of the changing body when it is filtered through social rules, technological environments, and media. For this exhibition, Chang examines how the vitality of the body is dulled and distorted in sensory terms in a contemporary society dominated by advanced media and technology.

Jang Daeun investigates the concepts associated with surfaces and curtains, collecting stories of the different times and spaces that exist behind and beyond them. The folktales, children’s stories, and histories that Jang has assembled are archived and attested to in her work through an act of “drawing” that blurs the boundaries of two-dimensional art, three-dimensional art, and performance.

Participating Artists: goyoson, Yuja Kim, Songhee Noh, Jang Daeun, Chang Younghae

“DOOSAN ART LAB Exhibition 2025”
2025.01.22 - 2025.03.08
Tue-Sat 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
DOOSAN Gallery
15, Jongno 33-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea

Ji Yeon Lee has been working as an editor for the media art and culture channel AliceOn since 2021 and worked as an exhibition coordinator at samuso (now Space for Contemporary Art) from 2021 to 2023.