Installation view of 《Little Giants: The 90s Generation at KOO HOUSE Museum》 ©KOO HOUSE MuseumKOO HOUSE Museum presents 《Little Giants: The 90s Generation at KOO HOUSE Museum》, an exhibition featuring ten notable
Korean artists born in the 1990s, on view through February 1, 2026.
These artists of the 1990s generation do not adhere to a single
movement or style. Moving fluidly between reality and the virtual, personal
narratives and social sensibilities, technology and emotion, they are rewriting
the existing language of contemporary art.
Installation view of 《Little Giants: The 90s Generation at KOO HOUSE Museum》 ©KOO HOUSE MuseumThe exhibition Little Giants spotlights artists at the very
center of this shift. Born into a world where the internet was already woven
into daily life, they inhabit an era in which screens, images, and data have
become integral to perception itself.
Consequently, their ways of understanding the world—and the
visual languages through which they express emotion—are entirely new. For them,
art is not the outcome of expression but a process of sensory exploration, and
the artwork is not a completed object but a trace of a continuously
transforming existence.
As critics have described them as “a generation for whom
hybridity of sensibility and fluidity of medium come most naturally,” artists
born in the 1990s effortlessly move across the boundaries of painting,
sculpture, video, and installation.
Prioritizing concept over material, emotion over structure, and
experience over form, their approach reveals both the direction and the tension
of contemporary art today. Through their work, they interpret the present age
in the language of their generation, showing how art can harmonize social
commentary with introspective reflection.
Installation view of 《Little Giants: The 90s Generation at KOO HOUSE Museum》 ©KOO HOUSE MuseumThe exhibition features ten carefully selected artists chosen
from among more than 200 emerging talents recommended by figures across the art
world—including gallerists, critics, professors, professional docents, and art
journalists. Their emergence signals a fundamental transformation in the
sensibility and structure of artistic thought.
Through this exhibition, KOO HOUSE Museum seeks to demonstrate
that artists born in the 1990s are not merely “newcomers,” but new agents and
practitioners shaping the future of Korean contemporary art.
Participating
Artists: Yang-Ha, Yeon Yeoin, Oh Jieun, Yoori, Yoo Jiwon,
Rhee Donghoon, Lee Sojeong, Lee Yejoo, Chung Soohyun, Hong Sejin
