Installation view of 《Till 7, From 7: Part 1》 ©DrawingRoom
DrawingRoom
presents Part I of its 7th anniversary exhibition, 《Till
7, From 7》, on view through March 28. With this
exhibition, DrawingRoom brings together eight artists who have been introduced
through its annual flagship initiative, the Emerging Artist Support Program,
which has remained at the core of the gallery’s programming.
The
exhibition also offers an opportunity to reflect on the past and present of
DrawingRoom, which has shaped its direction and identity since its founding in
2019 through ongoing collaborations with emerging artists. The excitement and
tension that have accompanied each exhibition’s preparation are here expanded
into “a small festival celebrating the everyday.”
(left) Donghoon Rhee,Wheat Celosia, Dahlia, Cosmos and Globe Amaranth, 2025, Acrylic on ginkgo, 43 x 92 x 41cm / (right) Heejae Lim, Study for Stuffed Stuffed Chamois and Wild Sheep, 2022, Oil on canvas, 27.3 x 34.8cm ©DrawingRoom
In Part
I of the exhibition, works by four artists previously selected for the Emerging
Artist Support Program—Minsu Kim, Jieun Roh, Donghoon Rhee, and Heejae Lim—are
highlighted.
As a
first-year selected artist, Donghoon Rhee persistently
explores not so much what to paint as how to paint, prompting reflection on the
very attitude of painting itself. His practice raises questions about stance
prior to form, demonstrating the potential for sustainable growth through
processes of accumulation and expansion.
Selected
in the program’s second edition, Heejae Lim presents
metaphors for human desire through the motif of taxidermied animals. By
intersecting the surface quality of the pictorial plane with the materiality of
desire, her compositions compel viewers to confront both the object of their
gaze and what lies beneath it.
(left) Minsu Kim, Park, 2022, Acrylic, oil on canvas, 65.1 x 90.9cm / (right) Jieun Roh, Joy, 2025, Ink and color pigment on jangji, 116.5 x 78cm ©DrawingRoom
Presented
as a two-person exhibition, Minsu Kim and Jieun
Roh began from different cultural backgrounds and artistic media, yet
each articulated a distinctly contemporary sensibility characteristic of
artists born in the 1990s through their own wit and approach. Developed over
the course of a year of dialogue, the exhibition became, as its title suggests,
a moment in which the two artists’ “humming” resonated in harmony.
《Till 7,
From 7》 sets forth from this very accumulation of time.
Just as the Emerging Artist Support Program has done over the past seven years,
DrawingRoom has conceived this exhibition as a small festival that once again
celebrates each artist’s practice within the rhythms of everyday life—adding a
light cadence to the time that has passed.
Participating
Artists: Minsu Kim, Jieun Roh, Donghoon Rhee, Heejae Lim
