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South Koreaโ€™s 2027 Visual Arts Budget: KRW 101 Billion (Approx. USD 75.8 Million), Questioning the Effectiveness of Public Policy in Advancing Korean Contemporary Art - K-ARTNOW

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) has proposed a budget of KRW 101 billion (approximately USD 75.8 million) for the visual arts sector in 2027. This figure includ ...
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Cho Duck Hyun: From the Representation of Memory to the Materiality of Time; The Internationalization of Korean Contemporary Art in the 1990s, the Aesthetics of Photographic ...

Cho Duck Hyun (b. 1957) is among the artists who gained prominence as Korean contemporary art expanded its engagement with the international art world in the 1990s. Beginning with meticulous pencil ...
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๋””์ž์ธํ•˜์šฐ์Šค 50์ฃผ๋…„ ๊ธฐ๋…์ „ ใ€Š๋ง‰(MAK)ใ€‹: ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋””์ž์ธ ๋ฌธํ™” 50๋…„, ์ฐฝ์ž‘๊ณผ ์‹คํ—˜์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ

๋””์ž์ธ ์ „๋ฌธ ์ถœํŒ๊ณผ ๋ฌธํ™” ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋””์ž์ธ ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•ด ์˜จ ๋””์ž์ธํ•˜์šฐ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ฐฝ๋ฆฝ 50์ฃผ๋…„์„ ๋งž์•„ ๊ธฐ๋…์ „ ใ€Š๋ง‰(MAK)ใ€‹์„ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•œ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„ 10์›” 27์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 11์›” 25์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ์„œ์šธ ์žฅ์ถฉ๋™ ๋””์ž์ธํ•˜์šฐ์Šค ์‚ฌ์˜ฅ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œ์—๋Š” ๋””์ž์ธ๊ณผ ๊ณต์˜ˆ, ๊ฑด์ถ•, ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ, ํŒจ์…˜, ์Œ์‹ ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ์ฐฝ์ž‘์ž 18ํŒ€, 26๋ช…์ด ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์žฌ๋ฃŒ์™€ ...
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์กฐ๋•ํ˜„, ๊ธฐ์–ต๊ณผ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€์—์„œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ฌผ์งˆ์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ: 1990๋…„๋Œ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ ํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ์˜ ๊ตญ์ œํ™”์™€ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ๋“œ๋กœ์ž‰์˜ ๋ฏธํ•™, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ...

์กฐ๋•ํ˜„(Cho Duck Hyun, b. 1957)์€ 1990๋…„๋Œ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ ํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ์ด ๊ตญ์ œ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ณ„์™€ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ต๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๋˜ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ›์€ ์ž‘๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ํ•œ ๋ช…์ด๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ํ‘๋ฐฑ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์—ฐํ•„๊ณผ ์ฝ˜ํ…Œ๋กœ ์ •๊ตํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์žฌํ˜„ํ•˜๋Š” ํšŒํ™”์—์„œ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•ด ์„ค์น˜, ๋ฐœ๊ตด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ, ์˜์ƒ๊ณผ ์„œ์‚ฌ์  ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์—…์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์—์„œ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต๊ณผ ์—ญ์‚ฌ, ๊ธฐ ...
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Irini Papadimitriou Appointed Artistic Director of the 14th Seoul Mediacity Biennale

The Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) has appointed Irini Papadimitriou as Artistic Director of the 14th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, scheduled to open in August 2027. Irini Papadimitriou is a contemporary art ...
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Yoo Youngkuk Retrospective at SeMA Becomes Museum's Most-Visited Exhibition

Organized to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Yoo Youngkuk (1916โ€“2002), a leading figure in Korean abstract art, the exhibition was the largest retrospective of his work to date. It surveyed ...
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Design Houseโ€™s 50th Anniversary Exhibition ใ€ŠMAKใ€‹, 50 Years of Korean Design Culture: New Possibilities for Creative Experimentation

Design House, which has contributed to the development of Korean design culture through specialized publishing and cultural content, celebrates its 50th anniversary with the exhibition ใ€ŠMAKใ€‹. Held ...
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Jaehong Ahnโ€™s Solo Exhibition โ€œShells and Stemsโ€ on View Through November 21, 2026, at WWNN

WWNN presents a solo exhibition ใ€ŠShells and Stemsใ€‹ by Berlin-based artist Jaehong Ahn, on view through November 21. Through scenes where the human and the non-human, the artif ...
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์„œ์šธ์‹œ๋ฆฝ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€ โ€˜์œ ์˜๊ตญ ํšŒ๊ณ ์ „,โ€™ ์—ญ๋Œ€ ์ตœ๋‹ค ๊ด€๋žŒ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ ๊ธฐ๋ก

์„œ์šธ์‹œ๋ฆฝ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€์€ 2026๋…„ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ทผ๋Œ€ ๊ฑฐ์žฅ์ „ ใ€Š์œ ์˜๊ตญ: ์‚ฐ์€ ๋‚ด ์•ˆ์— ์žˆ๋‹คใ€‹๊ฐ€ ๋ˆ„์  ๊ด€๋žŒ๊ฐ 457,082๋ช…์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ๋ง‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฐœ๊ด€์ผ 141์ผ ๋™์•ˆ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ํ‰๊ท  3,242๋ช…์ด ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„์  ๊ด€๋žŒ๊ฐ ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์„œ์šธ์‹œ๋ฆฝ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ ์ „์‹œ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ์—ญ๋Œ€ ์ตœ๋‹ค์ด๋ฉฐ, 2023๋…„ ๊ฐœ์ตœ๋œ ใ€Š์—๋“œ์›Œ๋“œ ํ˜ธํผ: ๊ธธ ์œ„์—์„œใ€‹ ๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ 12๋งŒ ๋ช… ์ด์ƒ ๋งŽ๋‹ค. ์„œ์šธ์‹œ๋ฆฝ ...
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Artist Hong Jin-hwon Named Winner of โ€˜Korea Artist Prize 2026โ€™

Artist Hong Jin-hwon has been selected as the recipient of the ใ€ŠKorea Artist Prize 2026ใ€‹, co-presented by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) and the SBS Foundation. The ...
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์•ˆ์žฌํ™ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ „ โ€œShells and Stemsโ€ 2026๋…„ 11์›” 21์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ WWNN์—์„œ ๊ฐœ์ตœ

WWNN์€ ์•ˆ์žฌํ™ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ „ ใ€ŠShells and Stemsใ€‹๋ฅผ 11์›” 21์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋…์ผ ๋ฒ ๋ฅผ๋ฆฐ์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ์•ˆ์žฌํ™์€ ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋น„์ธ๊ฐ„, ์ธ๊ณต๊ณผ ์ž์—ฐ์ด ๊ต์ฐจํ•˜๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์˜จ ํ˜„์‹ค์˜ ์งˆ์„œ์™€ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. ๊ณ ์š”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐ€๋„ ๋†’์€ ํšŒํ™” ์†์—์„œ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์€ ๋‚ฏ์„  ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์†์— ๋†“์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜์™€ ์œ„๊ณ„๋Š” ์„œ์„œํžˆ ...
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โ€œHaneyl Choi: Sleepwalkingโ€ on View Through December 27, 2026, at Art Sonje Center

Sleepwalkingใ€‹, on view through December 27 at Space 1. Haneyl Choi works primarily in sculpture, exploring questions of desire, social ...