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Contemporary gallery with a large projected artwork and a vertical illuminated display.

Artist Lee Lee-nam turns a single drop of water into a mountain of media art

Media artist Lee Lee-nam transforms microbial life from Damyang’s Yongso Falls into immersive landscapes and sound at Hakgojae Gallery.

2026.9.23

Nighttime courtyard event with guests, dining tables, greenery, and a lit central staircase.

During Frieze Seoul, art finds a home in the city's historic hanok

Estates across central Seoul host major exhibitions, offering a quieter art route beyond the fair.

2026.8.31

Lee Jong-gu turns 'Pensive' in self-reflective solo exhibition at Hakgojae Gallery

Veteran painter Lee Jong-gu, a central figure in Korea's 1980s minjung art movement — which emerged in opposition to Korea's authoritarian rule and rapid industrialization — opened his solo exhibition “Pensive” at Hakgojae Gallery on Wednesday.

2026.5.20

Artist Yun-hee Toh's painting is on view at Gallery Hyundai in central Seoul as part of her solo show ″Berlin.″ [GALLERY HYUNDAI]

Put your fears aside and dive into the world of abstract art

“We must not be afraid of this word ‘abstract.’ All art is primarily abstract.” Korean art historian Kim Boggi quoted British art historian and philosopher Herbert Read (1893-1968) in the introduction to a new exhibition titled “Seeking ‘Eidos:’...

2022.1.17

A close-up view of ″Sculptors″ by Xooang Choi [HAKGOJAE GALLERY]

Xooang Choi uses disaster to widen his horizons

Those who are familiar with Korean artist Xooang Choi, 46, who gained international fame for his uncanny hyper-realistic sculptures of distorted human bodies, might be surprised to see his new works now on view at Hakgojae Gallery in central Seoul.

2021.8.16

″Lesson on Plants″(2021) by artist Kim Eun-jeong [HAKGOJAE GALLERY]

Hakgojae Gallery attracts attention with young artists' paintings

Painting, which had been the most important medium of visual art for a long time, was considered by a lot of art insiders as old or even obsolete medium in recent decades amid a flood of installation and new media art. However, in the Korean art...

2021.7.12

A lacquer and jewelry work in ″Talking with Trees″ series by Chae Rimm now on view at Hakgojae Gallery in central Seoul. [HAKGOJAE GALLERY]

Chae Rimm presents jewelry for your walls

The paintings now on view at Hakgojae Gallery in central Seoul are literally like jewels. The landscapes glimmer like enamel jewelry while some of the round-shaped paintings have golden branches dangling pearls perched on their surfaces.

2021.6.1

The exhibition “Time in Space: The Life Style” at PKM Gallery in central Seoul presents artworks by old masters and contemporary artists along with vintage furniture pieces as if the galley space were the house of a stylish collector. [PKM GALLERY]

As museums shutter, galleries offer glimpses of art

While the national and municipal museums in Seoul are closed indefinitely in line with tightened social distancing measures amid a surge in Covid-19 cases, several commercial galleries opened new exhibitions that feature artworks and craftworks...

2020.12.21

A photography of Reality and Utterance artists taken in 1982 [HAKGOJAE GALLERY]

Reality and Utterance ages gracefully and still resonates

“Speaking truth with art” was the motto of the Reality and Utterance art collective — a group of young, revolutionary and rebellious artists who came together in October 1980 to lead the Minjung Art movement, commonly known as the people’s...

2020.7.10

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