2024. 1: Kim Hyun Seok, Liam Gillick, Lee Deok Young, Jackson Hong

Every work in the exhibition has an analogous relationship with structural aspects of the present society. Practical appearances found in a PC and its peripherals, constructs appearing like precision machinery, radically intricate façades of a building and stationery produced for promotion simulate the properties and systematic mechanism of the spaces we occupy. Along with the notions and authenticity that the four artists intend to suggest, an adaptation of familiar images and objects discovered in their works allows the audience to stay in the reestablished Sinnfeld and pay attention to contexts and phenomena hidden in the artworks.

This exhibition encourages the viewers to introspect about the flow of the world inseparable from technology and a side of this era when the enhancement of Information Technology has an extensive influence while capitalism intensifies. Above all, by borrowing the perspective of the artists, it examines the subjective interpretations of the current society’s peculiar dynamics, for example, fiction and reality, essence and its derivation and context and its transition; thus, it offers the opportunity to re-deliberate on a role of art as device projecting contemporary situations.

Kim Hyun Seok (b.1988) received a BFA in Animation at Kongju National University and an MFA in Visual Art at the Korea National University of Arts. His solo exhibitions held at Cheongju Art Studio (2022), All Time Space (2021), Soshoroom (2017) and Space 291 (2015). Also, he has attended multiple group exhibitions at Seoul Art Space Mullae (2023), Songeun (2022), Daejeon Museum of Art (2022), Schema Art Museum (2021) and O’NewWall (2020).  

Liam Gillick (b.1964) graduated from Hertfordshire College of Art and Goldsmiths College. He was selected as one of the nominees for the Turner Prize, the most prestigious award in Britain, in 2002 and a presentative artist for the German Pavilion at Venice Biennale in 2009. Gillick presented solo exhibitions at numerous leading global art establishments, including MoMA New York (2003), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2009), Le Magasin Grenoble (2014), Kunsthalle Zürich (2008) and Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga (2005).

Lee Deok Young (b.1990) completed a BFA and MFA in Painting at Mokwon University. His solo exhibitions held at Cheongju Art Studio (2022), ArtSpace128 (2021, 2019), LeeUngno Museum M2 Project-room (2020) and Woo Yeon Gallery (2016). He participated in several group exhibitions at the Daejeon Museum of Art (2023), Seoul National University Museum of Art (2022), Daejeon Creative Center (2022) and ChangUcchin Museum of Art (2019).

Jackson Hong (b.1971) received a BFA and MFA in Industrial Design at Seoul National University and later his second MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Hong presented his solo exhibitions at respected institutions, such as Crafts on The Hill (2023), Ilwoo Space (2021), Tastehouse (2019), Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (2018) and Perigee Gallery (2016). His practice was invited to numerous art expositions, including the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale (2023), Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (2021), Gallery Doublet Plantation (2021), Democracy and Human Rights Memorial Hall (2019), Ilmin Museum of Art (2017) and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea (2014).