Kim Joo-hyun's current works represent a series of creative endeavors striving to exclude conventional drawing devices, such as vanishing points, which were habitually employed in the past. While the artist intervenes to generate images on the canvas, the work is completed by focusing solely on creating color, ensuring meaning and intention do not surface. Water-based acrylic paint is applied horizontally, allowed to settle and dry, or tilted to induce flow. Through this process, the canvas reveals a natural visual topography. As artist Kim Joo-hyun stated, the “stability derived from uncertainty” does not resolve into form, stemming from an effort to constantly evade things defined and fixed by meaning. Since neither subject matter nor theme drives the image, the completed work evokes the artist's experienced synesthesia and fleeting moments. As seen in 〈Destiny of Warmth〉 (2025), diluted pigments accumulate, erode, and leave powdery residues. The duration of the production process remains unknowable until one observes the layers of color built up on the canvas's edges. However, it is intriguing that the physical time required for the layers of water and pigment to settle and stabilize on the canvas is comparable to that needed for the sedimentary layers or soil in an actual riverbed.


Theresia Venance Massawe (Theresia M.) is a Tanzanian painter who believes creativity promotes healing. Drawing from cartoons in local newspapers and animated films as a child, and the organic shapes in her surroundings, led her to pursue painting.
Her distinctive style has drawn numerous art enthusiasts from various backgrounds. In March 2022, she presented in a group exhibition "An Ode to Women" at Rangi Gallery, where she had previously participated in the Ashley Collins Workshop. In July 2022, she also took part in an exhibition at the American Ambassador’s residence in Tanzania, the Torrent Exhibition at Nafasi Art Space in 2023, and Women Artist Art Week exhibition at Rangi gallery.
She has also recently had her solo exhibition “ALL ROADS LEAD HERE” at the Dar es Salaam center for architectural heritage.

N5BRA, also known as Nobra, began his career in illustration and has since expanded into painting. His distinctive name reflects a playful and intense experience, adding logic to his fragmented identity and allowing him to freely express his way of life. His work initially focused on the human body, gradually expanding to themes of self-portraiture and existentialism.

In his artwork, the body is a crucial element. The recurring female nudes are both a primary subject and a central theme of his pieces. Some interpret these nudes as objectifying and othering the female body or as tools to reveal sexuality linked to his pseudonym. However, in reality, his nudes are a form of self-portrait. The eroticism in his works stems from human existence and the anxiety it brings.

Through his art, N5BRA poses ontological questions to the audience. These questions have transitioned into a new medium, oil painting. The thick texture and multiple layers of oil paint demonstrate the artist's process of proving his existence within the void of meaninglessness. The oil medium captures the intersection of N5BRA’s experiential life and objective perspective. This desire for self-rootedness and validation stems from his experiences of anxiety without a clear object.

The figures in his works reflect his inner turmoil as he searches for purpose and direction in life. The intertwined curves are striking, and the organic structure is not arranged with a single purpose but emerges from countless strokes and accidental elements on the canvas, creating abstract forms.

The inner anxiety and life's struggles cannot be expressed through a simple plane or a single line. The generally dark tones, deep contrasts, expressionless gazes of the figures, and undulating lines and brushstrokes suggest a long-standing anxiety submerged in calmness. The emphasized dynamism and randomness are arranged according to N5BRA’s unique sense, evoking a life of chaos and stability, harmony and imbalance, progress and stagnation.

The nature in Jaewon Jung’s paintings encompasses not only nature, which grows on its own without human touch but also nature that has been changed and catered for human preferences and desires. To her, nature is not just an object of contemplation or nostalgia for the lost landscapes, but something that incorporates time, memories, desires, new environment, and experiences that transcend beyond the visible spectrum. Nature continues to change in the past and present, reflecting the relationship between individuals and society, nature and humans, and appears in the most ideal form of that era. As we go back and forth between what's real and what's ideal, we reflect on changes in our perception of nature and ask ourselves what is “true” landscape painting in this era. Beyond realistic and illusory descriptions, she is trying to reproduce nature more sensibly.

Luke Park creates a new beauty through the aesthetics of imperfection and minimal expression on an empty canvas. The artist, who majored in Business at Hongik University and received a master's degree in Arts and Cultural Management from the graduate institution, is claimed to have been interested in traditional Japanese culture for a long time. In particular, the Japanese dry garden culture, known as Zen Garden, influenced his current style of painting. Instead of incorporating incidental components in his works, he attempts to convey the meaning solely through the flow of brushstrokes. Exploring the true nature of life, the artist reveals via his works the necessary approach to life in our materialistic society. 

Woojoo’s paintings unfold into serene worlds filled with a sense of healing and tranquility. The recurring image of the “door” serves as a passage between reality and a realm beyond it, inviting viewers to imagine an experience that transcends familiar boundaries of time and space. Landscapes composed of forests, skies, clouds, and light evoke a sense of anticipation and wonder toward an unseen yet distinctly present world beyond reality. Through these dreamlike scenes, Woojoo creates a quiet refuge where viewers can momentarily step away from everyday life, encounter their inner emotions, and simply pause.

The artist records vanished neighborhoods and landscapes, translating memory and loss into painting. The city is reimagined not as a real place, but as a layered, emotional space shaped by time and perception. What remains is a self-portrait, constructed through the memory of a city that no longer exists.

Ho Sangun captures familiar yet strange scenes encountered in everyday life or while moving from place to place, recording them through photographs and drawings made with paper and colored pencils. Chosen for their ease and accessibility as recording tools, paper and colored pencils have become defining materials in Ho Sangun’s practice; they allow him to contain moments that might seem trivial or insignificant, sometimes spontaneously, sometimes with great delicacy, while pinpointing meaningful details within them.

Through the act of “drawing,” Ho Sangun has long communicated with the world—listening to others’ stories, living as an observer, and speaking about what he sees. If Hosanggeun Reproduction Center, a project he has sustained for over a decade, represents a way of remaining open to the world by “listening” to the stories of others, then drawing—his primary practice—functions as an act of “speaking.” Through drawing, he narrates what he has observed while drifting and moving through life, as well as what he has encountered by chance.

Gon Jeong depicts diverse forms of love through his paintings He is currently working in Seoul and gets inspiration from people's conversations and emotions. It is believed that it is completed through the process of being comforted and empathized in everyday human relationships, and the artist intends to convey a message of consolation to visitors through love-themed works.  

Sasha Yazov (b. 2000, Kaliningrad) is the young artist whose primary interest is in the gaming world. His point of reference is popular video games from the early 2000s. He uses gamepJay as an opportunity to make a screenshot of a uniquely created situation inside the game, and this becomes a painting. Using airbrush and stencils in the process, Yazov achieves a maximum likeness to the digital aesthetics, taking us back to a period of time when computer game culture was at its prime, and the internet still seemed a platform of freedom and unprecedented opportunity for everyone. 

Seongjoon Hong(b.1987) continuously investigates the properties of painting, particularly its mediums and materials. Through various techniques, Hong repeatedly depicts scenes layered with smooth, thin, or translucent membranes that subtly reveal the flat canvas surface and the materials composing it. His works feature delicately colored landscapes where light refracts through layered silhouettes, leaving behind only faint shadows where color and image have dissolved. In his Layers of the air series, for instance, Hong centers soap bubbles on the canvas or positions them just beyond the frame, focusing on their lightness and transparency. By zooming in on these surfaces, he distorts the landscape, allowing waves of projected light to transform his work into abstract paintings.

Hong holds both a BFA and MFA in Fine Arts from Hongik University in Seoul. He has held solo exhibitions including at SEOJUNG ART(Seoul & Busan, 2024), 68projects(Berlin, Germany, 2024), Prompt Project(Seoul, 2023), Galerie BHAK(Seoul, 2022), Pipe Gallery(Seoul, 2022) and Hakgojae Design Project Space(Seoul, 2020). He has also participated in various group shows, including at Art Space Hohwa(Seoul, 2024), Frieze No.9 Cork Street(London, UK, 2024), ThisWeekendRoom(Seoul, 2024), M5 GALLERY(Ginja, Japan, 2023), Art space Hohwa(Seoul, 2023), Galerie BHAK(Seoul, 2022), Seojung Art Center(Seoul, 2022), Koo House Museum(Yangpyeong, 2022), Ilwoo Space(Seoul, 2022), and UARTSPACE(Seoul, 2019). He was selected as a 2020 New Hero by Public Art Magazine and participated in the 68projects Residency(Berlin, Germany, 2023). His works are part of collections at the PARKSEOBO Foundation and Art Space Hohwa.

Edgar Plans (Madrid, 1977), categorized as the most popular Spanish contemporary artist,
grew up and is now based with his family in the northern Spanish town of Gijón. After
earning a degree in Art History from the University of Oviedo, Plans started to participate in
small exhibitions in local galleries. As of today, his works have been exhibited in Museums
such as the MOMA Museum in Moscow Russia, the Xiao Museum in Rizhao, China and the
S2A Museum in Seoul, South Korea.
Plans oil painting pushes boundaries and combines traditional techniques with modern
perspectives. He experiments with diverse styles, from realism to expressionism, creating
captivating narratives and evoking deep emotions. Through vivid colors, dynamic
compositions and innovative approaches he challenges conventions and invites the viewer
to engage in thought-provoking dialogues about identity, society and the human experience.

For Hyunmo Yang, drawing is an observational attempt of self-reflection that leads to a process of balancing. Fragments of daily experiences and emotions manifest as oscillating lines or dense shadowy spaces-proving the interstices of Yang’s painting and existence.


Born in 1981 Gifu, and raised in Aichi, Japan. At the age of twenty, he moved to California, U.S.A. to pursue an art career. He spent four years in the Bay area doing live painting, mural and participating in both solo exhibitions and art events. While living in San Francisco, he discovered a small group of avid bicyclists and became a bike messenger. It was through his experience as a courier that he found his essence of life and the conceptual basis for his art. In 2006, he returned to Japan. Initially he lived in Tokyo, where he continued to work as a messenger and became involved in the bicycle industry. He is involved in art curating, company/collaborative projects, and continues to exhibit his artwork world-widely. He currently resides in the countryside, Atsumi Peninsula, where he can ride a bike, surf, fishing and farming.

Mio Yamato (b. 1990, Japan) was born in Shiga, Japan, in 1990 and is currently based in Kyoto. She earned her MFA from Kyoto University of Art and Design. Yamato has participated in numerous exhibitions and projects, primarily in Japan, and has recently participated in an artist residency program at Casa Wabi in Mexico. She also had her solo show in Connecticut, USA. Her works have been acquired by museums in Japan, marking her as one of the promising emerging artists to watch. In the early stages of her career, Yamato developed the DOT and LINE series, focusing on the project composed of simple and minimal elements such as dots and lines. Her works reflect themes of life itself, drawing inspiration from the behavior of cells, the accumulation of geological layers, and the growth rings of trees.

Through meticulously balanced images that encourage prolonged attention, Sugimoto’s work focuses audience consideration on the ways in which humanity makes sense of itself. Sugimoto moved to Los Angeles in 1971, receiving his BFA from the Art Center College of Design in 1972. In 1974, he moved to New York, and became involved in the Minimal and Conceptual art scenes of the late 1970s. His best-known series, including Dioramas, Theaters, Seascapes, Portraits, Architecture, Conceptual Forms, and Lightning Fields draw heavily upon repetition, unifying disparate locations through shared compositions, and are characterized by use of long exposures, black and white film, and analog processes. In recent years, Sugimoto has begun to design architectural spaces that, like his photographs, use simplicity of form to focus attention on the mechanisms through which we understand the world.  

Sugimoto has had solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka (1989), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (1994), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2000), the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (2008), among many other venues. He has received many honors, including the Praemium Imperiale Award for Painting, Tokyo in 2009 and Officier de L’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, in Paris in 2013. In 2017, he was honored as a Person of Cultural Merit in Tokyo. His photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Gallery, London; and many others.

Goyona Jung is interested in the contemporary demand for exposure on social networks and image formation in human relationships via the Internet. She attempted to collaborate with media and painting after graduating from Hongik University with a degree in Painting. She worked in Korea as “Live Cam Painting”, which offers not only personal daily memories but also other people's daily lives in real time with the audience, and she has expanded her activities abroad to include a number of exhibitions. Through her works, the artist conveys a message about the issues of modern society and raises questions about the gap between modern people's loneliness and their edited daily lives. 

Bosco Sodi is an artist working globally, known for his densely textured paintings and objects with rich and vivid colors. His paintings are crystallized forms of arduous physical application; a constant cultivation of removing any hint of his own intent in the painting and populating the surface with the essence of material and fortuitous development. The artist works with the canvas laid down horizontally, applying a viscous mixture of soil, sawdust, glue and pigment to aggregate and then left to solidify over time. This process is a performance of sorts. That performance may last up to several months, with each accumulated strata of material testimony to the artist’s actions. Eventually, in that process, the layers cleft, and that is when the performance ends. From then on, all is left to time and nature’s forces. Cracks appear naturally on the surface and traces of material transforming from the material to the substrate to the whole of the artwork - a strikingly formal experiment in painting. Sodi’s works are included in various public and private collections, such as Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Kanazawa; Harvard Art Museums, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.


ERTHH
b. 2000, Bangkok, Thailand

Thanathorn Phattarathada, better known as ERTHH, graduated from the Faculty of Decorative Arts at Silpakorn University in 2022.
ERTHH is inspired by Thai master, Prateep Kochabua, known for his surrealist paintings, as well as inspired by his study and interest in Carravagio’s use of light and shadow, frequently experimenting with techniques of chiaroscuro.  He practiced still life compositions and then gradually started to integrate elements of his upbringing and passion for cartoons and illustrations, eventually forming his unique style and canvases.
Young and energetic, while exuding an air of maturity beyond his age, ERTHH creates pop surrealist paintings with a fresh take, illustrating a character that reflects on his own learning experiences.  Though the boy “Cheek” is expressed in a calm and quiet manner, he represents both the artist's highs and lows.  Beneath each detail is a story that is waiting to be unfolded.

Gyubin Seong’s work is based on his everyday joy, interest, and curiosity about his neighbours. She is developing his potential through various artistic endeavours while studying for a degree in fine art at the Seoul National University of Science and Technology. She finds comfort and love in the insignificant moments of daily life, reconstructing them with his mind. Instead of a formal description, she frequently transforms shapes to capture the mood and feelings of the moment. She brings warm memories to the audience through sensitive observation and expression that evokes the senses of sight, hearing, and scent.

Chris Ro (b.1976) is a graphic designer and artist. His work can be characterized for their kinetic, spatial, poetic and atmospheric properties. Born in Seattle, Chris went on to study architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. After working as both architect and designer he went on to study graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design. This mixed background continues to influence his explorations that fluctuate between both two and three dimensions. He is often at home when exploring concepts in motion and space and their relationship to the more static surfaces of graphic design. He recently finished research exploring concepts in Korean space at Seoul National University.
His work has been exhibited all over the world and is part of the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Die Neue Sammlung, the Seoul National University Museum of Art, Hongik University Museum of Art, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center and the National Hangeul Museum.

Ping Hatta (b. 1990), is an artist whose work explores the intersection of strength and softness within femininity. Inspired by personal narratives, nature, and everyday moments, she paints vibrant, surreal portraits that capture the nuances of womanhood—both its resilience and vulnerability.

Wood Grain

Trail

Red Depth

Mist over Moss

Snowscape

Ember Flow

Density of Warmth

What Connects us VII

What Connects us XV

What Connect us XIV

What Connects us XVII

What Connects us XIX

What Connects us XI

What Connects us XVIII

What Connects us II

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High 2

High 1

The Beginning of the Reconstruction

Reflection ⅴ

Summer Night Ⅱ

Umyeon Mountain Landscape

At Dusk

Summer Night Ⅰ

Dark Forest Ⅰ

Blooming and Flowing

Reflection ⅵ

Reflection ⅷ

Absorbing Landscape Ⅲ

A Heap

Summer-Breeze

Snowstorm Ⅰ

Snowstorm Ⅱ

An Invisible Dream

Under the Mountain Umyeon

Lingering Garden

Forest

Incomplete 不完全, Complete 完全

Nights of Seasons

Equilibrium

Equilibrium: Four Seasons Drawing

Seasons

Forest - 4 Seasons

Cosmos

Seasons (Series of 4)

Two Doors_The Sky

Where Life Blooms

A Flower of Life

Seed of Light_Bloom

Where Dreams Linger

Flower Boat

Seed of Light_Lighting the Way,

Toward the Moonlight

Holding the Light

Seed of Light_Discovery

Beyond the Green

The Tree Within

Traces of Warmth

Fruits of Light

Together

Stillness

First Light

Two Doors_The Deep

내 우주는 돌고 돌아서

어떤 도시조각

여기는 blue

Destiny

Freedom

Affection

taste

rest

i will be a star

encore

Belief

I miss you, but let's hang in there

Salvation

promise

Pigs

Untitled

Layers of the air 41

Touch the sky 27

Touch the sky 24

Touch the sky 22

Touch the sky 8

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Touch the sky 36

Touch the sky 28

Skatergirl

Glaciation 2.0

Rayito on the road

Making a mural

Dragon ball

Flexible Forms 07.02

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Flexible Forms 05.01

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Short Truth

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Flexible Forms 04.18

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Flexible Forms 12.03

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Flexible Forms 02.03

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Flexible Forms 12.27

Nature 03

Nature 02

Nature 01

When two people encounter each other, the past and the future become unimportant

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