The artist explores the relationship between space, material, and perception, approaching familiar surroundings from a shifted point of view, while forms drawn from nature and everyday life undergo subtle transformations, shaping the boundary between reality and imagination.

Within material experiments such as traditional embroidery, layers of time and emotional tension quietly accumulate, leaving the works to resonate not through explanation, but as spaces for contemplation.

Since its establishment in 1994, Gallery Simon has been committed to presenting exhibitions that reflect the evolving currents of contemporary art. The gallery hosts solo exhibitions by its represented artists—such as Sangkyoon Noh, Hyungkyung Bae, Airan Kang, Sunmyoung Choi, Sowon Kwon, Joohyun Kim, Shinil Kim, Jayoung Ku, Changwon Lee, Taii Kim and Jieun Kim—alongside group exhibitions including "Arrival", which introduces emerging artists active in both local and international scenes, "Digital Transitions", showcasing leading global media artworks, and curated projects led by invited curators.

Through its exhibitions, Gallery Simon aims to illuminate each artist’s creative vision, artistic integrity, and reflections of the contemporary moment while exploring new aesthetic approaches within the field of contemporary art. The gallery also works to elevate the presence of Korean contemporary art by maintaining active collaborations with major museums and galleries worldwide and by supporting artists with strong potential and distinct voices.

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Seo Jaejung’s work begins with translating perception and formative sensibility shaped by spatial experience into visual language, where architectural elements such as columns, stairs, and arches unfold as variations of space emerging from a single line. Between deconstruction and recomposition lies a tension of psychological forms suspended between completeness and incompleteness- a multilayered spatial sensibility where reality and unreality, reason and emotion intersect.

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CDA is a gallery stands for ‘Creative’, ‘Discovery’, and ‘Appreciation’. The gallery mainly presents creative activities in various fields of contemporary visual arts in the form of exhibitions. CDA exhibition mainly focuses on paintings but subjects to all kinds of genres and mediums such as sculpture, prints, photography, animation, and video. The form of the exhibitions is also balanced, with a mix of solo and group exhibitions, as well as art fairs and collaborative projects. We sincerely hope that our activities will serve as a spark for the realization of meaningful projects for creators(artists) and an opportunity for audiences to expand their inspiration and collecting.

Helix

In the works of Son Jeong-gi (b. 1991), nature unfolds as a space of overwhelming scale. A single small figure set within vast landscapes reveals both the minuteness of human existence and the profound depth of contemplation that becomes possible within silence. Standing before his paintings, viewers experience an inner expansion borne from the stillness of nature.

Amid an era of noise and information overload, Son guides us toward recovering silence, calm, and inner reflection. Viewers step into the scene as the lone figure, walking through quietness and entering a state of contemplation. That tranquility empties the self, opening a space that can be filled again—a space where new insight and subtle movement emerge even within a moment that appears completely still.

"Objecthood" is a concept that emerged from minimalism, often translated as "objecthood" or "materiality." It aims to strip objects of unnecessary elements, focusing on the essence of the object and the inherent properties of the material, to present works that are non-imitative and non-representational.

Based in Busan, Objecthood Gallery seeks to introduce the artistic worlds of emerging domestic and international artists who understand and interpret this pure concept of objecthood. The gallery also serves as a new platform to offer moments of relaxation and leisure in our modern lives.


OBJECTHOOD

Winter Forest

Songsin T. works at the crossroads of literature and painting, creating graphic novels where storytelling and strong visual expression come together. He handles both the writing and the drawings himself, and even oversees the entire printing process. Over the past twenty years, many of his works, including Nine Lives, Beansprout and Firehead, and Bobby Swingers, have been reprinted multiple times. His literary work Twilight Stained was also shortlisted for the 2021 S.E.A. Write Award. His publications have been introduced not only in Thailand, but also in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan.

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Lost Bluesky

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 SONGSIN T. works at the crossroads of literature and painting, creating graphic novels where storytelling and strong visual expression come together. He handles both the writing and the drawings himself, and even oversees the entire printing process. Over the past twenty years, many of his works, including Nine Lives, Beansprout and Firehead, and Bobby Swingers, have been reprinted multiple times. His literary work Twilight Stained was also shortlisted for the 2021 S.E.A. Write Award. His publications have been introduced not only in Thailand, but also in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan.

Whispering Of The Fireflies

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Haven

Rolling Oge

The landscapes of Kwon So-young (b. 1986) carry traces of time and the lingering resonance of memory. She explores the subtle sensibilities that arise between one presence and another, and the quiet tremors that exist beyond visible form. Within the interactions of ink, water, and hanji, intention meets chance to create layered depth, capturing the breath of what remains even within what has disappeared. Her landscapes portray nature as both a site of memory and a record of emotion, where stillness is not a frozen moment but the movement of time that flows and leaves its mark.

Breath Between

Jaehyuck Han creates new forms of painting by transforming traditional Eastern materials like Hanji and Hwasunji into his unique visual language. His work deconstructs and reconfigures familiar elements, generating unfamiliar images that provoke deep reflection. Through this process of transformation, Han invites dialogue with the inner self, opening pathways to new possibilities and creative potential.

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I've always had an interest in inventing my own devices and to use them in installations, creating the overall atmosphere of the space which based on reinterpretation of surroundings. These things are specifically revealed through experiments where I attempt to induce experience that stimulate and renew the sense and movement of the body, the emotion or psychological state that are a recreation of ambiguous topic; which all occur by being confronted with the overall effect of the arrangement of sight, tactile sensation, hearing, or materials that can be felt specifically and touched.

Especially, the psychological suspense left from the experience of personal and mixed situations and gestures from unfamiliar environment are relieved by leaving traces of such suspense through the object made from neutral pieces of materials.

These mediators borrow their form from familiar objects such as images derived from nature itself, but they become ambiguous through slight distortion. At the same time, they become my storytelling tools equipped with my intentions, and the essence can be found as I contemplate the duality of the image that is seen among the exploration of defining the subtle differences between reality and imagination.

In recent years I have been fascinated with embroidery since it represents such a precise accumulation of time and effort. I have studied Korean embroidery skills to depict the surrealism of the subject matter – those uncanny images derived from nature itself.
As my primary discipline has been that of the sculptor, the study of material and materiality has always been a fascination. Rediscovering the use of traditional skills and sharing their primordial characteristics, are often the basis of my work.

When I look at the primitive samplers of old or even the ancient medieval embroideries, I feel an absolute identification with the person who worked the piece. My imagination wanders through their state of mind and their circumstances – their desires, their passions and fears. As I produce my own works I like to think they might trigger the same sense of inquiry inspiring a new audience with wonder and intrigue.

Seo Jaejung’s work explores the translation of perception and spatial sensibility into visual form. Drawing from architectural environments—described as “a space within a space”—she uses elements such as columns, stairs, and arches as mediators that generate layered visual associations. Her compositions often begin with a single line and unfold through the deconstruction and recomposition of architectural structures, revealing psychological forms that exist between completeness and incompleteness. These processes create an “architectural psychological space” where reality and unreality, reason and emotion, intention and chance coexist. Through such multilayered structures, Seo seeks to develop a painterly language that blurs the boundary between two- and three-dimensional space, offering an expanded experience that opens onto another realm.

Uncertain Organic Space

n the paintings of Son Jung-gi (b. 1991), nature unfolds as a space of overwhelming scale. A single small figure within the vast landscape reveals how minute human existence can be, and yet how profoundly one is able to contemplate within such quietude. In his works, the viewer encounters an expansion of the inner self through the stillness that nature affords.

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