Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒
Twin Owls Beneath the Night Lamp
(雙鴞夜燈圖)

Gallery Belle Vie takes its name from the French phrase La Belle Vie, meaning “the beautiful life.”

Beyond its literal translation, Belle Vie embodies a way of living grounded in warmth, generosity, and a sense of grace in everyday moments.

Established in Seoul in January 2020, Gallery Belle Vie held its first exhibition in September 2021, and has since presented a series of exhibitions that naturally weave contemporary art into life and space. By curating a dynamic range of exhibitions each year, the gallery seeks to engage with the current moment of contemporary art while discovering and highlighting new perspectives from artists both in Korea and abroad.

We believe that when art dissolves the boundary between daily life and personal space, life expands beyond routine and opens into an intimate realm of perception. Gallery Belle Vie aims to be a companion in that journey—guiding viewers to discover their own aesthetic language and to broaden the horizons of their inner world.

Gallery Belle Vie

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒ Twin Owls Beneath the Night Lamp (雙鴞夜燈圖)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒
Chochungdo (草蟲圖)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒ Chochungdo (草蟲圖)

Dream Journey Landscape
(臥遊⼭⽔))_Gear Second

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔))_Gear Second

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒
New Peach Blossom Spring
(新武陵桃源圖) (8-2)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒ New Peach Blossom Spring (新武陵桃源圖) (8-2)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒
New Peach Blossom Spring
(新武陵桃源圖) (8-3)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒ New Peach Blossom Spring (新武陵桃源圖) (8-3)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒
New Peach Blossom Spring
(新武陵桃源圖) (8-1)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒ New Peach Blossom Spring (新武陵桃源圖) (8-1)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒
Together with Spring (偕春圖)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒ Together with Spring (偕春圖)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒
Early Blossoms (早花圖)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒ Early Blossoms (早花圖)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒
Baesanimsu (背⼭臨⽔圖)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒ Baesanimsu (背⼭臨⽔圖)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒
Guardian Tiger (家守虎圖)

Dream Journey Landscape (臥遊⼭⽔) ‒ Guardian Tiger (家守虎圖)

Materiality and repetition shape a sense of duration, expanding painting beyond image-making into an experiential structure of time.


Space776 exhibits early to mid-career artists who work in a variety of mediums ranging from live multimedia performance art to traditional oil painting. The gallery accommodates artists from around the globe, taking their works to local and international art fairs such as Volta New York, Volta Basel, Art Miami, Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, and Art Busan. 
Space776 was founded in Bushwick, Brooklyn in 2013. In 2020, the gallery relocated to its current residence at 37-39 Clinton Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Space776 also opened a location in Seoul, South Korea in 2020 in accordance with the gallery’s mission to promote the international exchange between local New York artists and the Korean artistic sphere. 

Space776

Butt Kiss

The work focuses on movement itself rather than a destination, transforming the canvas into a space where memories continuously emerge and dissolve.


Stream Tree

Through layered materials and repetitive actions, the painting becomes a condensed record of time, gesture, and lived experience.


Vlolent Tree

Traces of accumulation and erasure create a shifting landscape of perception, encouraging viewers to connect their own experiences to the work.


Multiple temporalities overlap within the surface, forming a visual field where past and present converge through memory and sensation.


X-ray

Let It shine

Let It Shine 3

Tae Woo reinterprets traditional Korean landscape painting through a contemporary sensibility, grounding his practice in wayu (臥遊)—“traveling while lying down”—to paint landscapes of memory and imagination rather than literal scenery.

His recurring motif, Gasuho (家守虎)—a “home-guarding tiger”—carries a Korean folk-painting (minhwa) spirit, echoing the folk-inflected tiger imagery recently popularized in Netflix’s animated film KPop Demon Hunters. Birds and children symbolize family and intimacy, reflecting on ways of living and the warmth of relationships.

He gained public recognition after winning KBS2’s No Money No Art (2022), presented HOHO Garden at Gana Art Park Museum (2025), and has released NFT drops via Upbit.

He works with a variety of materials such as wood, stone, and thread, exploring themes of art and life, the ecology of nature, and the cyclical passage of time.