Geunho Ko
For Geunho Ko, wandering without a destination allows him to feel present in a place. He is therefore interested in the process of wandering. For him, painting does not consist of working toward a predetermined image, but of continually searching for a reason to keep moving across the pictorial surface. He applies crack medium to the back of the canvas, which, as it dries, creates unpredictable cracks on the front. These cracks determine the conditions of his path.
He continues painting by following these chance occurrences, crossing them, or sometimes losing his way within them. Planning and chance, choice and deviation, compulsion and play recur, while fields of color and lines crystallize into terrains that are both unfamiliar and familiar, resembling maps or contour lines.
When the terrain that emerges evokes something in his memory, he gives it a nickname, much as we commemorate a tourist destination.
Geunho Ko (b. 1991) was born in Jeju and works between his home-town and Seoul. He graduated from the Department of Painting at Hongik University and received his master’s degree from Seoul National University of Science and Technology. His major solo exhi-bitions include Winding and Winding (X-large, 2025) and 2 (Museum Head, 2024). In 2026, he participated in Mass Landscape at APOpro-ject. In the same year, he presented the Art Factory Project on the oc-casion of Sempio’s 80th anniversary.
crackle medium, oil on canvas
112.6 × 74.2 cm
Crackle medium, oil on canvas 140×140 cm
Intan Kwak
Intan Kwak directly reflects in his works the pleasure of freely playing with art, much like the spontaneous and pure approach he had during his childhood. He varies the formal elements that compose his works in order to explore singular and stimulating imaginings. His recent works explore forms that can incorporate a playful dimension as both functional objects and sculptures.
He considers sculpture as a space that he engages with by gathering different temporalities and landscapes through form. Intan Kwak takes a strong interest in the materialization and expression of imagination.
He currently works in Paju (north of Seoul) and regularly organizes workshops in order to expand the field of his artistic practice. Making sculptures collectively with other people is an integral part of his art.
Intan Kwak (b. 1986) was born in Gwangju and is based in Seoul. He graduated from the Department of Environmental Sculpture at the University of Seoul and received his master’s degree in Sculpture from Hongik University. His major solo exhibitions include Sculpture Play (Hwanggeumhyang, 2026), Shape and Shape (Ulsan Art Museum, 2025), and Palette (K.O.N.G GALLERY, 2022). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Museum of Contem-porary Art Busan, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, SOMA Museum of Art, and Incheon Art Platform. He is currently represented by APOproject.
resin, acrylic
38(h)×57×25cm
Moon Joohye
Joohye Moon looks beyond the cultural codes and ideological representations conveyed by images to focus on the sensory conflicts evoked by the images themselves. She collects and recombines images, particularly those drawn from video games and religious paintings, as they construct specific worlds and narratives. She explores how the visual languages and meanings inherent in these images form new layers of perception.
Within a single pictorial surface, she juxtaposes images and signs from different contexts to create scenes that are both familiar and unfamiliar. Joohye Moon thus deconstructs and reconstructs existing systems of meaning.
Her work is based on the application of multiple layers of diluted pigment on jangji (traditional Korean paper), which absorbs liquid into its surface. Drawing on this material quality as well as the perspective of East Asian painting, she seeks to remove the ideas projected onto images in order to reveal their sensory dimension.
Joohye Moon (b. 1995) is based in Seoul. She completed a double major in Oriental Painting and Western Painting at Seoul National University. She subsequently received her master’s degree in Fine Arts, specializing in Painting and Two-Dimensional Art, from Korea National University of Arts. Her major exhibitions include Crosshair +++ (Kumho Museum of Art, 2026), selected as part of the 23rd Kumho Young Artist program; You are here at (WWNN, 2024); Splendor of the Sun (Galerie du Monde, 2023); and The World Redrawn: Ruptures and Continuities in Korean Painting (Ilmin Museum of Art, 2022).
watercolor on Korean paper
162.2 x 112.1 cm
watercolor on Korean paper
33 x 53 cm