Gallery Yun Hosts Korea-China-Russia 'Year of the Horse' Exhibition Featuring 20 Young Artists
Creatrip Team
2 months ago
Gallery Yun in Insadong, Seoul presents a special "Year of the Horse" group exhibition through Jan 17, gathering 20 emerging artists—students recommended by portrait master Lee Won-hee from Keimyung University—alongside young painters from China and Russia. The show uses the horse (말) as a symbolic motif for hope and leap forward into 2026, featuring works that blend strong draftsmanship from Lee's realist training with varied cultural sensibilities: Russian brushwork and soft tones, Chinese realistic-symbolic lyricism, and Korean explorations of emotion and pictorial imagination. Mythical horses like cheollima (천리마) and jeoktoma (적토마) signify rapid achievement, unicorns and white horses purity and luck, while the heavenly horse (천마) represents vitality and recovery. To broaden access and support new talent, Gallery Yun adopts bold fixed prices—student works at 500,000 KRW and alumni/professor pieces at 1,000,000 KRW—aiming to encourage public engagement and investment in emerging artists.
