Walk the Anguk Station Art Route: Young Artists Offer Open-Ended Views
Creatrip Team
23 days ago
Seoul’s Anguk Station area is hosting fresh group and solo shows by emerging Korean artists, inviting visitors to enjoy works without hunting for a single “right” interpretation. At Gallery Hyundai’s new wing, the group exhibition “Sauve Qui Peut” (from Jean-Luc Godard’s film title) gathers eight artists born in the 1980s–90s. Works are loosely arranged by floor — themes include movement and liminality, women’s abstraction and sensory language, and defiant subjects — spanning sculpture, installation, abstract and performative painting, textile-based pieces and queer-led perspectives. Highlights include Kim Ju-young’s mixed-media sculptures using aircraft and automotive parts with stained glass (suggesting mobility and cultural memory); Ahn Hyun-jung’s stitched fabric paintings that bring domestic sewing into fine art; and Han Sun-woo’s AI-informed paintings. The show runs through July 26. Nearby at Arario Gallery, two solo exhibitions run until August 15: Lee Ji-hyun’s “Dream-Book: Noisy Void,” a three-floor series of 22 paintings organized like chapters of a fictive illuminated manuscript that fuse memory and imagination (inspired by a Flemish Book of Hours); and Lim Su-beom’s ceramics and paintings featuring mirage-like golden dragons and hybrid guardian beasts drawn from Goguryeo mural motifs, questioning boundaries between protector and monster. Both exhibitions emphasize sensory experience, layered memory, and mixing historical reference with contemporary practice.
