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Park's Land 27, 2023
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Park's Land 1, 2022
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
《Rebellious possibility》, 2025.02.07 – 2025.03.24, Yeol Jeong Gallery
Yeoljeong Gallery will present 《Rebellious Possibility》 from February 7 to March 4, 2025. Known for constructing a distinctive visual language through diverse media and experimental approaches, Park explores the fractures and contradictions embedded in contemporary society. This exhibition introduces a new body of work that further expands his ongoing inquiries.
2025.02.05
Exhibitions
《When Ero·Gro·Nonsense Combines Nonlinearly》, 2023.05.11 – 2023.05.31, Arting Gallery
From the 2023 work Park’s Land 27—where the veil encircling the Virgin Mary's head meets the protruding snout of a wolf placed squarely at the center—I begin to trace the artist’s aesthetic clues. The recent series titles, announced as periodical themes, are gathered under “Park’s Land.”
2023.05.11
Exhibitions
《Myth, Representation of the Era》, 2022.04.08 – 2022.04.26, Artertain
Before written history, the birth of a nation was often mythologized through stories that carried the desires, hopes, and survival instincts of the era. And within these myths, transformation is always present. In essence, for a new polity to emerge, something of the old had to shift. The newly formed state then needed a narrative that could encourage its people and affirm their will to live well.
2022.04.08
Exhibitions
《Drowsy Floating》, 2019.12.20 – 2020.01.21, Artertain
Seven billion… perhaps more. That is the current estimate of humanity’s population. Seven billion people inhabit this Earth. But do we even wonder exactly how many there are? For now, the most immediate reality is simply that I exist, living my life in this moment. Perhaps all that my life pursues—or is already pursuing—are the easiest, most accessible ways of living. Seven billion people coexist on Earth, each carving out territories, or systems.
2019.12.20
Exhibitions
《Ordinary People》, 2011.08.20 – 2011.09.30, Gallery Absinthe
Gallery Absinthe will present Park Jung Hyuk’s solo exhibition 《Ordinary People》 starting Saturday, August 20. As suggested by the seven years of preparation behind 《Ordinary People》, the exhibition reflects the artist’s determined ambition to reframe the world through his own visual lens.
2011.08.20
Activities
Activities
Park Jung Hyuk × Yeol Jeong Gallery — “Park’s Land 37” Limited-Edition Umbrella
Our Art Store collections are artworks in their own right—objects shaped by the artist’s hand, carrying their sensibility and unique creative voice. Produced in limited quantities, each item holds strong collectible value while offering a way to bring art meaningfully into everyday life. Discover a special edition available exclusively at Yeol Jeong Gallery.
2025.02.07
Activities
2023 Drawing-Growing: From the Start of Every Artwork, Growing from Drawing!
《Drawing-Growing》 spotlights the earliest stages of artworks—the drawings, sketches, and initial ideas—and presents them as works available for purchase. Through the experience of acquiring these “starting points of artworks,” many art enthusiasts grow into collectors, while sharing in the experience of “growing through drawing.”
2023.06.10
Activities
Park Jung Hyuk Presents His Works at “ARTBUY”
Through a wide range of series and media, Park Jung Hyuk questions the fixed assumptions, habits of thought, and structural contradictions embedded in contemporary society. People often say that we see only as much as we know—but more precisely, we can see no more than what we already know. Viewers who interpret a work solely through familiar, internalized frameworks inevitably encounter the limits of their own vision. With bold and incisive approaches, Park aims to pose new questions about our era and its conditions, seeking to step outside the narrow role that society often imposes on artists.
2022.11.11
Activities
Discovering New Local Artists and Encouraging Creative Spirit
Many artists reside in Goyang City. However, the support programs and infrastructure for these artists are far from satisfactory. Kim Chan-dong, director of the Arko Art Center, said, “Although the art museums and performance facilities are not poor compared to other regions, considering the number and level of resident artists, the environment is definitely inadequate.”
2009.10.13
Activities
KMDC (Korea Mix Dog Contest) Project
This performance was presented in November 2004 at the 5th Gwangju Biennale, inside Exhibition Hall 5, and was documented throughout the exhibition period through video and photography. For this project, the artist created a fictional organization called KMDC (Korea Mix Dog Club) and carried it out in collaboration with two animal-welfare groups — 〈Areum-Pum〉 and 〈Bodumi〉, who work
2004.11.30
Writings
Criticisms
Between the Fascination of Metamorphosis and the Drift of Imagery
A single phrase, like a single photogram, must be capable of delivering a rich range of visual stimuli within an unceasing flow of motion. (…) Every verb on every page appears in the present tense, as if all events were unfolding right before our eyes. New incidents rush in, and all distance between one and the next collapses into immediacy.
2025.05.20
Criticisms
Flowing Memory: An Alternative Language on Disciplined Creativity
The fluttering silver foil you are looking at is a “troublesome meta-material” completely detached from the traditional solidity of canvas or hanji. In this exhibition, Park situates these chaotic, sensorial works within the mutable conditions of an alternative space in Mullae-dong. Interpreting concealed structures of power through an uncanny sensibility, the works unsettle our habituated, disciplined mode
2019.09.20
Statements
7 Vertices
7 vertices is a work that was exhibited in the group show 《Faces We Want to See》 at the Lee Han-yeol Memorial Hall (October 7–November 30, 2015). The exhibition selected six individuals who had been sacrificed during the process of democratization or in popular struggles for livelihood, paired each with one of six artists, and presented their lives through each artist’s distinct mode of expression.
2015.10.07
Criticisms
A Protest against Silent Inaction
Martin Niemöller, a theologian and Lutheran pastor during World War II, was initially a conservative and rather passive observer of the Nazis. What finally broke his silence and caused him to protest against Hitler was the Nazi persecution of the Christian Church. Niemöller later confessed his deep regrets about not speaking up and thus allowing countless victims to perish in the hands of the Nazis.
2011.08.20
Criticisms
Resupination
A camera lens captures and transmits the image of an object, projecting it onto film. This primary function is something we’re all generally familiar with. Yet in the process, the lens also performs a sly trick: it flips the object upside down. This inversion, known as “Resupination”, originally comes from botany, where it describes an organ positioned opposite to its natural orientation.
2004