Archive
Works
Park's Land
Park's Land 17-Studies on Metamorphosis, 2022
Park's Memory
Park's Memory 12, 2019
Park's Land
Park's Land 39, 2024
Muscle Memory Drawings
Muscle Memory Drawings 241007, 2024
Park's Land
Park's Land 18, 2022
Exhibitions
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
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
《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
《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
Activities
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
Activities
[YouTube] Sensibility Wrapped in Silver Foil [Yoon Giwon’s Art Talk] EP.22 | The Fluidity of Memory – Park Jung Hyuk
Driven by a crusader-like conviction, Park Jung Hyuk persistently embarks on new artistic trials, drawing us into the ever-shifting terrain of fluid memory.
2019.11.01
Activities
[YouTube] [Artist Talk]《When Ero·Gro·Nonsense Combines Nonlinearly》
A conversation with the artist, held at Arting Gallery.
2023.05.21
Activities
[YouTube] Park Jung Hyuk《When Ero·Gro·Nonsense Combines Nonlinearly》, (2023.05.11~05.31 Arting) Critique
Ban Ijeong's《When Ero·Gro·Nonsense Combines Nonlinearly》Crtitique
2023.05.14
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
Writings
Statements
Same=Different
This work uses the phonetic and cosmological principles of Hangul’s invention, and its process of development into a global writing system through discrimination, contempt, hardship, and overcoming since its creation in the fifteenth century, together with Koi’s Law, which states that the size of an individual is determined by its environment, to show—through a found-footage technique—why Hangul has come to be positioned within global culture at this moment.
2020
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
Statements
Ordinary People
This work, originally presented in Park Jung Hyuk’s third solo exhibition 《Ordinary People》 (August 20–September 30, 2011), consists of five sound-interlinked videos that play in random order. Each video is a dramatized montage created by splicing together scenes from more than fifty Eastern and Western films and television dramas.
2011
Criticisms
Malocclusion
1. Against a white wall, a domestic camcorder is mounted on a tripod. Through the camcorder’s small screen, we see a person training dogs. The video lightly condenses a training process that unfolded over several months.
2004
Criticisms
Rebellious Possibility_Transformation, Searching for Origins and the Process of Deconstruction
Park Jung Hyuk has long focused on how humans sense and perceive the world surrounding them — how they are governed by it — and how they reproduce it. As the artist himself states that his work is “a questioning of taken-for-granted logic, stereotypes, structural problems, and contradictions,”
April, 2025