Exhibition Information

			Doosan Gallery Seoul will host "Dusan Art Lab Exhibition 2021" from Jan. 13, 2021, to Feb. 20, 2021, as the first exhibition in 2021. "Dusan Art Lab" is a program that Doosan Art Center has been working on since 2010 to discover and support new artists in the art and performance fields. Doosan Art Lab in the field of art changed the time of the exhibition from biennial to annual exhibitions this year and selected five artists under the age of 35 through a public contest. The artists selected for the Doosan Art Lab Exhibition 2021 will showcase various works, including paintings, photos, and installations by Kim Se-eun, Park Jung-hye, Oh Yeon-jin, Oh Hee-won, and Lee Jun-ah. 

The "Dusan Art Lab" contest was not about selecting writers with a specific media or theme, but rather an individual artist who judged that the working world was remarkable and worth continuing to look at. In this year's case, the five finalists were all women and had something in common that flat surfaces such as paintings, photographs, and prints were treated as their main medium. 

Kim Se-eun discovers a small space in the city and reveals the senses acquired by recognizing it with her body in the language of painting. Park Jeong-hye observes the relationship between nature and human beings and suggests the current landscape reinterpreted by the halting screen called "canvas" and the quality of paint. Oh Yeon-jin captures the floating image and its physical properties through experiments with photography using negative film printing methods. Oh Hee-won projects non-visual natural phenomena such as invisible airflow and the spread of light on the canvas in a light and delicate way that resembles them. Lee Jun-ah embodies regularity and free pictorial expressions found in fractal images as overlapping and heavy spaces.

On the other hand, their works tend to pursue different directions but have some interlocking points, preferring to go beyond, transmitted or secondary in looking at a phenomenon. 

Park Jung-hye and Oh Hee-won treat light as a natural phenomenon but present it in color, pattern, and semi-abstract form, and Oh Hee-won's eyes are different, paying attention to the lightness, transparency, and concrete form of the light-penetrated windows. Meanwhile, Oh Yeon-jin's window image was reflected in the photo paper as artificial lighting penetrated the canvas during the printing process. While Kim Se-eun focuses on expressing visual interpretations of space that exists and experiences in the formative language, Lee Jun-ah's virtual space was first drawn on the screen and then improvised in the process of moving it to the canvas. 

The exhibition was organized to discover and infer the commonalities and individuality among these writers. Through the "Dusan Art Lab Exhibition 2021, we will be able to discover a variety of interesting attitudes of up-and-coming artists who share the same generation. 

Kim Se-eun (b. 1989) graduated from Ewha Woman's University with a bachelor's degree in Western painting and a master's degree in painting from the Royal College of Arts. He held individual exhibitions at Kumho Museum of Art (2020, Seoul, Korea), One & Jay Gallery (2019, London, England), and Marlboro Gallery (2018, Seoul, Korea), Art Center (2018, Seoul, Korea), Weekend (2018, Seoul, Korea), and many other groups participated in the exhibitions. 

Park Jeong-hye (b. 1989), a graduate of the Department of Painting at Hongik University College of Fine Arts, hosted individual exhibitions at Whisle (2021, Seoul, Korea), Onground 2 (2017, Seoul, Korea), Archive Spring (2016, Seoul, Korea). Major group exhibitions participated include Deoksugung (2020, Seoul, Korea), The Scrap (2019, Seoul, Korea), Seoul Museum of Art (2018, Seoul, Korea), Gwacheon National Museum of Contemporary Art (2017, Gwacheon, Korea), and Kukje Gallery (2017, Seoul, Korea).

Oh Yeon-jin (b. 1993) graduated from Seoul National University with a bachelor's degree in visual design and a specialist in the department of plastic arts at the Korea National University of Arts. They held individual exhibitions at the Songeun Art Cube (2020, Seoul, Korea), exhibition halls (2019, Seoul, Korea), gallery 175 (2020, Seoul, Korea), Daelim Art Museum (2020, Seoul, Korea), Hite Collections (2019, Seoul, Korea), SeMA Warehouse (2018, Seoul, Korea) and others.


Oh Hee-won (b. 1986) graduated from Hongik University with a bachelor's degree in painting and Seoul National University of Science and Technology and held individual exhibitions at ONE FOUR (2019, Seoul, Korea) and Gallery Factory (2014, Seoul, Korea). P21 (2020, Seoul, Korea), The Scrap (2019, Seoul, Korea), Security 1942 (2018, Seoul, Korea), Space 413 (2018, Seoul, Korea), and Space 413 (2018, Seoul, Korea). 

Lee Jun-ah (b.1986) graduated from Ewha Woman's University with a bachelor's degree in Western painting, a master's degree in Western studies at the same school, and a master's degree