Hakgojae Gallery
B2F, 48-4, Samcheong-ro, Jongno District, Seoul
Hakgojae Gallery explores the transformation of artistic perception and modes of distribution within the digital environment, joining this showcase with its long-standing experience of connecting tradition and contemporaneity, the local and the global. Since its opening in 1988, the gallery has embodied the meaning of its name—“learning from the old to create the new”—by opening a space where East and West, past and future intersect. OUM Jeongsoon’s Faceless Elephant brings together steel and mesh structures with three projectors that intersect images across its surface, creating a perceptual field where material and video converge. This sculptural experiment reveals the threshold where traditional media and digital environments meet, prompting reflection on how works exist and circulate. Through this, Hakgojae Gallery highlights how digital environments transform artistic perception and experience, and how such practices may be incorporated into market and institutional frameworks.
Hakgojae Gallery has been leading the Korean art market by holding numerous exhibitions since its opening in 1988. The gallery’s name derives from the saying, “to review the old to learn the new” in the Analects of Confucius.
With this motto, Hakgojae Gallery has been focusing on connecting both the old and the new and has been serving as an interchange station where the past and the present intersect, East and West communicate, and regions of the world interconnect. Hakgojae Gallery is always looking for artists who are able to present their astonishing insights through their practices. The gallery wishes to add hope and spread the pleasure of art and its insight to the world by sharing moments of joy and sorrow with artists who continue to shape the future.
Hakgojae Gallery explores the transformation of artistic perception and modes of distribution within the digital environment, joining this showcase with its long-standing experience of connecting tradition and contemporaneity, the local and the global. Since its opening in 1988, the gallery has embodied the meaning of its name—“learning from the old to create the new”—by opening a space where East and West, past and future intersect. OUM Jeongsoon’s Faceless Elephant brings together steel and mesh structures with three projectors that intersect images across its surface, creating a perceptual field where material and video converge. This sculptural experiment reveals the threshold where traditional media and digital environments meet, prompting reflection on how works exist and circulate. Through this, Hakgojae Gallery highlights how digital environments transform artistic perception and experience, and how such practices may be incorporated into market and institutional frameworks.
Hakgojae Gallery has been leading the Korean art market by holding numerous exhibitions since its opening in 1988. The gallery’s name derives from the saying, “to review the old to learn the new” in the Analects of Confucius.
With this motto, Hakgojae Gallery has been focusing on connecting both the old and the new and has been serving as an interchange station where the past and the present intersect, East and West communicate, and regions of the world interconnect. Hakgojae Gallery is always looking for artists who are able to present their astonishing insights through their practices. The gallery wishes to add hope and spread the pleasure of art and its insight to the world by sharing moments of joy and sorrow with artists who continue to shape the future.