All posts tagged: Soluna Fine Art

The Korean Narrative: Layers of Korean Aesthetics at Soluna Fine Art

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Choi Young-Wook, Ha Tae-Im, Kim Duck-Yong, Kim Hyun-Sik, Kim Keun-Tai, Woo Jong-Taek /The Korean Narrative: Layers of Korean Aesthetics /Mar 20 – May 17, 2025 /Opening: Thursday, Mar 20, 4pm – 8pm / Soluna Fine ArtG/F, 52 Sai StreetSheung Wan, Hong Kong Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm Art Central Hong KongBooth B3Central HarbourfrontMar 26 – 30, 2025 solunafineart.com Soluna Fine Art proudly presents The Korean Narrative: Layers of Korean Aesthetics, a group exhibition featuring six prominent Korean contemporary artists: Choi Young-Wook, Ha Tae-Im, Kim Duck-Yong, Kim Hyun-Sik, Kim Keun-Tai, and Woo Jong-Taek. Curated in collaboration with esteemed curator Dr. Ahn Hyun-Jung, this exhibition draws inspiration from her acclaimed book “Layers of Korean Beauty”, exploring the depth of Korean art and offers profound insights into the nation’s rich cultural tapestry. Viewers are invited to experience diverse artistic expressions that reflect timeless themes of harmony, craftsmanship, and nature, which are central to Korean aesthetics and cultural heritage.

Pneuma 숨결 at Soluna Fine Art

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Choi Young-Wook, Kim Duck-Yong, Kim Young-Hun, Lee Gee-JoPneuma 숨결 Oct 3 – Nov 9, 2024 Opening: Thursday, Oct 3, 6pm – 8pm Soluna Fine ArtG/F, 52 Sai StreetSheung Wan, Hong Kong Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm solunafineart.com Soluna Fine Art proudly presents Pneuma 숨결, a group show featuring four established Korean contemporary artists: Choi Young-Wook, Kim Duck-Yong, Kim Young-Hun and Lee Gee-Jo. The word pneuma originates from ancient Greek, meaning “breath”, and can also be interpreted as “spirit” or “soul”. This exhibition aims to break down the boundaries between art and materiality, embodying the essence of Korean aesthetics and sharing the connected breath between the works and the soul. Through Pneuma 숨결, each artists intertwine traditional culture with their personal expression, presenting rich and diverse artistic styles that collectively reflect the unique spirit of contemporary Korean art.

Bing Lee and Kim Ha-Young at Soluna Fine Art

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Bing Lee, Kim Ha-Young /Storyteller /Oct 28 – Dec 11, 2021 /Opening: Thursday, Oct 28, 5pm – 8pm Soluna Fine ArtGF, 52 Sai Street, Sheung WanHong Kong+852 2955 5166Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm http://www.solunafineart.comArtsy#solunafineart@solunafineart Soluna Fine Art is proud to present Storyteller, a dual exhibition by Bing Lee (b. 1948, New York-based Hong Kong artist) and Kim Ha-Young (b. 1983, London-based South Korean artist). It is both artists’ first exhibition with Soluna Fine Art. While the artists are primarily known for their distinct, witty, and iconographic visuals related to contemporary culture and social concerns, they come from different cultural and generational backgrounds. Bing Lee, who lived in Hong Kong before moving to New York, relays his personal myths and social concerns through his iconographic visual vocabulary, ‘Pictodiary’. While Kim Ha-Young, a Korean artist who continues to pursue her artistic practice in London, speaks about contemporary culture through multi-layered imageries that are inspired by the concept of augmented reality. The dual exhibition will feature paintings and drawings that facilitate dialogues about the contemporary psyche and will open the floor …

Kim Young-Hun 金永憲

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Diamond Mountain – Electronic Nostalgia / Soluna Fine Art / Hong Kong / Apr 3 – Aug 1, 2020 / Valencia Tong / With potted plants at the entrance and green chequered tiles on the second storey, the gallery space at Soluna Fine Art exuded an aura of playfulness. On view at the gallery was Korean artist Kim Young-Hun’s solo show Diamond Mountain – Electronic Nostalgia. The artist’s colour-saturated paintings blend the aesthetics of the analogue and the digital, the philosophical and the technological, and the historical and the futuristic. His abstract canvases explore the disorientation brought about by the blurred boundaries between the virtual, digital world and our real lives. The result is a mishmash of traditional Korean landscapes, glitchy geometrical patterns and Van Gogh-like oscillating lines, which recall interference on television screens. Although the paintings in the artist’s oeuvre allude to forms of technology that are ubiquitous in our lives, the artist also pays tribute to history, citing the Buddhist Diamond Sutra as his inspiration. To achieve enlightenment, one has to shatter illusions and free oneself from attachment, but the artist’s …