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InnerSpace#26 — Kim Jeong-han Solo Exhibition · 2026 · Historical listing

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Dates
Sep 12, 2026 — Oct 24, 2026
Place
Pill Gallery · Pill Gallery, 24 UN Village-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
Admission at the time
Free
Facts last checked
2026-10-17
First preserved here
2026-10-11

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Pill Gallery presents Kim Jeong-han’s solo exhibition InnerSpace#26 from September 12 to October 24. In an era of rapid image consumption and AI-driven acceleration in creation and disappearance, the exhibition explores the meaning and possibilities of painting as a traditional medium. Kim uses written characters as units of painting, building pictorial space through their structures, the spaces around them and repeated layering and covering. On the canvas, characters lose their linguistic meaning and become lines, planes, rhythm and density. Vertical brushstrokes and the raised and recessed texture of acrylic gouache create layers of time. The artist has long explored the relationship between filling and emptying. By writing sentences over one another, turning the canvas in four directions and repeating vertical brushstrokes, he places colour only on raised areas while leaving recesses empty. Rather than conveying a simple symbol, the repeated strokes hold traces of time. Recent work introduces faces, characters and images from existing paintings through fragmentation and recombination, exploring possibilities among writing, empty space and surface. Art critic Masaaki Kambara describes the layered paintings as a reminder that traditional painting remains alive, with the substantial presence of something that does not vanish in an instant. Critic Seo Myeong-ri explains that, whereas empty space in Western painting may be an unpainted area, for Kim it is an important element that can mark a beginning, a pause or a reversal. Kim describes his work as looking at sensations that have not yet become words through repeated drawing, covering, leaving and emptying, rather than presenting a single answer. He names this space InnerSpace. The exhibition invites visitors to step away from the age of speed and experience painting’s material depth and the sensations within its empty spaces. Exhibition: Kim Jeong-han Solo Exhibition, InnerSpace#26. Dates: September 12 (Saturday)–October 24 (Saturday), 2026. Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11:00–18:00. Closed Sundays, Mondays and public holidays; open as usual on September 26 and October 3. Venue: Pill Gallery, Exhibition Rooms 1 and 2, 24 UN Village-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul.

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