Woohyeok Kang explores the relationship between economic systems and personal lives, rooted in his experience of family dissolution during the 1997 Asian financial crisis in South Korea. In Lunar Real Estate (Post Territory Ujeongguk, 2018), he critically examined the modern notion of ownership and its constraints by auctioning land on the moon. Alas, Woes Is Me (2019) used metaphorical fiction to address inheritance taking precedence over mourning. In Where Could I Exchange Currency? (Keep in Touch Seoul, 2022), he presented installations and object-based works using currency and introduced his own currency for artwork transactions, satirizing the speculative nature of cryptocurrency.
His major group exhibitions include Protect Me From What I Want - Art, the Failed Myth (Seoul National University Museum of Art, 2024) and No Space, Just a Place: Heterotopia (Daelim Museum, 2020). He was also awarded the Artist Support Fund of the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture in 2018.
Education
2015 Drop out Diplome National d'Art, Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Art de Bourges, Bourges, FR
Solo Exhibition
2022 Where Could I Exchange Currency?, Keep in Touch Seoul, Seoul, KR
2019 One hundred at the least, Space illi, Seoul, KR
2018 Luna Real Estate, Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, KR
Group Exhibition
2024 Protect Me From What I Want - Art, the Failed Myth, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2022 PACK WEEK 2022, Platform-L, Seoul, KR
2021 If put you in the dark, Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, KR
2020 No Space, Just A Place, Daelim Museum, Seoul, KR
2019 The Stars Below, Sansumunhwa, Seoul, KR
Awards
2019 Grand prize for The 1st Eulji Art Fair Prize, Seoul, KR
2018 Awarded the Artist Support Fund, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, KR
