Doosan Gallery's new exhibition 'The Next Generation' aims to explore Korean contemporary art of today and predict tomorrow of it through art works of young artists born between late 1970s to 1980s, Minae Kim, Na Kim, Jungki Beak, Lee Wan, Boyun Jang, Sojung Jun, Ji Hyun Jung and Jaemin Cha.

Recently, development of internet and mass media, and active overseas experiences make the artist encouter contemporary art of all over the world in real-time. Under these circumstances, the artists show a tendency that expressing sensitive social issues in a subjective and individual way. Also, they contain unique esthetics in a process and context as a result of work.

Sojun Jun thinks that art and life are essentially same, so that shows continuity getting behind two gaps in a dramatize technique. Lee Wan talks about the hidden side of the world as appropriation of an objet's metaphorical and symbolic attribute.

Ji Hyun Jung creates a lyrical installation with kinetic technique to show irony and paradox between ideal and reality, and Boyun Jang piles up art on a daily life as connecting her imagination inspired by someone's photo to similar storytelling. Jungki Beak makes outputs, from a process to identify self exploration with creative work, contrapuntally coexist. And Na Kim changes form and methodology of design symmetrically and contextualizes them beyond general territory.

Regarding of them, Jaemin Cha, who raises a question for the essence of the another side of phenomenon with sophisticated emotion and metaphorical image language for social issues, and recovers immanent value of small and insignificant things as drawing, and Minae Kim, who calls attention to artistic stereotype as nihilism through circuitously extending or overturning independent and irreversible feature of art, will participate in the exhibition.

Art works by these artists try to overcome the limit and the rigidity of Korean contemporary art as appropriating, translocating, or overthrowing established language usage. This exhibition will be a chance to remind about a place and contemporary characteristic of Korean contemporary art in the world and consider the possibility of development internationally and solution.

Courtesy of Doosan Gallery