Press Release

P21 returns to Frieze Seoul in 2026. Since itsfirst participation, the gallery has consistentlyhighlighted the breadth of Koreancontemporary art. This year, P21 will present anexpanded program bringing together returningartists and recent additions to its roster.

Featured artists include Yang Jung Uk, whosesolo exhibition at P21 will run concurrently withthe fair. Since winning the 2024 Korea ArtistPrize, Yang has attracted growing attention inKorea and internationally. The presentationalso includes Haneyl Choi, ahead of his soloexhibition at Art Sonje Center this October;Shin Min, winner of the inaugural MGMDiscoveries Art Prize at Art Basel Hong Kong in2025; and Yaerim Ryu, who began working withP21 at last year’s Frieze Seoul and createspaintings that unfold fictional narratives.

Also featured are Keem Jiyoung, whose workexamines where social disasters and individualperception intersect; Taewon Ahn, whoconstructs images at the intersection of thevirtual and the physical through painting andsculpture; London-based Anna Jung Seo,whose practice explores intimacy, migration,and identity; So Young Park, who draws onpersonal memory and sensibility to investigatethe material and visual possibilities of painting;Myung-Joo Kim, who uses the materiality ofclay to give form to the energy of life whileprobing the essence of human existence andinner emotions; Germany-based Hanna Jo,Minjeong An, whose work explores personalmemory and experience through the visuallanguage of anatomical diagrams and scientificimagery, and has drawn the attention of theMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York;whose work considers human equality and theways inner worlds relate to one another;

Yoon Jeongmin, who gives form to everydayexperiences and emotions through ironsculpture and drawing; and Hong Kong-basedWu Jiaru, whose practice brings mythology,memory, and contemporary society intodialogue.

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