Past Exhibitions
Pneuma 숨결
Pneuma 숨결 is a group show featuring four established Korean contemporary artists: Choi Young-Wook, Kim Duck-Yong, Kim Young-Hun and Lee Gee-Jo. The artists intertwine traditional culture with their personal expression, presenting rich and diverse artistic styles that embody the essence of Korean aesthetics, and connect the works with our souls by breaking down the boundaries between art and materiality.
In Between Islands
In Between Islands is the third solo exhibition of Korean contemporary artist Park Yoon-Kyung with the gallery. The exhibition showcases Park’s latest artworks which draw inspiration from the island’s stunning scenery, rich culture, and unique dialects. In a modern interpretation of the traditional Korean letter painting ‘Munja-do’, Park invites viewers to delve into the captivating world where nature and emotions intertwine in an artistic embrace.
The Way Home
The Way Home is a summer group show curated by Shirky Chan, featuring Chan Suet Yi, Henry D’Ath, Rhett D’Costa, and Mo Lai Sze Liz. Drawing from their personal experiences, recollections, and aspirations, each artist offers a profound and nuanced interpretation of home through their distinct bodies of work. The exhibition invites viewers to contemplate our own definition of home and embark on a journey to search for one's way home.
Oh Se-Yeol
This is the first solo exhibition of Korean contemporary artist Oh Se-Yeol with the gallery. The exhibition showcases Oh’s latest works completed between 2020 and 2024, along with selected oeuvres from the past. By incorporating scribbles, objects and collages into his works, Oh invites the audiences to reconnect with their own memory and reclaim the lost innocence of their inner child.
Scenery of My Mind
Scenery of My Mind is the first solo exhibition of Hong Kong artist Rosalyn Ng at the gallery. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Ng’s artistic endeavors have always transcended the confines of the urban environment, exploring and recreating her perception of the world through abstract paintings. Featuring a brand new series of Ng’s latest works, this exhibition explores the contradictions between nature and artificial elements, sensibility and rationality.
Still Light
Still Light is the first solo exhibition of the Spanish artist Javier León Pérez at the gallery. The exhibition showcases Perez’s latest oil painting series. Pérez’s creative process begins with the reference of paper models, offering a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional pictorial genre of "still life", capturing daily common objects that provoke a philosophical contemplation about existentialism across different eras.
Soglia
Soglia is the first solo exhibition of Italian contemporary painter Raffaele Cioffi at the gallery. Soglia, meaning "threshold" in Italian, represents the artist's exploration of liberating light from the confines of lines on a canvas. Through harmonious and nuanced colors, he creates depths and passages, inviting viewers to step forward into these entrances or activated monitor screens.
Summer Tapestry
Summer Tapestry is a summer group show spotlighting Kim Ha-Young, Kim Yong-Chul, Rosalyn Ng, Park Yoon-Kyung, and Jon Poblador. Bursting with uplifting colors and narratives, the featured vivid works of acrylic paintings and mixed media illuminate the essence of summer, unleashing boundless creativity and captivating viewers’ senses.
Auspicious Dream
Auspicious Dream is the second solo exhibition by Kim Duck-Yong with the gallery. Alongside Kim's iconic mother-of-pearl series of Ocean Rhapsody (oceanic sceneries), Borrowed Scenery (partial ocean views in window frames), and Scholar's Accoutrement (books and objects on shelves), the exhibition debuts nine new works and series titled Auspicious Dream (2023), depicting pearlescent night landscapes.
Gravity
The exhibition showcases a group of paintings and mixed media drawings of botany, still life, and landscapes that oscillate between abstraction-figuration, portraying liminal space between the mind and the physical world by four artists based in Hong Kong and the Netherlands, including Rosalyn Ng, Tobe Kan, Uzine Park, and Zang Zong-Son.
The Paradox of Beauty
At first, Jeong Myoung-Jo's exhibition works would impress the viewers as general women in traditional Korean dress called Hanbok, but another dimension of meanings exists beyond the external outlook. Viewers may reflect on the definition of beauty throughout the past, present, and future based on their perceptions of the faceless, anonymous figures in the paintings.
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Pervade
Pervade presents 11 masterpieces by two of the most notable names synonymous with the first generation of Korean modern-abstract art: Ha In-Doo, whose geometric colour field abstract art has roots that can be traced back to Korean traditional culture and Buddhism; and Lee Ung-No, who transcended the barriers of Eastern and Western art with his modern and abstract art of nature and humans.
Storyteller
Storyteller is a dual exhibition showcasing drawings, paintings, mixed media, and mural art by Bing Lee (b. 1948, New York-based Hong Kong artist) and Kim Ha-Young (b. 1983, London-based South Korean artist) that facilitates dialogues about the contemporary psyche and open the floor for the audience to explore multiculturalism and art.
Ripple Ripple
This exhibition showcases over ten latest oil paintings with vibrant colors by the artist based on his inspiration from the ever changing digital world. In years of painting, Kim constantly explore the ambiguousness in binary by symbolizing the electronic signals with the traditional Korean painting technique of "Hyuk-Pil"(革筆畫), in which the painter mixes various colors and paints with rapid strokes using a leather brush.
PRISM
Acting as a capsule review of the Soluna Fine Art's exhibitions, PRISM showcases a group of Asian fine art paintings and objects by emerging and established contemporary artists based internationally, such as Hong Kong, Seoul, and New York. This exhibition is our biggest group exhibition yet, comprising 17 artists who exhibited with the gallery before.
KOAN
This exhibition showcases Kim’s work with his approach towards the Asian wisdom and oriental philosophy. With organic earth elements, his work focuses on seeking the true definition of the origin of the material. In this exhibition, Kim embraced the enlightenment he captured from the Earth material, transformed it onto the canvas with his unique method of creation.
The Attitude that Sustains
Our Lives
In Park's second solo exhibition with Soluna Fine Art, we invite you to the continuation of the dialogue of her recent series from Art Central in May 2021 to the gallery. The title of the exhibition, The Attitude that Sustains Our Lives, refers to the elemental tiers from her painting tower that represent different universal, timeless issues about the environment and human relationships.
Full Moon
The exhibition is a group show that showcases ceramic Moon Jars made by Lee Geejo, Kim Yik Yung and Lee Kang-hyo, as well as paintings by Choi Young-wook and Kim Duck Yong. Moon Jar has been critically acclaimed by scholars, art critics and collectors since Joseon Dynasty; and is now perceived as a contemporary art genre that traverses the strictures of the traditional concept of Korean ceramics.
Ocean Rhapsody
This exhibition showcases Kim’s sixteen zen paintings made with mother of pearl; depicting oceanic sceneries alone, as well as through window frames and bookshelves, Kim celebrates his Korean heritage through a contemporary approach of utilising traditional mediums. Envisaging the artist as a scholar who gazes at the ocean, the exhibited works capture the euphoric emotions in the still yet kinetic waters.
Electronic Nostalgia
Living through the transition between the analog generation and digital generation, Kim Young-Hun is passionate about observing and deciphering the unknown between the 1 and 0 of binary codes. Inspirations such as stripe covered light bulbs, white noise from digital screens, and invisible vibrations from string instruments allow Kim’s works, in his wordings, to “...generate an electronic-like abstract painting language that interferes with some parts of the ambiguous boundaries of our ever-changing digital or reality lives”.
Joanne Chan x Zang Zong-Son:
Between Us
A duo exhibition with Joanne Chan (Hong Kong) and Zang Zong-Son (South Korea). Both artists’ way of expression on emotions through art abstraction invite viewers to delve into a feminine and innermost space of emotions and dialogues. This duo exhibition is a moment of resonance and collision between the two artists.
Obangsaek: Indigo
Indigo/blue is balanced by red in the Korean flag. While red represents the passionate energy of life, indigo/blue represents its opposite, silence and calming energy. This exhibition will be part of the Obangsaek Series, a series of five exhibitions aim to explore and analyze art works constructed with the Five-Orientation-Colour, all created by emerging and established Korean contemporary artists.
Obangsaek: Vermilion
According to Korean tradition, the colour red associates with the south, fire, and “Yang”. With its powerful yang energy, vermillion is believed to ward off evil spirits and dictate the lives of living things. Throughout this collection, the works of art embody the essence of the colour vermillion: creation, passion, and love.
Paperlogue
Song Kwangik is a painter whose innovative approach to his art challenges the conventional ideas of painting and sculpture, by combining abstraction, spatiality and his cultural background using acrylic paint and Hanji. Song’s practice recalls the fundamental philosophy – Wu Wei (무위, or 無為) of Tao: “inexertion”, “inaction” or an “attitude of genuine non-action, motivated.
Happy Days Are Here Again
Kim created 8 pieces of new works painted with brilliantly vibrant colors, he divided the canvases into two sections, one filled with his iconic big heart figure and the other with the work titles written in Chinese. Other works in this exhibition include numerous birds and blossoms paintings, with Chinese characters like “Fortune” and “Spring” which resembles “the new beginning” in Korean culture.
Morning Rise
Morning Rise is an exhibition dedicated to seven artists whose works symbolically indicate the rising of Korean contemporary art and culture. In their own way, each individual artists dedicated their works to the Korean traditions and histories and profoundly show their respect to the nation while showcasing their extraordinary craftsmanship and talent.
Urban Odyssey
Soluna Fine Art proudly presents Urban Odyssey, South Korean photographer Kim Woo-Young’s debut exhibition in Hong Kong and with the gallery. Within the exhibition Soluna Fine Art will present twelve photographs, highlighting Kim’s signature of seamlessly connecting the colours between wall surfaces and lines as well as the streets in his photographs.
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Breathing of Light
In this latest series, Lee has created works that explore the materiality and phenomenological metamorphosis of glass to examine the concept of ‘정중동’ ‘靜中動’ (movements in stillness). Titled, Breathing of Light, these works predominantly work with a base layer of flat painted mirror and laminated glass primarily utilising red, yellow and blue, with three dimensional wedges of glass arranged irregularly on the surface.
Breeze
The Breeze series comes from Park’s extensive research on organic shapes and colors by monitoring natural movements and its effect on human life. The term Fractal image, also known as expanding symmetry, is encountered ubiquitously in nature due to its tendency to appear nearly the same at different levels. Park Ji Sook creates fractal patterns that derive from organic shapes and movements to reveal her interpretation of the human-nature relationship.
Ways of Water
Ways of Water is Korean female painter Jang Young-Sook’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, following her brief but successful debut at Art Central 2019. This exhibition showcases 9 works selected from the mid 2000’s Water Period of Jang’s extensive oeuvre, including works from the Wave Series and the Waterdrop Series.
Colour-Fullness
Marking one of its most important exhibitions since its opening, Soluna Fine Art presents Colour-Fullness, a revolutionary exploration of the connections between Op Art and Dansaekhwa. The gallery will exhibit two of the most iconic artists from Korea: Park Seo-Bo and Choi Myoung Young in dialogue with Puerta Roja’s Op Art masters; Carlos Cruz-Diez and Luis Tomasello.
Painting Tower
Painting Tower is a solo exhibition showcasing the ground-breaking works of Korean Painter Park Yoon-Kyung. Park's work innovates the convention of painting and provokes the Asian contemporary art scene. With playful, vigorous brush strokes the artist applies bright and vivid combinations of colors across a translucent surface, allowing the paint drips and flows in various directions thus leaving traces of gravity and time into her paintings.
Buncheong Landscape
Buncheong Landscape is meaningfully devoted to the celebration of the grand opening of Soluna Fine Art Hong Kong. Buncheong is a type of ceramics from the 15th - 16th century during the Joseon dynasty in Korea. Lee Kang-Hyo has spent over 30 years to reinterpret Buncheong ceramics to contemporary objects.