"Made in Korea" presents paintings, works on paper and sculpture from different generations of artists from South Korea.

The exciting cultural area and its concept of art enter into a dialog with the Western viewer and thus open up new ways of reflecting with and about art. In contrast to Western-influenced works of art, Korean art is not received verbally, but spiritually and mentally.

Kwon Jae-Hyun and his sculptures show the interface between surface and form. He forms a surface out of wood that seems to consist of pixels and thus has the potential for metamorphosis. Although his figure seems to fill the space objectively, it remains empty in itself. "Modern Child" expresses the paradox of a void filling the space and thus questions not only artistic tradition, but also social norms.

In our exhibition, we are showing new works on paper by Woo Jong Taek, which clothe the artist's reflections on himself and nature in a pictorial language that leaves behind the conventional notion of abstract and representational. The artist's painterly process is based on a meditative attitude; he approaches painting not only physically but also spiritually.

Cha Kyusun is known as an artist for so-called "Buncheong painting". Inspired by the beauty and simplicity of Buncheong porcelain, the artist developed a painting technique for which he mixes gray earth with pigments and then paints them with acrylic paint. Nature and, above all, the earth play a major role in his work. For the artist, earth is a particularly spiritual and nostalgic element, as it reminds us humans of our surroundings and reminds us to be empathetic.

The Hanji drawings "Works from Reminiscence" by Cha Hyeon-Uk impressively demonstrate the incorporation of traditional East Asian art reception and painting techniques into a contemporary position. In East Asian painting, the expansion of thought by the viewer is an important element, so visually empty spaces within the picture are seen as a possibility for reflection. Cha Hyeon Uk's mountain landscapes show, on the one hand, a clarity of the actual motif of the picture, and yet there is still room for change.

The artist Koo Ja-Hyun creates an artistic oeuvre that cannot be penetrated by concepts or visual narration. His works emanate a stillness and philosophical simplicity that honors the two-dimensional surface as the foundation of visual art.

The series of works "Behind the veil" by the artist Park Inseong impressively shows the accumulation of various media, creating an almost mysterious veiling of the actual motif. Using acrylic, printed paper and synthetic resin, the young artist creates a strange and abstract world for us, which the viewer tries to observe as if through a veil. In a lyrical manner, Park Inseong shows us the incomprehensibility of social principles such as religion and politics and, as if through a Platonic shadow, reveals only fragments of the mythically hidden pictorial motif.

In his "Disaster in the world" series, Seo Pyoung Joo shows an interesting fusion of reality and abstraction. His pictorial themes are almost painfully rooted in the reality of our world, whereby his painting style blurs the motif as if in a dream. The artist primarily shows newspaper cuttings and images of disasters and his political realism is reminiscent of Andy Warhol's disaster paintings.