Collector’s Review 2024 at AP Space – A Crossroads of Memory, Medium, and Vision
Discover the artists of Collector’s Review 2024, including Ha Taeim, Hyong Nam Ahn, Soojung Park, MOKU, and more—exploring emotion, nature, memory, and connection through contemporary Korean art. On view at AP Space.
COLLECTOR’S REVIEW 2024 – A Portrait of Legacy, Introspection, and Reinvention
Art, at its best, is a conversation—between artists and viewers, past and present, memory and possibility. COLLECTOR’S REVIEW 2024, now on view at AP Space, is a rare opportunity to witness that conversation unfold. This carefully curated exhibition brings together eight extraordinary Korean artists whose work explores everything from technological evolution to emotional distance, from tactile memory to inner light.
Running as a commemorative expansion of the gallery’s inaugural year, the exhibition features new and returning works by Ha Taeim, Hyong Nam Ahn, Yong-Ha Park, Soojung Park, Choi Young Wook, Yoon Byung Rock, Cho Hyun Seo, and the late MOKU—each artist offering a distinct lens through which to see the world.
Honoring MOKU: The Soul of AP Space
At the heart of AP Space’s vision is MOKU (Kwangmo Ku), an artist who began his creative journey at fifty, without formal training and initially without recognition. Despite exhibiting in Europe, his dream of showing in New York remained unfulfilled due to declining health. AP Space now carries that vision forward.
MOKU’s philosophy—that “every being in the moment is precious and beautiful”—is more than a quote. It is a guiding principle. His inclusion in COLLECTOR’S REVIEW 2024 is a powerful reminder that artistry transcends time, age, and circumstance.
Ha Taeim – The Music of Color and Empowerment
The exhibition opens with the work of Ha Taeim, a pioneer in Korean abstract painting known for her rhythmic color bands that unfold like visual music. Her use of soft gradients and vivid color fields radiates energy, suggesting both motion and introspection. At auction and in exhibition halls alike, Ha’s paintings have come to symbolize inner empowerment—urging viewers to discover their own stories within the work.
Hyong Nam Ahn – Light, Movement, and the Human Machine
In sharp contrast to traditional stillness, Hyong Nam Ahn’s kinetic sculptures integrate light, sound, and motion to explore how we interact with technology. Inspired by the kinetic art movement of the 1960s, Ahn asks: as technology evolves, do we grow more connected—or more alone? His installations don’t just move—they respond, inviting audiences into a sensory dialogue between body and machine.
Soojung Park – The Alchemy of Light and Ink
Working with plexiglass, ink, and pigment, Soojung Park creates ethereal images that rely on sunlight to reveal their full effect. By sanding and layering color on both sides of her surfaces, Park constructs glimmering environments where motion and stillness coexist. The result? Works that feel like emotional mirages—momentary, delicate, and deeply contemplative.
Yong-Ha Park – Painting for Tomorrow
For Yong-Ha Park, painting is a ritual of remembrance and resolve. Inspired by his father’s words, he titles each of his works Thou to be Seen Tomorrow. Using stone powder, gold dust, and sand, Park gives his surfaces a tactile, earthen quality reminiscent of Korea’s traditional rural architecture. His pieces speak to legacy—of both land and lineage—and how art anchors us to the future through the materiality of the past.
Choi Young Wook – The Moon Jar as Metaphor
Over the past fifteen years, Choi Young Wook has honed his practice around one central form: the moon jar. In his Karma series, the jar becomes more than a vessel—it becomes a memory, a relationship, a fragile truth. Rendered with soft, intricate pencil lines, his works blend East Asian tradition with a Western abstract sensibility, creating a quiet space where intimacy and distance coexist.
Yoon Byung Rock – Apples, Memory, and the Art of Reversal
Yoon Byung Rock reclaims the humble apple as a portal to memory. His still lifes—viewed from above—defy compositional logic to create something entirely new. Working on uniquely shaped canvases, Yoon paints not for realism, but for feeling. Each apple becomes a mirror, drawing out associations, nostalgia, and quiet emotion from the viewer.
Cho Hyun Seo – The Tension of Intimacy
Cho Hyun Seo’s work centers on the hedgehog’s dilemma—the idea that people crave closeness, yet hurt one another the closer they get. Her thread-based pieces visually express this paradox through stitched lines, layered forms, and opposing ego-states. Often drawing from childhood memory and adult conflict, her work examines not just how we relate to others, but how we relate to ourselves.
A Gallery That Remembers and Looks Ahead
COLLECTOR’S REVIEW 2024 is more than a showcase of fine art—it’s a reflection of AP Space’s mission: to exhibit artists whose work speaks deeply to the present while honoring the legacies they carry.
In a world that often races forward, this exhibition invites you to pause—to feel, to remember, and to imagine what might still be made. Whether through sand, thread, light, or sound, each artist here helps answer the same question: how do we make meaning out of what we see?
