193 Gallery
Hyangmok Baik , South Korea
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"Have You Ever Fallen in Love?"
Hyangmok Baik, "Have You Eveer Fallen in Love?", 2026, Mixed media on canvas. Courtesy the artist and 193 Gallery
Hyangmok Baik’s work extends a tradition of bold, almost post-aesthetic contemporary painting. His layered canvases combine flattened perspectives, heavily worked surfaces, and unpredictable colour schemes with irreverent subject matter drawn from biblical, mythological, and art-historical references. Figures that recall the canon of academic painting are reinterpreted through a contemporary lens and interwoven with everyday or anachronistic elements, creating deliberate dissonances between the sacred and the mundane. Through recontextualization and a fair amount of dark humour, Baik’s works blur the boundaries between classical imagery and contemporary life.
Solo show of Hyangmok Baik
From April 25 to June 13, 2026
The gallery
Founded in 2018, the 193 Gallery, based in Paris and Venice, aims to offer a global tour of contemporary art and to showcase the diversity of art scenes worldwide, with a particular focus on Southern scenes (Caribbean, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia).
Guided by the discovery and affirmation of diverse identities, the gallery supports a program aimed at fostering dialogue between different regions of the world, proposing a vision of art that transcends traditional Western interpretations. We are committed to promoting diversity by highlighting unique perspectives and celebrating the cultural richness of each continent.
The 193 Gallery participates in numerous prestigious art fairs (Untitled Miami, Arco Madrid, Zona Maco, Art Paris, Art Monte Carlo, Art Genève, Expo Chicago, Tokyo Gendai, Paris Photo, KIAF Seoul, Shanghai WestBund, Dallas Art Fair, 1-54 Marrakech / New York / London) and supports its artists in various biennales. In 2024, we are proud to present the exhibition "Passengers in Transit" a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
Gallery artists
Ben Arpea, Hyangmok Baik, Valentina Canseco, Aldo Chaparro, Joana Choumali, Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang, Modou Dieng Yacine, Christa David, Rafael Domenech, Adler Guerrier, Sesse Elangwe, Hassan Hajjaj, Roxane Mbanga, Thandiwe Muriu, Shinji Nagabe, Hyacinthe Ouattara, Shourouk Rhaiem, Javier Toro Blum, Rob Tucker, Lorenzo Vitturi
