BANK ART FAIR SEOUL
April 30th – May 3rd 2026
Seoul (South Korea)
with Ilia Balavadze, Maka Batiashvili, Karine Bartoli, Jeong Lea, Kim Il Joong, Kim Soo Young, Hugo Pondz, Sa Hara & Anna Song
2026년 한여름, 뱅크아트페어가 SETEC 전관에서 뜨거운 대중 미술 축제의 장을 선보였습니다. 제15회 BAF는 기획전을 포함해 총 116개 부스로 개최되었으며, 8월 7일부터 10일까지 총 56,000여 명의 관람객이 행사장을 방문했습니다. 행사 기간 동안 약 2,400여 점의 작품이 판매되었으며, 판매가는 100만 원에서 6,000만 원까지 다양했습니다. 특히 100~300만 원대 작품의 판매가 가장 많아, BAF가 대중성과 안정성을 갖춘 미술 시장임을 보여주었습니다. 뱅크아트페어는 아트페어에 처음 참여하는 신생 갤러리에도 참여 기회를 제공하며, 신생 갤러리부터 전통 있는 갤러리까지 모두 함께할 수 있는 뜨거운 미술 교류의 장을 마련합니다. 이번 BAF는 메인 후원사인 농심, 롯데칠성음료, 하이트진로음료, 대두식품, 오미나라, 국순당 등 다양한 기업의 후원으로 진행되었으며, 협찬받은 음료와 스낵은 모든 미술 애호가들에게 제공되었습니다. 또한 후원 기업에서 제공하는 프리미엄 선물 세트는 작품을 구매한 모든 컬렉터에게 증정되었으며, 2026년에는 약 2,800여 명에게 전달되었습니다. 이를 통해 BAF는 즐거운 마음으로 작품을 구매할 수 있는 미술 축제이자, 다시 찾고 싶은 행사로 기억될 것입니다.
Maka Batiashvili
Mandarin
2024
Oil on canvas
66 x 45 x 3 cm - 25,9 x 17,7 x 1,2
Kim Soo Young
Queen 26-2-01
2026
Mixed media on Hanji Korean traditional paper
92,5 x 65 x 0,1 cm - 36,4 x 25,6 x 0,04 in
Sa Hara
Secret Notebook
2025
Charcoal & acrylic on canvas
91 x 116,8 x 4 cm - 35,8 x 46 x 1,6 in
Kim Il Joong
Untitled 250307
2025
Nacre & Acrylic on panel
27,5 x 22 x 4 cm - 10,8 x 8,6 x 1,6 in
STILL, SHE CARRIES
solo show with KIM SOO YOUNG
March 2nd – May 9th 2026
ONLINE VIEWING with ARTNET, ARTSY & KUNSTMATRIX
Worldwide
curated by Bruno Massa
galerie bruno massa is pleased to introduce to international audience for its first time a solo show by Kim Soo Young with dozen of artworks from March 2nd to May 9th 2026.
There is a woman walking through the streets of West Africa. On her head, a tray of dried fish. In one hand, water. On her back, a sleeping child. Beside her, another child keeping pace with her stride. She does not slow down. She does not ask to be seen. And yet — she is the most complete image of a Queen Kim Soo young has ever witnessed. Still, She Carries is an exhibition rooted in that single, unrepeatable moment. A moment where physical endurance and invisible grace collapsed into one body, one movement, one truth: that the greatest authority is not seized — it is sustained. These paintings do not romanticise strength. They sit with it honestly — and with everything that shadows it. A marriage. A divorce. The particular silence of a body that will not bear children. The absence that reshapes what it means to be a woman, to desire motherhood, to carry its ghost long after the possibility has passed.
The Queen in Kim Soo Young's work is never an abstraction. She is made of fish dried under African sun, of arms extended toward children who exist and children who do not, of a dignity so continuous it becomes invisible to those around her. She carries what is given and what is taken. She carries what was hoped for and what was lost. She carries cultures — African, European, Korean — layered beneath her skin like sediment.
Still — she stands. Still — she moves. Still — she carries.
In this immersive online 3D exhibition, the viewer enters a space where painting becomes presence. Where the Queen is not placed on a pedestal, but encountered — at eye level, in motion, in full.
Because she was never above us. She was always among us.
Kim Soo Young is a Korean-born artist whose practice has been shaped by over two decades of immersion in French artistic traditions. Moving fluidly between fine art and fashion, she has developed a visual language that defies easy categorization — rooted equally in personal memory and cross-cultural experience. Her work draws from travels across West Africa, life in Europe, and the cultural heritage of Korea, weaving these influences into large-scale figurative paintings executed in mixed media on hanji, Korean traditional paper. At the center of her practice stands the figure of the Queen — not as symbol of power, but as embodiment of endurance, femininity, and the silent authority of those who carry the weight of the world.
김수영은 한국 출신 작가로, 20년 이상 프랑스 예술 전통에 깊이 몸담으며 자신만의 독창적인 예술 세계를 구축해왔다. 순수미술과 패션을 자유롭게 넘나들며, 개인적 기억과 다문화적 경험에 뿌리를 둔 독특한 시각 언어를 발전시켜왔다. 서아프리카 여행, 유럽에서의 삶, 그리고 한국의 문화적 유산이 한데 어우러져, 한지(韓紙) 위에 혼합 매체로 구현된 대형 구상 회화로 탄생한다. 그녀의 작업 중심에는 '여왕'의 형상이 있다 — 권력의 상징이 아닌, 세상의 무게를 짊어진 이들의 인내와 여성성, 그리고 조용한 권위의 구현으로서.
Kim Soo Young
Queen 26-3
2026
Mixed media on Hanji Korean traditional paper
177 x 114 x 0,1 cm - 69,6 x 44,8 x 0,04 in
Kim Soo Young
Queen 26-5
2026
Mixed media on Hanji Korean traditional paper
177 x 114 x 0,1 cm - 69,6 x 44,8 x 0,04 in
Kim Soo Young
Queen 26-2
2026
Mixed media on Hanji Korean traditional paper
177 x 114 x 0,1 cm - 69,6 x 44,8 x 0,04 in
