Elsewhere, Still Ours
The Standard, East Village, New York
May 10–14, 2026
This is a group exhibition, curated by John Kim & Sandy Park at The Standard, East Village featuring nine Korean and Korean diaspora artists and designers. The show looks at how identity - specifically Koreanness - is lived, inherited, and remade across distance.
The work spans ceramics, textile, fashion, and mixed media. Traditional materials like hanji, hemp, and silk sit alongside acrylic and aluminium - not as contrast, but as continuation. The participating artists come from different places and different moments in their relationship to Korea: some born there, some in diaspora, some recently arrived.
Artists & Designers: Cheong Sil Lee, Se Oh, Heakyoung Jang, Insung Yoon, Dahae Song, Hyunhee Kim, Yoona Hur, Junsu Kim & Hakmin Lee.
The practices here touch on queerness, migration, dual nationality, and the everyday negotiation of cultural memory. This isn't a show about nostalgia or national identity in a fixed sense - it's about what happens to belonging when it travels.
Produced by PARKIM
Client
The Standard East Village for NYCxDESIGN
Year
May 2026
힘 - ‘Him’/Strength
The Jaunt × PARKIM: Fieldwork / 힘
Realation Space, Seoul — Nov 7–16, 2025
The Jaunt and PARKIM Agency present two parallel exhibitions exploring the intersection of travel, design, and artistic process.
Fieldwork, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles– and Amsterdam–based artist Charlie Edmiston(@charlieedmiston), translates his Jaunt journeys through Denmark and Upstate New York into vivid geometric compositions bridging modernist design and digital experimentation.
Running concurrently, 힘 - meaning “strength” in Korean - brings together five international female artists and five Korean female designers/studios. Their works redefine power as persistence, intuition, and care, expressed through material, movement, and form.
Artists: Lisa Congdon (@lisacongdon), Seonna Hong (@seonnahong), Linnea Andersson(@linneaanderssonofficial), Mando Marie (@seeyouthroughit), Liz Flores (@lizitto).
Designers: Greem Jeong (@greemjeong), OK Kim (@okkimstudio), Honey Kim(@keemhoney), Studio CHACHACHA (@studio_chacha.kr), WKND Lab (@wkndlab.official).
Presented by The Jaunt (thejaunt.net) and PARKIM Agency (parkimagency.com) at Realation Space, Gangnam, this exhibition bridges global and local creative practices, illuminating how travel, craft, and culture continue to shape the language of contemporary art and design.
Produced by
The Jaunt & PARKIM
Year
November 2025
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Behind Closed Doors, presented by studio HJRK, PARKIM, and Choi & Friends opens September 3, 2025 in Seoul, Korea.
Set within the former residence of the Romanian Ambassador - now the home and office of studio HJRK - Behind Closed Doors is an immersive art and design exhibition that reimagines Korean identity through a lens rarely seen in public and runs from September 3-7, 2025 with a VIP Preview on September 2. Curated by Sandy Park (PARKIM), John Kim (PARKIM), Hye-Jin Ris Kim (studio HJRK) and Jillian Choi(Choi & Friends), the exhibition features work from Korean artists and designers, both native and from the diaspora.
Rather than framing “Korean-ness” through traditional or pop cultural stereotypes, the exhibition reveals a more intimate, layered, and individualized contemporary narrative. It opens the door to the quiet, unvarnished realities of Korean life today - spaces where people live, rest, reflect, gather, grieve, and dream free from the gaze of society.
In Korea, ambition and societal expectations shape much of everyday contemporary life, often driving achievement and resilience. This exhibition turns inward, rejecting long held stereotypes and opening space for more personal, nuanced, and unconventional expressions of who we are today.
Featuring collectible design, contemporary art, and personal objects, Behind Closed Doors creates a portrait of Korean domesticity as a place of both refuge and self-definition - where identity is shaped as much by lived experience as by heritage, and where the private sphere offers a rare freedom from the weight of expectation.
The exhibition features work by 24 artists and designers ranging in medium, discipline and process. The exhibition includes historic and more recent work by Seung Neung Kyung, the Korean conceptual art pioneer, work by artists Jesse Chun, Hong Soun, Suh Se Ok, and Taewon Ahn, and design pieces by Jinyeon Yeon, Seongil Choi, Hakmin Lee and Heakyoung Jang. New work by artist Chunkook Lee and designers Kwangho Lee and Haneul Kim are being shown for the first time.
Artists & Designers
Casper Kang, Chunkook Lee, Chulhwa Kwon, Dahae Song, Hakmin Lee, Haneul Kim, Harta Studio Heakyoung Jang, Hojung Kim, Hong Soun, Jeonghwa Choi, Jeonghwa Seo, Jesse Chun, Jinyeong Yeon, Kwangho Lee, Se Oh, Suh Se Ok, Kyelee Kim, Sung Neung Kyung, Seongil Choi, Sukyung Chung, Taewon Ahn & Ye Rin Park
Produced by
Studio HJRK, CHOI & Friends & PARKIM
With Support From
Lehmann Maupin, P21, Commonwealth & Council, PS Center
Year
September 2025