Editorial
Editorial
Essays and readings from KOUM Partners: artists seen in the studio, exhibitions read on site, and the market between Seoul and London.
Seen by KOUM
12 October 2026
What the Paper Kept
The film and the panels describe the same sauce twice: once as it moves, once as it stays.
KOUM Partners, London
ReadSeen by KOUM
12 October 2026
The Circle Comes First
Paper, colour and word have each been a way of making the circle again.
KOUM Partners, London
ReadSeen by KOUM
12 October 2026
Beautiful Waste
Products made for speed, given to oil, a medium that will not be hurried.
KOUM Partners, London
ReadSeen by KOUM
8 October 2026
Neither Before nor After
A work of art does not change when we learn something about the person who made it. What changes is harder to name.
KOUM Partners, London
ReadSeen by KOUM
September 2026
A Second Soy Sauce
A material expected to authenticate an identity, used to demonstrate that the authentication cannot be made.
Woori Ko, KOUM Partners
ReadKOUM Editorial · Exhibition
14 September 2026
Stone and Sea
An artist decided where his own work would live, and then made that decision permanent.
Woori Ko, KOUM Partners
ReadKOUM Editorial · Exhibition
9 September 2026
In Minor Keys, in a Major Venue
A proposition about attention, mounted inside the loudest structure art has invented for itself.
A reading by KOUM Partners
ReadKOUM Editorial · Artist
5 October 2026
A Line That Will Not Settle
What the painter took from a Joseon bottle is not its likeness so much as its looseness.
Woori Ko, KOUM Partners
ReadKOUM Editorial · Exhibition
30 September 2026
What Travels with Korean Art?
Objects travel easily. The histories needed to read them do not.
Woori Ko, KOUM Partners
ReadKOUM Editorial · Market
28 September 2026
Held, Not Named
A collection can be exact about its route before it is exact about its geography.
A reading by KOUM Partners
ReadKOUM Editorial · Exhibition
23 August 2026
Seen by KOUM
August 2026
The Present, Received
Read as lament, the work ends in refusal. Seen in the studio, it holds something else: the present, accepted as it is.
KOUM Partners, London
ReadKOUM Editorial · Artist
16 July 2026
A Decade, Read Backwards
A 2016 magazine feature, read ten years on, for what the painter said about time.
A reading by KOUM Partners
ReadSeen by KOUM
April 2026
Where the Floor Is
A remembered room keeps its edges and loses its coordinates.
KOUM Partners, London
ReadSeen by KOUM
April 2026
One Egg, Seen Twice
The blur is not atmosphere. It is the threshold, held open.
KOUM Partners, London
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