Inside the Windshield He Hid a Story of His Own — The Year He Came Out of a Long Tunnel · Reading MINSEOK No.13
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Beyond the sprint — traces that extend past the canvas.
Minseok Kang's paintings are not static images but traces left by the collision of time and emotion. The series spanning Endless Impact, Endless Force, Timeleap, Reversed Boundary, and Ice Cream carry an ongoing inquiry into speed, identity, rupture, and recovery. These notes form an archive of that journey, assembled through the curator's lens — from solo exhibitions and art fairs, through new studio works in context, to records left by press and collectors worldwide, the artist's thought and practice beyond the finished canvas are recorded in chronological order.
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He Runs in the Middle of It — A Car Surrounded by Force You Cannot See · Reading MINSEOK No.12
Nothing Fills It — A Place That Begins Because It Is Empty · Reading MINSEOK No.11
Where There Is No Road, There Is Still a Direction — Crossing Sky and Sea Without a Compass · Reading MINSEOK No.10
It Only Looks Like It Stopped — The Year a Storm Blew into the Forest I Have Always Been In · Reading MINSEOK No.9
Stray Racer — To Lose the Way Is Also a Choice · Reading MINSEOK No.8
The Paint Desert — Thought Alone Cannot Arrive · Reading MINSEOK No.7
The Thread and Time — Where Fate Always Returns, Timeleap · Reading MINSEOK No.6
The Back of the Cloth — Between Reality and the Inner World · Reading MINSEOK No.5
This Is Not an Ice Cream — The Heaviest Time in the Lightest Subject · Reading MINSEOK No.4
Dazzling Pain — Where the Car Disappears · Reading MINSEOK No.3
Repetition as Practice — The Hand That Pours, Scrapes, and Sews · Reading MINSEOK No.2
A Self-Portrait at Full Speed — What Is Minseok Kang Saying? · Reading MINSEOK No.1
VELOCITY : Afterimage of the Race — Minseok Kang · 2026 Busan Mobility Show Special Exhibition · Domoheon, Busan
This Is Not Ice Cream — Minseok Kang · Loop Lab Busan 2026 · ARTLAB, Busan
BAMA 2026 — Minseok Kang · Endless Impact D05 · BEXCO Hall 1, Busan
On the Things That Cannot Stop — Artist’s Note
Artsper Independent Artist Registration — Minseok Kang Joins the European Online Gallery Platform
RED LINE : Beyond Time and Space — Minseok Kang Solo Exhibition · Gallery UP, Busan
CAUTION — Minseok Kang and Six Others, Group Exhibition · CONTINUE AUCTION, Seoul
A DREAM CAR : Racing the Dream — Minseok Kang Solo Exhibition · Corner Gallery, Seoul
Affordable Art Fair Singapore 2024 — Minseok Kang · Timeleap Series · F1 Pit Building, Singapore
The Light at Summer's End — Minseok Kang ICE CREAM Media Art · Central City Terminal, Seoul
JOY ICE CREAM : Sweet Ice Cream That Stores Memory — Minseok Kang · Starfield City Myeongji, Busan
The Big Bang : Identity — Minseok Kang Solo Exhibition · Polestar Art Gallery, Seoul
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[NFT] Scoops of Nostalgia — OrangeHare × KangCar · OpenSea Drops Featured
The Big Bang : Identity No.2 — Minseok Kang Solo Exhibition · BNK Busan Bank Gallery, Busan
2023 Seoul Money Show — Minseok Kang · NAS Gallery · COEX Hall B, Seoul
Endless force : explosion — Minseok Kang Solo Exhibition · DOT MUSEUM, Busan
BOHEM CIGAR LIBRE × KangCar — Havana Ride Old Car Edition Collaboration
ARTPROJECT5 MINI SHOWROOM OOH TOWER — Minseok Kang Collaboration
A chronological archive of domestic and international media coverage and blog features on Minseok Kang. Click any item to visit the original article.
Beyond BEXCO to Haeundae and Domoheon — All of Busan Becomes a Mobility Show
A feature on the expanded program of the 2026 Busan Mobility Show. Introduces a special exhibition at Domoheon, the former official residence of the Mayor of Busan, where classic cars and automotive artworks are shown together (with Minseok Kang participating).
Read original →Busan Mobility Show Opens on the 26th — A Festival of Future Convergent Mobility
News of the 2026 Busan Mobility Show opening. Includes coverage of the Domoheon special exhibition VELOCITY: Afterimage of the Race, an invited show of four artists — Jang Jae-rok, Kim Yong-min, Kim Seong-min, and Minseok Kang.
Read original →Art Center 1968 Opening Exhibition (Part 3) — 25 Busan Artists in Their 30s and 40s
Twenty-five Busan artists in their 30s and 40s, including Minseok Kang, take part in the opening exhibition (Part 3) of Art Center 1968, newly opened on the third floor of the Aloysio Base 1968 annex in Seo-gu, Busan. May 6 – 26.
Read original →Busan Exhibitions · What to See This Week? (from December 1, 2025)
Busan exhibition news for the first week of December. Minseok Kang’s RED LINE at Gallery UP is featured again ahead of its closing.
Read original →Busan Exhibitions · What to See This Week? (from November 15, 2025)
A curation of major Busan exhibitions for the third week of November. Minseok Kang’s solo exhibition RED LINE is featured as part of the Gallery UP program.
Read original →Minseok Kang Solo Exhibition 'Red Line: Beyond Time and Space' Opens
Introduces Minseok Kang’s 15th solo exhibition, RED LINE : Beyond Time and Space, held at Gallery UP (Busan) from November 11 to December 7, 2025. Spotlights signature works including the Endless Impact series and Reversed Boundary.
Read original →Minseok Kang to Hold Solo Exhibition at Gallery UP from the 11th
News of Minseok Kang’s solo exhibition, selected for the 2025 Busan Arts & Culture Support Program. An overview of the show at Gallery UP in Busan, centered on new works including Endless Impact D05 · D09 · D11.
Read original →Gallery UP Pop-Up Exhibition Epilogos — Minseok Kang and Five Others
News of the Gallery UP–curated pop-up exhibition Epilogos, held in Seongsu-dong, Seoul, from November 8 to 16, 2025. A group exhibition featuring Minseok Kang, Kim Mi-hyun, Kim Pan-muk, Oh Ha-na, and Choi Jae-seop.
Read original →Catching Time in Full Flight — Minseok Kang's Solo Exhibition RED LINE : Beyond Time and Space
K-Spirit on the solo exhibition RED LINE : Beyond Time and Space, held at Gallery UP in Busan.
Read original →CAUTION ⚠️ Minseok Kang — The Self Racing Through the Present
A feature on works in the CONTINUE AUCTION–curated exhibition CAUTION in Gangnam, Seoul, March 2025. An official social-media record of Minseok Kang’s booth and works on view.
Read original →Time, Space, Yearning, and Identity Through the Automobile — Minseok Kang Solo Exhibition A DREAM CAR, Racing the Dream
A review of the solo exhibition that opened on January 4, 2025, organized by Corner Gallery (Seoul). Explores a narrative of time and identity mediated by the automobile through seventeen works from the Time Leap and Paint Desert series.
Read original →Reflected at the End of Summer — Media Art Exhibition Feature (Minseok Kang · MINSEOK)
A feature on the media-art exhibition Reflected at the End of Summer, held at Seoul Central City Terminal. Minseok Kang participates under the name MINSEOK, presenting the ICE CREAM series.
Read original →In Conversation with KangCar
An interview with KangCar on OpenSea's official blog, conducted by Stephanie Rheingold. The artist names as his starting point a meeting around 2015 with the professional racer Tadakazu Kojima and the experience of a vintage Porsche 356a Speedster, and explains how the NFT series Scoops of Nostalgia grew out of chips of dried paint and hardened drips left in his studio. He describes keeping both the physical and the digital rather than destroying the original for scarcity, and his conviction that the work is to keep making.
Read original →Minseok Kang (KangCar) — Artist Profile
An external archive profile page summarizing Minseok Kang’s career, series, and major exhibition history.
Read original →KNN Good Morning Today — Minseok Kang Interview
Minseok Kang appears on the Busan regional broadcast KNN Good Morning Today. A televised interview on his automotive painting practice, the Endless Force series, and the Ice Cream series.
Read original →[Gonggam Geurigo] Issue 49 (Summer) Feature Interview — Minseok Kang
A feature interview in the summer issue (No. 49) of the Busan Cultural Foundation quarterly Gonggam Geurigo. A video interview in which Minseok Kang speaks about the origins of his automobile painting, the Endless Force series, and his approach to his practice.
Read original →Humanities Found in Film, One Thousand and One Nights Told in Dance
Gukje News covers NOTICE, the fifteen-artist show of young Busan artists, as an exhibition realised across painting, sculpture, installation and NFT.
Read original →Planned by the Young, for the Young — An Exhibition of Young Artists
Busan Ilbo introduces each artist in NOTICE, the fifteen-artist show of young Busan artists. Kang is described as known for images of racing cars, in paintings that carry a sense of speed.
Read original →Busan Exhibitions — What to See the Last Week of April 2023
A listing for NOTICE, a fifteen-artist show of young Busan artists at KT&G Sangsangmadang Busan, planned to introduce and connect artists working in the region. Minseok Kang is among the fifteen.
Read original →Racing Automobile Paintings Question Existence in an Age of Competition
An in-depth review of the 10th solo exhibition Endless Force : Evolution, held at 523 Kunstdoc in Eomgung-dong, Sasang-gu, Busan. Traces the trajectory of his automobile painting from 'A Source of Strength' to 'Invisible Force' to 'Endless Force.'
Read original →Minseok Kang's Endless Force : Evolution Runs Through 30 April
Handmaker covers the solo exhibition Endless force : evolution with installation views, running through 30 April.
Read original →Minseok Kang Solo Exhibition — Endless Force : Evolution
An introduction to the solo exhibition Endless force : evolution held at 523 Gallery in Busan.
Read original →523 Gallery Holds Minseok Kang Solo Exhibition 'Endless Force : Evolution'
His 10th solo exhibition, held at 523 Gallery in Eomgung, Busan, from April 2 to April 30, 2022. Presented some 37 works, including 12 large paintings, alongside the Ice Cream series (hologram · AR).
Read original →Painter Minseok Kang's Solo Exhibition, Endless Force : Evolution
Page 10 of Kyongsang Ilbo, on the solo exhibition Endless force : evolution opening 2 April. The paper describes Kang as a Western-style painter.
Read original →[Scent of Culture] Busan-Area Exhibitions — Arian Gallery Opening (Minseok Kang and 13 Others)
A feature on the opening exhibition of Arian Gallery in Busan (through July 4). Details of a group exhibition of fourteen artists, including Minseok Kang.
Read original →Gallery of the Morning — Endless Force VIII by Minseok Kang
Gukje News gave Endless Force VIII a page of its own in the Gallery of the Morning column: paint flung from the fingertips explodes across the canvas in dozens of lines and colours, with the car inside them.
Read original →A Parking Tower Turned Racetrack — Feel MINI's Max Speed
Coverage of the first project of MINI's 'Art in the City' initiative: artist Minseok Kang (KangCar) turned the entire parking tower behind the MINI showroom in Changwon into a canvas for a monumental mural. The article introduces his automobile-centered practice — including the Stray Racer, Invisible Force, and Energy series — with an interview with the artist, himself a MINI owner.
Read original →Minseok Kang — Busan Cultural Foundation e-Archive Profile
Minseok Kang’s official archive page. Busan Cultural Foundation records summarizing his birth in 1980, his BFA and MFA in Western painting at Dong-A University, and his works, series, and major exhibition history.
Read original →Minseok Kang Solo Exhibition — Force Invisible
Listing for the solo exhibition at the Alliance Française de Busan, 1–20 June, carrying the artist's note in full: a roar breaking through the dark, colliding with human physical force, entering a heart that explodes.
Read original →Minseok Kang — Invisible Force
The gallery's exhibition archive for the solo show held 1–20 June 2017, in which darkness filled with light and sound comes out on the canvas as a single force.
Read original →A Self Carried Inside a Dynamic Style
On the invited exhibition at Ulju Culture and Arts Center, 17–29 May. The paper introduces Kang as a young artist who has worked in Korea, China and Japan since his first solo show in 2011.
Read original →Minseok Kang — A Source of Strength
The gallery's own exhibition archive for the solo show held 17–29 April 2014: cars running through the city toward a destination, inside the fence that regulation draws around them.
Read original →[Scent of Culture] Exhibitions · Busan — Minseok Kang Solo Exhibition (Gallery Woo)
A feature on Minseok Kang’s solo exhibition held at Gallery Woo in Busan in December 2012. Introduces his early experiments in hybrid painting, mixing painting, printmaking, and collage.
Read original →Exhibitions in Busan — Culture Listings
Busan Ilbo's exhibition listing for Kang's first solo show, The Competition, at Gallery Mac from 19 to 25 February. It notes experimental work applying photography, printmaking and collage.
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