VELOCITY : The Afterimage of Speed | Minseok Kang Contemporary Fine Art · 2026 Busan Mobility Show
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From June 26 to July 5, 2026, VELOCITY : The Afterimage of Speed opens at Domoheon, a historic cultural complex in Busan. Organized as a special exhibition of the 2026 Busan Mobility Show, the exhibition is hosted by Busan Metropolitan City, organized by BEXCO, and planned by MUSEUM1, featuring four artists: Minseok Kang, Seongmin Kim, Yongmin Kim, and Jaerok Jang.
Domoheon · Where Speed Meets History
Built in 1984 and once used as the Presidential Regional Guest House and the Busan City Hall annex, Domoheon was transformed by the city into a cultural space for its citizens. That an exhibition exploring speed and velocity would unfold inside this historic building is no coincidence. Inside this space where history has paused, we encounter the traces of speed all the more vividly.
Minseok Kang · Contemporary Fine Art Painter Who Renders Existence Through Automobiles
Born in 1980 in Busan, Minseok Kang holds a BFA and MFA in Western Painting from Dong-A University. His contemporary fine art paintings have always begun from ‘movement’ and ‘existential tension.’ From the moment he first placed an automobile on canvas, it became not a mere object but a symbol connecting the inner world and outer reality. The automobile is a tool that races through reality, and a projectile of inner force and desire — through it, the artist poses the fundamental question: ‘How do humans live and change within time?’
His paintings are a record of sensation where material and action converge. Through the repetitive physical act of pushing, pressing, dragging, and layering paint, he leaves traces of time and fragments of emotion on canvas. Automobiles are disassembled and scattered; within exploding color and colliding lines they are reconstructed. This process is not competition with others, but a journey to break through one’s own limits and confront the anxiety within.
Endless Impact — Contemporary Fine Art Paintings of Collision and Endless Speed
Inner tension pushes me always to the limit. Time and space are not mere backgrounds, but a stage where reality and thought collide to form shape. The act of pressing and pushing paint is a process of recording and capturing a moment. The traces left behind gather like scattered fragments on canvas, reflecting a self in motion. These fragments explode like a big bang, forming the shape of an automobile — the scar left by the collision of identity and desire, the shape of tension itself.
The Endless Impact series presented by Minseok Kang in this exhibition consists of his most recent contemporary fine art acrylic paintings (2025–2026). D03 captures the explosive moment of collision on a large 194x130.4cm canvas. The cracks and impacts engraved in the work become not mere destruction but a force summoning a new order. This endless speed is a journey toward the essence of existence, and these traces reveal the artist’s identity transcending time and space.
Endless Impact D09 · D11 — Same Speed, Different Moments
Minseok Kang · Endless Impact D09 · 130.4x130.4cm · Acrylic on canvas · 2025 | Minseok Kang · Endless Impact D11 · 130.4x130.4cm · Acrylic on canvas · 2026
D09 and D11 share the same 130.4x130.4cm square canvas while each capturing a different moment of collision. Two works moving toward different conclusions within the same speed and tension only acquire complete meaning as a series when placed side by side.
Endless Force XXXVII — The Main Work of This Exhibition
Endless Force XXXVII is the main work that will hang at the center of the Domoheon exhibition space. The large horizontal canvas at 324x111.9cm radiates an overwhelming physical presence in itself. Minseok Kang’s Endless Force series (2019–2024) is a contemporary fine art painting series exploring speed, competition, and inner force — narrating the fierce competition of modern humans and the compromise and coexistence within through the distortion and dissolution of automobiles.
The endless speed of consciousness racing toward an ever-shrinking center symbolizes the force of existence breaking through the pressure of modern society and inner conflict. The fragmented automobile form expresses the internal tension and longing, embodying the artist’s endless self-exploration and process of growth. XXXVII — the thirty-seventh. That many acts and explorations are concentrated in this single canvas.
Endless Impact D10 · Timeleap V — Two Times, Two Directions
Minseok Kang · Endless Impact D10 · 45.6x52.8cm · Acrylic on canvas · 2026 | Minseok Kang · Timeleap V · 72.7x50.3cm · Mixed Media (Acrylic, Embroidery Thread) · 2022
D10 is the smallest work (45.6x52.8cm) in the Endless Impact series, containing explosive density within a compressed canvas. Timeleap V (2022) is a contemporary fine art mixed media work combining acrylic and embroidery thread. The Timeleap series expresses the challenge and hope of finding identity by leaping across past, present, and future — telling the story of a modern person bound by time through the fragmented automobile form. Though different series, the two works become mirrors reflecting each other through the shared language of speed and time.
2F Media Space · Ice Cream — The Trace Left by Speed
The second layer of the exhibition unfolds in the large media space on the 2nd floor of Domoheon. Minseok Kang’s Ice Cream media series re-images paint fragments left in the process of contemporary fine art acrylic painting as ice cream forms. First shown in his 2024 Starfield Myeongji solo exhibition, this series visualizes the sensory afterimage that persists even within quickly vanishing time. Like ice cream that melts and disappears, what remains after speed is not form but sensation.
The paint residue from painting work is reborn as ice cream combined with light. If the 1st floor is the space where automobiles collide and explode with energy, the 2nd floor is the space where the memory of color quietly settles after that collision.
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Exhibition Information
Exhibition VELOCITY : The Afterimage of Speed
Dates June 26 – July 5, 2026
Venue Domoheon, Busan
Organizer Busan Metropolitan City | BEXCO | MUSEUM1
Artists Minseok Kang, Seongmin Kim, Yongmin Kim, Jaerok Jang
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