Genesis: The Continuum of Aesthetics

14 Mar - 4 Apr, 2026

PBG Marais, Paris


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PBG opens a new space in Le Marais, where art, fashion, and history have accumulated over time. The inaugural exhibition, Genesis: The Continuum of Aesthetics, presents an aesthetic sensibility and visual language shaped in Korea within the artistic context of France. It highlights how layers of time and contemporary perception form a continuous movement, marking a point of departure for situating these practices within an international context. Contemporary art in Korea has evolved from a longstanding attitude of restraint and reflection, developing through encounters with diverse visual languages. This development has unfolded through continuity rather than rupture, with tradition reconfiguring itself within present forms. The participating artists — Choi Youngwook, Ha Taeim, Yoon Byungrock, Maria Chang, Lim MiRyang, and Choi Hyeji — translate this accumulated sensibility into the present through distinct contemporary approaches. The lines found in Choi Youngwook’s moon jars evoke meditation and circulation; Ha Taeim’s chromatic refractions create perceptual strata. Yoon Byungrock reveals the vitality of matter through meticulous realism, while Maria Chang condenses organic force within dense textures. Lim MiRyang inscribes the flow of the unconscious through dynamic gesture, and Choi Hyeji reinterprets everyday scenes through a contemporary gaze. Rather than directly citing tradition, their works demonstrate how a sensibility shaped in Korea operates within a modern visual language. In Paris, this sensibility encounters new perspectives and unfolds further layers of meaning. The exhibition marks the first chapter in revealing how an aesthetic transmitted through time assumes renewed presence today.




Lim Miryang reveals endlessly expanding abstract images with vivid colors of shamanism and specifies her traces of vision resulting in works that exudes dynamic sense rather than stationary. Her works are characterized by highly meticulous contours and bold colors of feelings.

Hyeji Choi is an artist who tells the story of life with a particular medium, cement. Her work captures our lives with vivid colors and matières that seem to have been created by a child using clay. The artist, who records everything as if it were the feeling of a day viewed through a child's eyes, creates thematic vision by looking at life as the continuation of constant change.

Choi Youngwook is an artist who explores human encounters, separations, and the causal nature of life through the motif of the moon jar. Through a meditative process of layering and sanding white stone powder and gesso, he renders crack-like lines that metaphorically trace the paths of human existence. His signature Karma series combines Korean aesthetics with profound contemplation, offering viewers a sense of healing and quiet reflection.

Maria Chang

Maria Chang is an artist who visualizes inner narratives and personal sensibilities through a distinctive visual language. Employing layered approaches and diverse media, her work delicately unfolds the flow of time, memory, and emotion, balancing intuitive resonance with conceptual depth. Positioned at the intersection of contemporary awareness and personal experience, her practice invites viewers into moments of reflection and emotional engagement.

Yoon Byoungrock

Yoon Byoungrock is an artist known for exploring the boundary between reality and illusion through his signature motif of apples. Combining hyperrealistic depiction with shaped canvases, his works create a sense of visual expansion beyond the frame while metaphorically addressing memory, desire, and the commodification of nature. Extending painting into a spatial and formal language, his practice invites viewers into immersive visual experiences and contemporary reflections.

Taeim Ha

Ha Taeim is an abstract painter who visualizes emotion and thought through the repetition of layered color bands. By constructing rhythmic compositions of curved forms and translucent layers, she explores a “language of color” that transcends verbal communication. Her signature Un Passage series reveals the flow of time, emotion, and invisible connections between individuals through the movement and interaction of color.


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PBG CO., LTD.
4F, 166, Jangchungdan-ro, Jung-gu, 
Seoul,  Korea 

Email : pbg@printbakery.com
Tel : +82 1599 3403
Fax : +82 2 391 2017