Working With Friend participates in ARTBUSAN 2024 with 12 artists. It is a place to come together and create new synergies while last year's 16 exhibitions were intimate one-on-one conversations with each friend. The works of artists with different backgrounds are gathered in another space and interact with each other. Under the WWF’s insight, their artworks are crossed and influenced by themselves and the result is an expanded experience. In Working With ARTBUSAN, we present young, sensual and energetic artists and make the opportunity to meet them in person. We invite you to feel the work with both your eyes and ears through the stories they will tell you.

Thibaud Herem is a French artist who is known for his own unique works drawn with 0.1mm thin lines. He is a keen observer and collector, and his love of architecture and nature allows him to capture their details with fine lines. His buildings based on architectural knowledge and rich imagination compress time and perspective even if they are just two-dimensional facades. In addition, his botanical series enliven our daily lives, capturing its energy with warm colors and fierce depictions. He will present a new series of fictional buildings based on Brutalism with the new bunjae series.

Youmin Kim creates special experiences through space. For him, all the elements that make up a space act as brushes to paint strokes on a canvas. The vertically stacked works have specific light, color, and atmosphere created by combining the elements. That three-dimensional forms he creates make us feel the depth of space and the entire space in which it’s placed. He explores the possibilities of expression that extend beyond line and surface to a spatial dimension. At Art Busan, he will present works that reveal the 'fill' and 'stroke' that are the basis of his work. His three-dimensional strokes color the entire space with light and color.

Todam draws out the residual images in the memory and presents them in a three-dimensional form. Distorted by time and personal experiences, the objects are familiar yet somehow unfamiliar. The seemingly unfinished works are the result of exhaustive sketching and dozens of simulations, which strangely trigger individual memories and cover the clear original images. Active in exhibitions and brand collaborations, he arranges Gundams ranging from 1 cm to 50 cm at Art Busan. Everyone can own a Gundam twisted by their own memories, even though they are all depicted differently. Kentaro Okawara's work is a medium for connecting with his surroundings and an expression of love, in which he reassembles moments from his life. He recalls the emotions of his daily life, transferring his small notes to the paper and canvas. These are mixed with his current emotions and melt on the layers of his works. The seemingly unrealistic and fairytale-like scenes invite viewers to recall their own scenes. Based in Tokyo, he now has a studio in Seoul and is active in New York, England, and elsewhere. At Art Busan, he will present a series of black drawings and large-scale canvas works that capture the many changes in his daily life over the past year.

Hyunji Jeon presents works that reflect her own balance, running her ceramic design studio IAAC Crafts. Through her self-focused work with the clay, she establishes a firm sense of aesthetics that emerges from naturalness and comfort rather than visual symmetry. She also seeks to reveal the beauty of ceramics by experimenting with its own role as an object rather than relying on social standards for craft. She will show works that capture the aesthetics of clay as a material in its own right. You can see ceramic works that are on the dichotomous border between art and craft.

Wonwoo Lee makes special ‘situations’ for audiences by various mediums such as installation and performance. The situations that the artist creates crack the ‘naturalness of our unconscious minds. His works, which often combine things of completely different characters or dramatically change familiar elements, create a sense of both familiarity and unfamiliarity. That offers a new perspective with his wit and humor. This time, He will present two new works derived from . This is a unique device that allows the artist to exhibit anywhere, beyond the limits of the actual space. The newly set up space allows him to freely show his ideals and invite people to take a closer look inside by inserting exhibits within exhibits, works within works.

Jean Jullien is an artist who uses simple and straightforward expressions to capture the warmth of his everyday life and the modern world. His family, friends and surroundings are his greatest inspirations, and his affection for them is reflected in his paintings. His paintings, filled with warm colors, present a different appeal with his simple and witty illustrations. Recently, he showed a large-scale collaboration with a creative director, Sarah Andelman at the Le Bon Marche in Paris. He is currently active and popular not only in Europe but also in Asia, including Korea, Japan and Shanghai. He will show the sculpture that he finished at a live drawing show in Seoul with his paintings of his friends. These works showcase his diverse work.

Nicolas Jullien is a French artist who works across the genres of sculpture, electronic music, and video. Currently, he focuses on sculptures that stimulate both the senses of sight and touch, and has exhibited widely in Europe, Japan and others. His works in hard wood are characterized by their unique sculptural qualities and playful gimmicks. His sculptures, with their warm colors, make the viewers laugh at the familiarity of his work. At Art Busan, he will be presenting works that express his unique perspective and senses of animals in our daily lives, which will be mixed with works by other artists and it creates a different landscape.

Yann Le Bec is an illustrator and painter who creates emotional landscapes in warm, filtered colors. The landscapes are depicted with a little rustic touch, as if the compositions are translated directly from the viewfinder to the canvas. In fact, he draws a lot of inspiration from landscape photographers. He shows the peaceful and beautiful landscapes of the French countryside where he spent his childhood. It's also fun to see the colors of the canvas borders with the paintings. Along with his brother, Gwendal Le Bec, he was first introduced to Korea last year, and will showcase his representative landscape works at Art Busan. He will also exhibit his wood paintings, which are quite different from his canvas works. Gwendal Le Bec is an artist who paints and illustrates landscapes in brilliant colors. Filled with cool, vibrant colors and rough touches, his paintings are a reflection of his own perspective and the energy of the time. His botanical works in particular have a strong ness of life. His works have enough presence as a single piece and enliven the space. After his first exhibition in Korea last year, he will present paintings that capture the landscape of his stay at Art Busan. The works range from small works that encapsulate the energy of the artist's work to large paintings that are fully energized.

Jungwook Mok intuitively captures a moment in the ever-flowing time, and then adds a sense of the present to create a single photograph that captures his own energy. Unlike simply recording the time, the work that adds his own light becomes a new moment where reality and emotion intersect, which leads to each viewer's own moment. He continues to showcase his own work, working at fashion, music, and video. This Art Busan 2024 is an extension of last year's , finished successfully. He presents new works that add a current perspective to the unpublished works. Radiofear is an electronic music producer and DJ based in Seoul. His music spans a wide range of genres including Detroit house, electro, house techno, and ambient. Since the release of his first album ‘Dataspace’ in 2021, he has been presenting his music as an exhibition alongside related objects and merchandise. To celebrate the release of his second album, ‘Skyline’, Radiofear is presenting a speaker designed and produced in collaboration with Lemon Seoul. The speakers, which are made by recombining the components of vintage speakers to fit the concept of the album, not only provide excellent acoustics but also play a big role as an object.