Korean artist Kim Hyun-jung opens an exhibition on Thursday in Berlin, the Korean Cultural Center in Germany said.

The opening ceremony, attended by the artist herself, will take place at 6 p.m. local time in the center's gallery.

One of the most promising young Korean artists, she is widely credited for pushing the boundaries of Korean art by presenting thought-provoking themes with prickly yet humorous wit and experimenting with new artistic techniques in her paintings.

Last September she was the youngest painter invited to a special exhibition of Korean art at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. In January, she held a solo exhibition at the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

In her most recent exhibition last month, more than 67,000 people, an impressive number for a solo exhibition in Korea, visited the Gallery Is in downtown Seoul.

Frequently communicating with her followers on social media sites, the 27-year-old is nicknamed "the idol of Korean art."

Through her description of a young woman, elegantly dressed in the traditional Korean hanbok and acting incongruously wild, she reflects upon the irony and humor of "Naesoong," or playing innocent in Korean, which is usually used to describe a woman who behaves with false modesty or is being coy. The exhibition runs until June 25. (Yonhap)