‌환기재단의 설립과 함께 설립자 김향안에 의해 제정된 『프리환기 Prix Whanki』는 세계 각 곳에서 활동하는 작가들을 후원, 동시대적 시각을 중심으로 모두를 위한 열린 문화예술의 장을 마련하는데 기여해 온 공모사업이다. 환기미술관은 1992년 개관 이후 환기재단·환기 미술관의 설립자인 김향안의 유지를 계승하여 동시대 작가의 창작의지를 독려하고 열정을 후원하고 있으며, 최근 10년간 《푸른빛의 울림》(2008), 《점으로부터 점으로》(2009), 《진실한 남자》(2015), 《FACE》(2015), 《당신과 나 사이 In between You and I》(2016), 《내가 꽃이 었을 때 When I was a flower》(2016), 《neither here nor there》(2017) 등을 진행하였다. 지원자격, 장르 등에 제한을 두지 않고 진행되는 『프리환기 Prix Whanki』 작품공모는 작품 심사를 진행함에 있어 작가이력보다는 응모작에 집중, 작가의 창작의 과정, 그 과정의 시간에 우선적으로 주목하는 바를 최우선으로 하며, 이와 같은 유형의 공모사업 추진을 통해서 많은 작가들에게 창작의 새로운 발견, 도약을 위한 계기 마련을 지원하는 바를 목표로 한다. 공모 최종 선정작은 환기미술관 학예실과 작가의 워크샵을 통해서 특별전으로 기획되어 소개된다.
환기재단·환기미술관은 『프리환기 Prix Whanki 2017』 공모당선작으로 김윤경 작가의 《공간입기 Wearing Space》를 선정하고, 2018년 ‘프리환기 Prix Whanki 선정작 특별전’ 으로 소개한다. 김윤경 작가의 《공간입기 Wearing Space》는 ‘공간 특정적인 작품’으로서의 본 공모주제의 구현을 위해 고전과 현대를 넘나드는 방대한 스토리텔링을 기반으로 섬세하면 서도 압도적인 에너지가 내재된 조형공간으로 재해석하였다.

‌ 『Prix Whanki』 is a public contest established by the founder KIM HyangAn with the Whanki Foundation. It has sponsored writers from all over the world and helped set up an open cultural art center for around the world, focusing on the perspective of contemporary.
Since its opening in 1992, the museum has succeeded KIM HyangAn, the founder of the Whanki Foundation and the Whanki Museum of Art, encouraging the creative will of contemporary artists and supporting their passion.
Furthermore, it has held the exhibitions The Echo of Blue (2008), From the Dot to the Dot (2009), Honest Man (2015), FACE (2015), In Between You and I (2016), When I was a flower (2016), neither here, nor there (2017) and many more for the last ten years.
In evaluating the work of arts, the contest of 『Prix Whanki』 which is conducted without limitation on qualification of application and genre, its priority is to focus on the process of the artists’ creation and the time of the creation, rather than on the artists’ career. In addition, while prosecuting this type of contest, the main objective is to support more artists, so they can discover new creation and set up opportunities for growth. The final selection of the contest is designed and presented as a special exhibition through a workshop of the artist and a curator at the Whanki Museum.
Whanki Foundation and Whanki Museum select KIM Yun-kyung's Wearing Space as the winner of the 『Prix Whanki 2017』 and introduce it as a ‘the Prix Whanki 2018 Selection Special Exhibition’. KIM Yun-kyung's Wearing Space reinterpreted as a design space that contain delicacy and overwhelming energy, based on extensive storytelling across the classics and modern times for the implementation of space-specific artwork, the theme of this contest.

‌『Prix Whanki』 2018 Selection Special Exhibition
Kim Yun-kyung 《Wearing Space》 / 2018. 07. 28 ~ 09. 30 /
 
 
‌The dark narrow staircase leads us into deeper darkness, and at the end of the dark passage, there is a door. The door, which is too dark to pass through, narrow as you walk in, and contain uncomfortable feeling in twisted diagonal lines, is the first frontier in the exhibition to suggest a "Choice": “look and turn around” or “enter the space”.
In the strange space which you can face by “Choice” from the “boundary line”, Kim Yun-kyung reflect Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ as a background of space storytelling a song for pilgrimage to the brightest light in the deepest darkness. Then, as the first "Choice" and boundary that humans overlay their bodies, she set ‘clothes’ as a motif for storytelling and details the space.
Just as human life always continues its journey in the line of desire and choice opposite the boundary behind it, every conversation in this room originates from the 'boundary’ that it encounters in every corner of the journey. The ‘clothes’ as a ‘boundary’, are the most personal choices, and distinguish and connect one and the outside at the same time and visualize the epic towards the ultimate point in space throughout the desire and joy of life, the death of the flesh and the desire for permanency, and crime & punishment.
Kim Yun-kyung's sculpture space 《Wearing Space》 created by adding layers of texture to the space, leads us to a high pitch, low pitch, sharp and dull flow, just like a symphony performance by a huge orchestra. Because the human being is infinitely weak, yet the irresistible desire to achieve the goal, this space enlightens the value of journey and present time that you must go through many aspects of “life”.