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Yein Lee

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Biography

Born in 1988, Incheon, South Korea
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria

Yein Lee is a South Korean artist who currently lives and works in Vienna. After receiving a B.F.A. in Traditional Asian Painting from Hongik University, Lee received an Magister from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Lee’s practice revolves around a system of becoming, procedural redefinition, and the structure of connectivity. Through the reuse of discarded objects as part of an installation, sculpture, painting, and performance, the assemblage format serves to capture personal experience and narrative, while also manifesting a contradictory attitude towards materials in the context of social and environmental crisis. Her works navigate the ambivalence surrounding contemporary commodity culture, the economy, and the political dynamics. As transient compositions, fluctuating roughness and fragility are at the forefront of her formal investigation. Her work has recently been presented internationally in group exhibitions at the 15th Gwangju Biennale, Centre d’Art La Meute, Château - Centre d’Art Contemporain de la Ville d’Aubenas, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris; Belvedere 21, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, among others.

Exhibitions

Curriculum vitae

Solo and two-person exhibitions
  • 2025
    dispel, cadet capela, Paris, FR
  • 2023
    Breathing Timemarker, school, Vienna, AT
  • 2022
    Devouring Chaos, Loggia, Munich, DE
  • YEIN LEE & NOUR JAOUDA, Paulina Caspari Gallery, Munich, DE
  • 2021
    Rejuvenate Body Order Now, Le Box, Toulouse, FR
  • 2020
    Crosspolination, duo with Ivan Pérard, Loggia, Vienna, AT
Group exhibitions
  • 2025
    Aftershock, Podium Gallery, Hongkong, CN
  • Fragments, Commune Gallery, Vienna, AT
  • 2024
    Neuro Hard, Con Gallery, Tokyo, JP
  • This is the time of sweet sweet change for us all, CALM-La meute art center Habiter le Monde, Château - Centre d’Art Contemporain de la Ville d’Aubenas, Aubenas, FR
  • 2023
    Latent Rhythm, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, US
  • Insides Out, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, DE
  • The man who lost his skeleton, Gallery Derouillon, Paris, FR
  • Life on its own, Kunstraum Schwaz, Schwaz, AT
  • Eartheathers, Lustwarande, Tilburg, NL
  • Recasted Relations, Exhibit museum, Vienna, AT
  • And then an insurmountable tension, to the level of incommensurability, Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, IT
  • On the edge of all this sprawl of night and cities, Super Dakota Gallery, Brussels, BE
  • Swallets, curated by Domen Ograjenšek, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
  • 2022
    Reference Festival “Infinitude”, Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, DE
  • Klammern aus denen Blätter Sprießen, Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles, US
  • Klammern aus denen Blätter Sprießen, Scherben, Berlin, DE
  • Embodied Structures, CIVA Festival, Belvedere 21, Vienna, AT
  • Time Warp, UA26, Vienna, AT
  • Needle & Balloon, curated by Michal Stolárik, Center of Contemporary Art, Trnava, SK
  • 2021
    Stormy Weather, curated by Katharina Brandl & Claire Hoffman, Centre culturel suisse, Paris, FR
  • Symbiotic Agencies, curated by Creamcake, Gallery Körnerpark, Berlin, DE
  • Reel It Out Rule It In, UA26, Vienna, AT
  • 2020
    A skeleton, just like the rest of us, curated by Franziska Lindhart, Christine Meyer Gallery, Munich, DE
  • Stormy Weather, curated by Katharina Brandl & Claire Hoffman, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, AT
  • Stress Rehearsal, curated by Malou Solfjeld, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AT
  • Everything’s going to hell in handbag, Haus Wien, Vienna, AT
  • Mit Bergen den Blick reparieren, curated by Céline Sturuger, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, AT
  • 2019
    In-Visible Realness, curated by Ben Livne Weitzman, PS120, Berlin, DE
  • The Chasm, curated by Yves-Michel Sass, Franz Josef Kai3, Vienna, AT
  • Fixing my gaze, Pferd, Vienna, AT
  • 2018
    Das Jub Jub, Gallery 5020, Salzburg, AT
  • Hyper Again, MMIII Kunstverein, Mönchengladbach, DE
  • Painter, Plumber, Justice, Vienna, AT
Biennials
  • 2024
    Pansori - a soundscape of the 21st century, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, KR
Awards
  • 2022
    Start scholarship, Ministry of the Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Vienna, AT
  • Start-Atelier program, Vienna, AT
  • Würdiger-Prize, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT
Collections
  • Vienna Museum, Vienna, AT
Education
  • 2022
    Magister, Object-Sculpture, Academy of Fine Art Vienna, Vienna, AT
  • 2013
    Bachelor of Fine Art, Traditional Asian Painting, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, KR
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