© Courtesy of Yein Lee and Bremond Capela
Yein Lee
Biography
Born in 1988, Incheon, KR
Lives and works in Vienna, AT
Yein 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.
Yein Lee (born in 1988, lives and works in Vienna, AT) earned a B.F.A. in Traditional Asian Painting from Hongik University (Seoul, KR), before continuing her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Vienna, AT), where she received a Magister artium. Her work was recently presented at the 15th Gwangju Biennale (KR), the Schinkel Pavilion (Berlin, DE), Belvedere 21 and Kunstraum Niederösterreich (Vienna, AT), Centre d’Art La Meute (Lausanne, CH), Château – Centre d’Art Contemporain de la Ville d’Aubenas (Aubenas, FR), the Centre Culturel Suisse (Paris, FR), the Exhibit Museum (Vienna, AT), and Palazzo San Giuseppe (Polignano a Mare, IT), among others.
Curriculum vitae
Solo and two-person exhibitions
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2025dispel, Bremond Capela, Paris, FR
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2023Breathing Timemarker, school, Vienna, AT
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2022Devouring Chaos, Loggia, Munich, DE
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YEIN LEE & NOUR JAOUDA, Paulina Caspari Gallery, Munich, DE
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2021Rejuvenate Body Order Now, Le Box, Toulouse, FR
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2020Crosspolination, duo with Ivan Pérard, Loggia, Vienna, AT
Group exhibitions
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2025Aftershock, Podium Gallery, Hongkong, CN
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Fragments, Commune Gallery, Vienna, AT
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2024Neuro Hard, Con Gallery, Tokyo, JP
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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
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2023Latent Rhythm, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, US
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Insides Out, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, DE
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The man who lost his skeleton, Gallery Derouillon, Paris, FR
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Life on its own, Kunstraum Schwaz, Schwaz, AT
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Eartheathers, Lustwarande, Tilburg, NL
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Recasted Relations, Exhibit museum, Vienna, AT
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And then an insurmountable tension, to the level of incommensurability, Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, IT
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On the edge of all this sprawl of night and cities, Super Dakota Gallery, Brussels, BE
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Swallets, curated by Domen Ograjenšek, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
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2022Reference Festival “Infinitude”, Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, DE
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Klammern aus denen Blätter Sprießen, Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles, US
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Klammern aus denen Blätter Sprießen, Scherben, Berlin, DE
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Embodied Structures, CIVA Festival, Belvedere 21, Vienna, AT
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Time Warp, UA26, Vienna, AT
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Needle & Balloon, curated by Michal Stolárik, Center of Contemporary Art, Trnava, SK
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2021Stormy Weather, curated by Katharina Brandl & Claire Hoffman, Centre culturel suisse, Paris, FR
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Symbiotic Agencies, curated by Creamcake, Gallery Körnerpark, Berlin, DE
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Reel It Out Rule It In, UA26, Vienna, AT
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2020A skeleton, just like the rest of us, curated by Franziska Lindhart, Christine Meyer Gallery, Munich, DE
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Stormy Weather, curated by Katharina Brandl & Claire Hoffman, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, AT
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Stress Rehearsal, curated by Malou Solfjeld, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AT
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Everything’s going to hell in handbag, Haus Wien, Vienna, AT
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Mit Bergen den Blick reparieren, curated by Céline Sturuger, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, AT
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2019In-Visible Realness, curated by Ben Livne Weitzman, PS120, Berlin, DE
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The Chasm, curated by Yves-Michel Sass, Franz Josef Kai3, Vienna, AT
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Fixing my gaze, Pferd, Vienna, AT
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2018Das Jub Jub, Gallery 5020, Salzburg, AT
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Hyper Again, MMIII Kunstverein, Mönchengladbach, DE
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Painter, Plumber, Justice, Vienna, AT
Biennials
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2024Pansori - a soundscape of the 21st century, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, KR
Awards
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2022Start scholarship, Ministry of the Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Vienna, AT
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Start-Atelier program, Vienna, AT
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Würdiger-Prize, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT
Collections
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Vienna Museum, Vienna, AT
Education
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2022Magister, Object-Sculpture, Academy of Fine Art Vienna, Vienna, AT
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2013Bachelor of Fine Art, Traditional Asian Painting, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, KR