Yein Lee

Yein Lee. Courtesy of the artist.

Installation view of ‘Aftershock’ at PODIUM, Hong Kong, 22 March—24 May 2025. Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of PODIUM, Hong Kong.

Yein Lee, Arm sprouting branches, 2025, polymer gypsum, steel plate, electrical cables, epoxy putty, fiber glass, treated dry branch, acrylic ink, 60 x 20 x 37 cm (23.6 x 7.8 x 14.6 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.

Yein Lee, Arm sprouting branches (detail), 2025, polymer gypsum, steel plate, electrical cables, epoxy putty, fiber glass, treated dry branch, acrylic ink, 60 x 20 x 37 cm (23.6 x 7.8 x 14.6 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.

Yein Lee, Flap 2, 2025, galvanised steel plate, acrylic ink, lacquer, 40 x 30 cm (15.7 x 11.8 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.

Yein Lee, Flap 2 (detail), 2025, galvanised steel plate, acrylic ink, lacquer, 40 x 30 cm (15.7 x 11.8 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.

Yein Lee, Flap 1, 2025, galvanised steel plate, acrylic ink, lacquer, 80 x 50 cm (31.5 x 19.7 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.

Yein Lee, Flap 1 (detail), 2025, galvanised steel plate, acrylic ink, lacquer, 80 x 50 cm (31.5 x 19.7 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.

Installation view of ‘PANSORI, a Soundscape of the 21st Century’ at the 15th Gwangju Biennale, 07 September— 01 December 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Gwangju Biennale.

Biography
The practice of Yein Lee (b. 1988 in Seoul, lives and works in Vienna) spans sculpture, installation, painting, and performance, depicting the body in fragmented forms and radical transitoriness. By repurposing industrial materials and interweaving elements of technology and physical organisms, her works investigate the social and ecological collapse, reverberating the voices of the otherness through the bodies in crisis. Her solo and duo exhibitions include Con Gallery, Tokyo (2025), school, Vienna (2023), Center of Contemporary Art, Trnava (2022), Loggia, Munich (2022), Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City (2022), and Le Box, Toulouse (2021). She also participated in group exhibitions including the 15th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2024), CALM-La meute art center, Lausanne (2024), Château - Centre d’Art Contemporain de la Ville d’Aubenas, Aubenas (2024), Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen (2023), Kunstraum Schwaz, Schwaz (2023), Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare (2023), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2022), Scherben, Berlin (2022), Belvedere 21, Vienna (2022), UA26, Vienna (2021 & 2022), Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2021), Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna (2020), Das Weisse Haus, Vienna (2020), Haus Wien, Vienna (2020), amongst others. Her works are in the collection of the Vienna Museum, City of Vienna.

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Works

Yein Lee
Flap 2
2025
Galvanised steel plate, acrylic ink, lacquer
40 x 30 cm | 15.7 x 11.8 in

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Yein Lee
Flap 1
2025
Galvanised steel plate, acrylic ink, lacquer
80 x 50 cm | 31.5 x 19.7 in

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Yein Lee
Arm sprouting branches
2025
Polymer gypsum, steel plate, electrical cables, epoxy putty, fiber glass, treated dry branch, acrylic ink
60 x 20 x 37 cm | 23.6 x 7.8 x 14.6 in

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Exhibitions

Aftershock
Artists: Ivana Bašić, Ittah Yoda, Sihan Guo, Yein Lee, Diane Severin Nguyen
Hong Kong
22 March—24 May 2025

News

Artist Yein Lee is now participating the group exhibition ‘PANSORI, a Soundscape of the 21st Century’ at the 15th Gwangju Biennale

07 September 2024

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