Jeewi Lee
born 1987 Seoul, South Korea
lives and works in Berlin and Seoul

jeewi lee is a Berlin-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice — spanning site-specific installations and interventions, video and image series — examines memory, time and decay. Important for her work are the performative marks and imprints of the everyday, collecting and preserving “the trace” as a pictorial element and recorded archive of lived social and historical events. She questions the sphere of visual perception through drawing attention to the unnoticed, the disregarded and the seemingly non-existent. While traces appear in abstract and minimal form, they contain indexicality and narrative elements; trace both physically and conceptually exists as residues of past lives, recalling the passage of time — a visual allegory for the lived experiences of history, place, memory and the body.

Lee studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts and at Hunter College University in New York. She graduated in 2014 as a master student in Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Berlin and held her MFA in 2018 in the postgraduate study Art in Context. She has received various grants and artist residencies, including the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Villa Romana Florenz, the CAA, Al Ma´mal Foundation and the Kunstfond Foundation. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Kunstverein Hamburg; Korean Embassy, Berlin; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; and Sculpturepark Schlossgut Schwante.

In 2024, Lee will have her first solo exhibition in New York at signs and symbols.

selected works

For inquiries or more information, please contact info@signsandsymbols.art.

gallery exhibitions