Bio

b. 1988, Incheon, S.Korea

Lives and works in Vienna, Austria 

Selected Exhibitions 

2024

Pansori - a soundscape of the 21st century, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea

This is the time of sweet sweet change for us all, CALM-La meute art center, Lausanne, Switzerland

Habiter le Monde, Château - Centre d’Art Contemporain de la Ville d’Aubenas, Aubenas, France 

2023

Latent Rhythm, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, USA

Insides Out, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

The man who lost his skeleton, Gallery Derouillon, Paris, France

Life on its own, Kunstraum Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria

Eartheathers, Lustwarande, Tilburg, Netherlands

Recasted Relations, Exhibit museum, Vienna, Austria

And then an insurmountable tension, to the level of incommensurability, Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, Italy

On the edge of all this sprawl of night and cities, Super Dakota Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Swallets, curated by Domen Ograjenšek, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Breathing Timemarker, school, Vienna, Austria (Solo) 

2022

Reference Festival „Infinitude“, Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, Germany

Klammern aus denen Blätter Sprießen, Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA Klammern aus denen Blätter Sprießen, Scherben, Berlin, Germany

Embodied Structures, CIVA Festival, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria

Time Warp, UA26, Vienna, Austria

YEIN LEE & NOUR JAOUDA, Paulina Caspari Gallery, Munich, Germany 

Needle & Balloon, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Center of Contemporary Art, Trnava, Slovakia Devouring Chaos, Loggia, Munich, Germany (Solo)

Portal, Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (Solo) 

2021

Rejuvenate Body Order Now, Le Box, Toulouse, France (Solo)

Stormy Weather, Centre culturel suisse, Paris, curated by Katharina Brandl & Claire Hoffman, France Symbiotic Agencies, Gallery Körnerpark, Berlin, curated by Creamcake, Germany

Reel It Out Rule It In, UA26, Vienna, Austria 

2020

A skeleton, just like the rest of us, Christine Meyer Gallery, Munich, curated by Franziska Lindhart, Germany Stormy Weather, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, curated by Katharina Brandl & Claire Hoffman, Austria

Stress Rehearsal, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, curated by Malou Solfjeld, Austria

Everything's going to hell in handbag, Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria

Mit Bergen den Blick reparieren, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Curated by Céline Sturuger, Austria 

Crosspolination, Loggia, Vienna (Duo with Ivan Pérard), Austria 

2019

In-Visible Realness, PS120, Berlin curated by Ben Livne Weitzman, Germany 

The Chasm, Franz Josef Kai3, curated by Yves-Michel Sass, Vienna, Austria 

Fixing my gaze, Pferd, Vienna, Austria 

2018

Das Jub Jub, Gallery 5020, Salzburg, Austria

Hyper Again, MMIII Kunstverein, Mönchengladbach, Germany Painter, Plumber, Justice, Vienna, Austria 

Press 

2024

Artnet, Six Breakout Stars of the Gwangju Biennale

2023

Artnews, Yein Lee’s Beautiful, Terrifying Sculptures Give Space to Fragile Bodies

Art in America, 20 New Talent, Alex Greenberger

Learning from the non-human, Yein Lee's sculptures point to a posthuman, feminist future, Text by Christa Benzer, Heft 1/2023, Springerin 

2022

Artist Yein Lee contemplates today’s golden age of information and technology, Stirworld 

2021

PARNASS UP&COMING JUNGE KUNSTSZENE · WIEN, DÜSSELDORF & KÖLN

CURA 37. Portraits, YEIN LEE, Text by Johanna Thorell

PW magazine, Yein Lee: »Flowers Get Cable Stem«, by Alexandra-Maria Toth

Coeval magazine by Giulia Ottavia Frattini

Nasty Magazine by Antoine Schafroth, Editor Maria Abramenk

AQNB "Let the hot glue drip: Yein Lee on the unknown possibilities of her corporeal junk forms for 3hd Festival’s Symbiotic Agencies", March 26th 2021 

Grants 

2022

Start scholarship, Ministry of the Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Austria 

Start-Atelier program, City of Vienna, Austria Würdiger-Prize, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria 

Collection

City of Vienna, Vienna Museum