Short bio
Yein Lee (b. 1988, S.Korea) lives and works in Vienna. After studying visual arts in Seoul, she continued her education in painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her work has recently been presented in group exhibitions at the Centre culturel suisse, Paris; Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin; Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna; Christine Mayer Gallery, Munich; The Pool, Istanbul; Loggia, Vienna; EXILE, Vienna, among others.
Exhibitions
2021 'Symbiotic Agencies', Gallery Körnerpark, Berlin, curated by Creamcake
‘Rejuvenate Body Order Now’, Le Box, Toulouse, France (Solo)
'Stormy Weather', Centre culturel suisse, Paris, curated by Katharina Brandl & Claire Hoffman
2020 'Stormy Weather', Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, curated by Katharina Brandl & Claire Hoffman
'A skeleton, just like the rest of us,' Christine Meyer Gallery, Munich, curated by Franziska Lindhart
‘Stress Rehearsal’, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, curated by Malou Solfjeld
'The days are just packed'. The Pool, Istanbul
'Everything's going to hell in handbag', Haus Wien, Vienna
'Mit Bergen den Blick reparieren', Kunstverein Kärnten
'Crosspolination', Loggia, Vienna
'Cruel Summer Camp', Exile Gallery, selected by Angels Miralda, Veronika Čechová, Peter Sit, Vienna
2019 'In-Visible Realness', PS120, Berlin
'Work Together Stay Alive', Exile Gallery, curated by Tzvetnik, Vienna
'The Swamp of Lerna', Warehouse9, Copenhagen
'The Chasm', Franz Josef Kai3, curated by Yves-Michel Sass, Vienna
'Fixing my gaze', Pferd, Vienna
'Crust Flow', Starroom, Vienna
'Vertical River', AK46, Vienna
'Pat Pat Pat', Hfbk Gallery, Hamburg
'Sapperlot', Bauerngasse42, Vienna
'A sentient body', Spektakel Schauraum, Vienna
2018 ‘Ducks and drakes’, NUU, Vienna, Austria (Solo)
'Das Jub Jub’, Gallery 5020, Salzburg, Austria
'Hyper Again', MMIII Kunstverein, Mönchengladbach, Germany
'Fragmentation', Untitled Space Gallery, Shanghai, China
‘Salt and Pepper or not’, Hinticonti, Hamburg, Germany
'Hyper Again', Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria
‘Painter, Plumber’, Justice, Vienna, Austria
'A cosmic encounter’, Universitätsbibliothek, Vienna, Austria
2017 'Almost there’, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Munich
2015 'Fish in the bowl', Studio 218, Vienna, Austria
2013 'Zerosign', Museum of Hongik, Seoul, South Korea
2012 'This is not a brush’, Museum of Hongik, Seoul, South Korea
2010 'Color of yours', Gallery Gaia, Seoul, Korea
‘Hwa-Won' Ok-sang-sang-jum, Seoul, South Korea
Curatorial Project
2021 Co-curated with Ivan Pérard, ‘I feel bôite’, Loggia, Vienna
Sebastian Mittl, 'TEKTONICAKE', Loggia, Vienna
Céline Struger, 'Holloway - Das Gift is a Gift, Loggia, Vienna
Scholarships / Prize / Residency
2019 Strabag Art Prize (1st selected)
Project funding, AKbild, Vienna, Austria
2018 Max Ernst Stipendium (1st selected), Bruhl, Germany
26 Telax Award (shortlisted), Reus, Spain
Untitled Space Residency, Shanghai, China
Project funding, GegenKulturreferat, ÖH, Vienna, Austria
Sonderprojekt Förderung, ÖH, Vienna, Austria
2017 Project funding, AKbild, Vienna, Austria
Education
2019 - Magister. Prof.Julian Goethe at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2015 - 2018 studied with Prof.Daniel Richter, Prof. Ashley Hans Scheirl
2013 Bachelor of Fine Art at Hong-Ik University, Seoul