Short bio

Yein Lee (b. 1988, Seoul) 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