Yein Lee (b. 1988 KR) is a South Korean artist currently living and working in Vienna. After receiving a B.F.A. in Traditional Asian Painting from Hongik University, Lee received an MA in Object-Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
Across sculpture, installation, and performance, Lee’s practice operates through a methodology of continual becoming—an iterative, non-linear process wherein form, subjectivity, and spatial structure remain in negotiation. Her work engages a material ontology that privileges flux over fixity, generating environments that are at once corporeal and conceptual: porous, unruly, and suspended between states of emergence and dissolution. Her compositions resist fixity. They are temporal bodies that are fractured, precarious, and insistently alive, where fragility and abrasion are not breakdowns but modes of inquiry. As transient compositions, fluctuating roughness and fragility are at the forefront of a formal investigation. In their impermanence, they mark out a space for resistance, vulnerability, and critical reflection.
Her work has recently been presented internationally in group exhibitions at the 15th Gwangju Biennale, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany, Centre d'Art La Meute, Château - Centre d'Art Contemporain de la Ville d'Aubenas, Centre Culturel Suisse, France; Belvedere 21, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, among others.