Draft:Jeewi Lee

Jeewi Lee (korean 이지위; * 1987 in Seoul, Korea) is an artist from South Korea. She lives and works in Berlin and Seoul.

Life and artistic development
Jeewi Lee grew up in an artist family and spent her childhood in various locations in Germany and Korea. Frequent moves from the age of five had a profound effect on her, a theme that is evident in her art. Lee studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts in the class of Prof. Robert Lucander and at Hunter College, City University of New York, graduating in 2014 as a Master of Fine Arts from the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2018 she received her MFA in the postgraduate programme Art in Context with Prof. Dr. Jörg Heiser at University of the Arts Berlin. She has received numerous grants and scholarships, including the Villa Romana Florence Art Prize, the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen junger westen Art Prize, and several scholarships from the Stiftung Kunstfonds. Lee has participated in artist residencies at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation in Senegal (2020) and the USA (2023). Her work has been shown in numerous galleries and institutions, including the 'Festival of Future Nows' at the Neue Nationalgalerie (2014), Museum Hamburger Bahnhof (2017), 'Wände/Wände' at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2020) and 'Ruhr Ding: Climate" at Urban Künste Ruhr (2021) . Other group exhibitions include 'Scratching the Surface' at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum der Gegenwart in Berlin (2021), 'Checkpoint: Border Views from Korea' at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2022) , 'Indigo Waves and Other Stories' at the Martin-Gropius-Bau (2023) and 'Into the Woods - Klima Biennale Wien' at the Kunst Haus Wien (2024). In 2021, she co-founded the transcultural project collective "Dry Ocean" with artists from Dakar and Berlin.

Solo exhibitions

 * 2024: Traces of Journeys, signs and symbols, NYC (upcoming)
 * 2023: Palimpsest, Segments of Re-enscription, German Architecture Center DAZ, Berlin
 * 2023: Past Tense, Sexauer Showroom, Berlin


 * 2021: junger westen – solo position, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
 * 2021: Embodied Memories, OH Gallery, Dakar
 * 2021: Revision, Staedtische Galerie (City Museum) Ostfildern
 * 2021: Vor·wurf, Sexauer Gallery Berlin
 * 2020: re-, Kunstverein Hamburg
 * 2018: Inzision, Sexauer Gallery, Berlin
 * 2018: Der Abgang, Lichthaus Arnsberg / Kunstverein Arnsberg


 * 2017: Marbling, Bar Babette, Berlin
 * 2016: Blinder Beifall, Sexauer Gallery, Berlin
 * 2015: Sediment, Arndt Gallery, Berlin
 * 2015: Ich_No_Gramm, Zönotéka, Berlin
 * 2014: Abrieb, ZQM, Berlin
 * 2013: Spurlauschen, DKS Gallery, Berlin

Selected group exhibitions

 * 2024: Non Objectified, Kino Saito, Verplanck/ New York
 * 2024: Into the Woods, Kunsthaus Wien – climate biennial Vienna
 * 2024: Dissonance, Stadtgalerie (City Museum) Kiel
 * 2023: The Notion of Silence, Kunsthaus Erfurt
 * 2023: Painted Matter, Kunstverein Arnsberg
 * 2023: Checkpoint. Border Views from Korea, SAW Center Ottawa
 * 2023: When the sirens howl (it ́s on us), Weltecho Gallery, Chemnitz
 * 2023: "Shift" as part of the project Motus, BAW Garden - Neue National Gallery, Berlin
 * 2023: The Delicate Things That Girls Do, signs and symbols, New York
 * 2023: Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Gropiusbau Berlin
 * 2023: So it appears, Institute for Contemporary Art Virginia
 * 2022: Riboca 3 – Exercises in Respect, Riga Biennale (postponed)
 * 2022: At the Coalface, CID Grand-Hornu Museum, Hainaut
 * 2022: At first sight, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
 * 2022: Identität nicht nachgewiesen, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
 * 2022: Tabula Rasa / Terrain Vague, Staedtische Galerie (City Museum) Nordhorn
 * 2022: Transgresssive. Nonkonforme Zugänge zu Kunst und Stadt, Kühlhaus, Berlin
 * 2022: Checkpoint, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
 * 2022: An Instant Later, Britta Rettberg Gallery, Munich
 * 2022: Chronicle Disappearance, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar
 * 2022: Témoigner de l’origine, OH Gallery, Dakar
 * 2022: From „Abstraction“ to Abstraction, Foundation Stefan Gierowski, Warschau
 * 2021: By the Sea, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
 * 2021: Scratching the Surface, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum der Gegenwart, Berlin
 * 2021: Ruhr Ding: Klima, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Silbersee II am Haltern
 * 2021: Event Tree Analysis, Spiegelarche, Rolldisleben
 * 2021: Flow, Sepulchral Culture Museum, Kassel
 * 2020: la matière, OH Gallery, Dakar
 * 2020: Jahresgabenausstellung, Kunstverein in Hamburg
 * 2020: Wände I Walls, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
 * 2020: Studio Berlin, Boros Foundation x Berghain, Berlin
 * 2020: Group exhibition, Art Biesenthal, Wehrmuehle
 * 2020: Owned by Others, Museum Island, Berlin
 * 2020: Artists & Allies II, signs and symbols Gallery, New York
 * 2020: Come Together, Sexauer Gallery, Berlin
 * 2020: Synthetis, permanent installation, Sculpturepark Schlossgut Schwante, Berlin
 * 2020: The Rhythm of Giving and Taking, Kër Thiossane, Dakar
 * 2020: Intersection Tamba- Seeds for future memories, Centre Culturel, Tambacounda
 * 2019: Back There, Kunstverein Tiergarten / Galerie Nord, Berlin
 * 2019: Supplica per un´appendice, Kunstraum, Munich
 * 2018: Would have been II, Palazzo Ziino, Palermo
 * 2018: Die Informale, Buenos Aires
 * 2018: Thresholds. Limits of Space, BNKR, Munich
 * 2018: Would have been, Villa Romana, Florence
 * 2018: Artists & Allies, signs and symbols Gallery, New York
 * 2018: Kollidierende Gelüste, Korean embassy, Berlin
 * 2018: Last Dance, Kindl, Berlin
 * 2017: Good Friends, c/o Kunstpunkt, Berlin
 * 2017: Wir nennen es Arbeit, Galleria Opere Scelte, Turin
 * 2017: Festival of Future Nows II, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
 * 2017: New Adventures in Vexillology #3, Kunstverein Amrum
 * 2016: Struktion – Artweek 2016, Kühlhaus, Berlin
 * 2016: Die Geschichte hat einen Fehler / Zu viele Erzähler, Kunstverein Gütersloh
 * 2016: Dialog der Residuen, Gallery Villa Köppe, Berlin
 * 2015: Kunst&Konstrukt, Westraum, Berlin
 * 2015: Frames of War, Momenta, New York
 * 2014: Festival of Future Nows, Neue National Galerie, Berlin
 * 2014: Berlin Masters, Arndt Gallery, Berlin
 * 2012: Looking Glass Self, permanent installation - Humbolt University, Berlin

Grants

 * 2024: Artist-Residency Goethe Institute with DRY OCEAN Project Collective, Madrid
 * 2023: Artist-Residency Bethany - Anni & Joseph Albers Foundation, Connecticut
 * 2023: Seed, public sculpture - University of Heidelberg (upcoming 2025)
 * 2022: Artist-Residency Blank 100, Alentejo
 * 2022: Stiftung Kunstfond Neu Start Kultur, Bonn
 * 2021: Art award junger westen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
 * 2021: Grant funding for catalogue, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
 * 2020: Grant Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
 * 2020: Thread artist-residency - Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Sinthian
 * 2020: Grant CAA Berlin
 * 2020: Residency Al Ma’mal Foundation, Jerusalem (postponed)
 * 2018: Villa Romana art prize, Florence
 * 2015: Kwanjeong Lee, Chonghwan Foundation, Seoul
 * 2012: Dorothea-Konwiarz-scholarship, Berlin
 * 2011: jungart prize for painting, Berlin

Art Fairs

 * 2024: Art Düsseldorf
 * 2024: Art Brussels
 * 2023: Art Cologne
 * 2023: Art Düsseldorf
 * 2022: Art Düsseldorf
 * 2021: Artissima
 * 2019: Art Berlin
 * 2019: Art Brussels
 * 2018: Art Rotterdam

Selected literature
Lukas Feireiss, Sybille Krämer, Lydia Korndörfer, Index, 2023, ISBN 978-3-7757-5612-9 (Monograph of Jeewi Lee)