Lee Bul, one in all Korea’s main artists, will now be represented by Hauser & Wirth. The gallery can have two works by her in its sales space at Artwork Basel Hong Kong subsequent week. Subsequent 12 months, the gallery will mount a solo present for her in New York.
The transfer to Hauser & Wirth signifies that Lee will now not work together with her two longtime sellers: Thaddaeus Ropac, who has proven her since 2007, and Lehmann Maupin, who has proven her since 2008. Nonetheless, Hauser & Wirth will share illustration with Lee’s Seoul gallery, BB&M, which has proven her since 2022.
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For the reason that Nineteen Nineties, Lee has been recognized for interdisciplinary observe—one comprising sculptures, installations, performances, and work—that has checked out how know-how has altered our lives. and She’s additionally targeted on the achievement of, or estrangement from, utopian beliefs as soon as provided by know-how.
Amongst her most well-known collection on this vein are her “Cyborg” sculptures and her alien-like “Anagram” works from the early 2000s. At Artwork Basel Hong Kong, Hauser & Wirth will show Untitled (Anagram Leather-based #11 T.O.T.), from 2003/2018, a spindly leather-covered forged fiberglass sculpture and new summary portray Perdu CCIX.
Most not too long ago, Lee’s work was prominently featured on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York as a part of the museum’s facade fee. Her work will once more function on the Met in its forthcoming group exhibition “Monstrous Magnificence: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie.” Later this 12 months, she can have a touring mid-career retrospective that may debut on the Leeum Museum of Artwork in Seoul in September earlier than heading to M+ in Hong Kong in March 2026.
On the biennial circuit, she has featured within the 1999 and 2019 editions of the Venice Biennale, the 2016 Sydney Biennale, the 2018 Bangkok Artwork Biennale, Manifesta 14 in 2022, and Prospect.1 in New Orleans in 2008.
“Lee [Bul] is acknowledged because the foremost Korean artist of her technology,” Hauser & Wirth president Marc Payot stated in an announcement. “Combining conceptual rigor and a nuanced method to materiality with a deep and profound humanism, her work continues to evolve in fascinating new instructions. Lee has expressed admiration for artists in our gallery’s roster, specifically Phyllida Barlow and Louise Bourgeois, and factors of connection inside our program. Now within the fourth decade of her profession, she is seen as a pioneer by youthful generations of artists who’re deeply influenced by the sensibility of her early work, her iconoclastic performances and the multi-sensory installations that expanded the formal and conceptual boundaries of visible artwork.”
