Hauser & Wirth announced the representation of Lee Bull South Korean artist. The gallery will replace the artist with the Seoul-based gallery with BB & M. Before Lee, Thaddaeus Ropac and Lehmann Maupina showed them that they both showed since 2007.
Lee will be two options in two options and wirth cabin at the cabin of Artea in Hong Kong next week: leather coated glass fiber and steel sculpture Untitled (Anagram Leather # 11 Tot) (2003/2018) and a new diptych paint Lost CCIX (2025). The first artist’s exhibition gallery will take place in New York in 2026.
Lee has a great reputation for interdisciplinary practices, spreads four decades and includes sculpture, installation, performance and paint. His work often examines the impact of technology in our lives to explore cyborg images to explore the issues of posthumanism and gender policy. It is perhaps known for “Cyborgs” and “anagrams” series, silicone, glass fibers and conventional materials like acrylic grains to represent futuristic bodies.
“Lee recognizes its generation as Korean artist,” said Hauser and Wirth President Marc Payot. “Combining conceptual sharpness and deep humanism and materiality, it continues to evolve in wonderful new directions. Now in the fourth decade of its career, it is a pioneer of the younger generations of artists who have a great influence of the sensibility of his early work and the most influence of multi-sensor facilities.
Yeongju was born in Yeongju, South Korea, Lee Hongik graduated from University in 1987 in sculpture. He got the protagonist in the 1990s, especially with his massive installation, mAjestic shine (1997). This workplace was shown on the decomposing fish secretly decorated, in the New York Museum Museum. He then chosen the Harald Szeemann Commissioner for the 1999 Venice Biennale exhibition. In the same year, Lee presented two facilities in the Pavilion of the Venetian Korean.
In the 2000s, Lee presented Solo exhibitions in prestigious organizations, including New York New Museum and Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain in Paris. His work has been on display at the biennial circuit in 2019 in the Venice Biennale, 2016 Sydney Biennial and Bangkok Art Biennal 2018.
In 2024, the Metropolitan Museum of New York designed sculptures to design niches of its fifth avenue iconic façade. “The Genesis Facade Committee: Lee Bul, Long Burgo Halo” will be on display until June 10.
