News / Invitation

Lee Ufan aux Alyscamps, 2021
Copyright StudioLeeUfan / Photo by Claire Dorn

Dear Friends,

We are pleased to announce that from April 2022, Lee Ufan Arles, a permanent exhibition center for Lee Ufan's paintings and sculptures, will be accessible to the public in the Hotel Vernon in the heart of the city of Arles.

This private mansion, built between the 16th and 18th centuries, was acquired by the Lee Ufan Foundation to become the venue for a presentation of the artist's work in the same way as those already open in Naoshima (Japan) and in Busan (South Korea).

We hope to welcome you to Lee Ufan Arles next spring.

On this occasion, we will also be happy to meet you in the Lee Ufan « Requiem » exhibition which brings together under the curatorship of Alfred Pacquement an important set of 14 new works installed in the ancient necropolis of Alyscamps, one of the main heritage sites of the city of Arles.

Lee Ufan has respectfully invested these ancestral places by displaying his sculptures and paintings in the famous alley of sarcophagi that dot this city of the dead and in the Saint-Honorat church, an unfinished Romanesque building that concludes the tour.

Lee Ufan « Requiem » is viewable from October 30, 2021 to September 30, 2022.

Hoping to see you soon.

StudioLeeUfan

STARS: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World, Mori Art Museum, Jul 31, 2020 to Jan 3, 2021

STARS ARE NOT MADE OVERNIGHT!

YAYOI KUSAMA, LEE UFAN, TATSUO MIYAJIMA, TAKASHI MURAKAMI, YOSHITOMO NARA, HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, is proud to present STARS: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World from Friday, July 31, 2020, to Sunday, January 3, 2021.

The decades of postwar economic growth were punctuated in Japan by a series of national events including the Olympics and World Expo, as the country began to turn its gaze outward once more. In the contemporary art world, the period was characterized by debates on decolonization and multiculturalism, and the proliferation of new contemporary art settings, such as biennials and art fairs.

For this exhibition, we have chosen six artists whose careers propelled them beyond the confines of Japan during this period, earning them high acclaim today around the world, and across generations, and will trace the journey of these artists from their earliest to the latest works. STARS explores how the practice of each artist has been evaluated in the global context, and touch upon these artists’ pursuit of universal issues transcending nationality and culture; traditions and aesthetics; technology and subculture, while keeping in mind aspects of social, cultural and economic background unique and particular to Japan.

https://www.mori.art.museum/en/exhibitions/stars/index.html

Lee Ufan: Open Dimension, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Sep 27, 2019 to Sep 13, 2020

Photo by Cathy Carver

Lee Ufan: Open Dimension is an ambitious site-specific commission by the celebrated Korean artist Lee Ufan. The expansive installation, featuring 10 new sculptures from the artist’s signature and continuing Relatum series, marks Lee Ufan’s largest single outdoor sculpture project in the US, the first exhibition of his work in the nation’s capital, and the first time in the Hirshhorn’s 45-year history that its 4.3-acre outdoor plaza has been devoted, almost in its entirety, to the work of a single artist.

https://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/lee-ufan-open-dimension/

Lee Ufan, ACORNS AND WILDCAT & TRACES, Cahiers d'Art, From June 7 to September 28, 2019

Cahiers d'Art is proud to present two exhibitions of works on paper by Lee Ufan.

Cahiers d'Art is pleased to present Lee Ufan’s six new drypoint etchings, created especially for Cahiers d’Art, which are on display at Cahiers d'Art at 15, rue du Dragon.
Printed on Hahnemühle paper, the small ones are signed and numbered in an edition of 20.
Two 5-meter-long etchings on steel are produced at the Michael Woolworth studio in Paris and printed on Japan paper.

The complete series of Lee Ufan’s gouaches, “Acorns and Wildcat,” created in 1983 to illustrate the great Buddhist writer Kenji Miyazawa’s eponymous text, are on view at 14, rue du Dragon. These eleven gouaches, evolving from black to orange through blue and brown, are abstract calligraphies that not only develop the rich Buddhist consciousness of this famous tale, but communicate and portray its dreamlike and measureless scope

https://www.cahiersdart.com/news/2019/may-2019/lee-ufan-exhibitions-acorns-and-wildcat-traces

Major Exhibition of Early Work by Lee Ufan, Pioneer of the Japanese Mono-Ha Movement Opens at Dia:Beacon on May 5, 2019 - Long-term view

Relatum (formerly Iron Field), 1969/2019, sand and steel, Dia Art Foundation; Purchased with funds by the Samsung Foundation of Culture

The exhibition features five large-scale works, including three recently acquired installations Relatum (formerly System, 1969), Relatum (formerly Language, 1971), and Relatum (1974). At Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York, Lee’s work will be placed within the context of his peers who developed Minimal, Postminimal, and Land art practices contemporaneously, such as Michael Heizer, Donald Judd, Robert Smithson, and Michelle Stuart, tracing the formal, material, and conceptual relationships between these artists in Dia’s galleries for the first time. Opening on May 5, 2019, the exhibition will be on view for two years, encouraging long-term public and scholarly engagement with Lee’s work.

https://www.diaart.org/exhibition/exhibitions-projects/lee-ufan-exhibition