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Lee Bul

LEE BUL

Lee Bul: Prints BB&M 21 May–15 June 2024 Seoul
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Press Release

BB&M is pleased to announce an exhibition of prints by Lee Bul. Adapting the themes and visual language of her oeuvre to this medium for the first time, the artist presents five new series of works on paper created at the STPI Creative Workshop, Singapore, that explore innovative possibilities in screen- and foil printing techniques, as well as the use of such unconventional materials as copper powder and iron filings. These works continue to elaborate on the forms and concepts in her renowned biomorphic sculptures and architectural installations that delve into the contrapuntal interplay between beauty and decay, technology and failure, utopian dreams and historical trauma.

The exhibition also coincides with the release of Lee Bul: In Her Words, a collection of archival interviews with the artist from 1997 to 2023. Edited by Harry C. H. Choi and published by BB&M Contemporary Art Books in a bilingual English and Korean edition, the volume provides invaluable insights into the workings of the artist’s mind and the evolution of her practice over a nearly four-decade career, ahead of the unveiling of her landmark commission for the facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in September of this year.

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Installation Views

Lee Bul. Installation view, Lee Bul: Prints, BB&M, Seoul, 2024
Lee Bul. Installation view, Lee Bul: Prints, BB&M, Seoul, 2024
Lee Bul. Untitled – PI, 2023 (Left) and Untitled – SFLP, 2023 (Right).
Lee Bul. Installation view, Lee Bul: Prints, BB&M, Seoul, 2024
About the Artist

Widely recognized as the foremost Korean artist of her generation, Lee Bul has been the subject of solo shows at major museums throughout the world, including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2002); Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2004); Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris (2007); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2012); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); Hayward Gallery, London (2018); and Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2018).

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About the Gallery

Since its inception in 2009 as an art consultancy in Seoul, BB&M has been instrumental in the rise of some of the most acclaimed contemporary Korean artists on the international stage. BB&M’s current iteration as an independent gallery is a collaboration between James B. Lee (Founding Principal) and Si Young Hur (Principal), who brings extensive experience as director and partner in Seoul’s leading galleries, where she was responsible for exhibitions of such artists as Thomas Struth, Olafur Eliasson, Liam Gillick, and Yun Hyong-keun, a key figure in Dansaekhwa.

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BBM contemporary art gallery in Seoul South Korea
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11am – 6pm
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