이미래(b. 1988)는 시멘트, 레진, 철, 석고, 비계 등 산업적이고 기계적인 재료를 활용하여 물성과 질감, 기계적인 운동이 드러나는 조각을 발표해 왔다. 액체의 순환을 야기하는 펌프 모터, 거친 질감의 시멘트와 비계, 구멍이 뚫린 다공의 패브릭은 유기적인 신체를 은유한다. 외피와 내피, 피부와 내부 기관의 경계를 무색하게 하는 이미래의 조각은 원시적인 동시에 고도화된 기계의 메커니즘을 상기시킨다.
작가의 최근 조각에서 드러나는 주요한 특징은 ‘보어(voer) 페티시’이다. 그것은 일종의 재현 불가능한 욕망으로 살아있는 대상을 통째로 삼켜 버림으로써 결국 대상에 대한 ‘거리’ 자체를 무화(無化)하는 상태에 이르는 것이다. 2022년 프랑크푸르트에서 《봐라, 나는 사랑에 미쳐 날뛰는 오물의 분수 (Look, I’m a fountain of filth raving mad with love)》(ZOLLAMT MMK)를 발표하고 가진 인터뷰에서 작가는, ‘아이를 잉태하고 낳듯이, 건물의 파사드를 낳는 거푸집’을 설명한 바 있다. 삼키기와 뱉어내기, 혹은 잉태(carriers)와 출산(birth)의 행위는 그 자체로 매개되는 순환의 아름다움이자 삶의 유한성에 대한 공포를 상기시킨다. 작업을 위해 인용한 시인 김언희의 문장들은 낡은 거푸집 위에 할퀴고 찢어내고 분출하듯, 내뱉어진 채로 쓰였다. 폭력에 대한 신체의 감각, 다가갈 수 없는 원형적인 욕망, 그리고 그러한 감정의 기저에는 슬픔의 정서가 있다.
한편 주요 국제전에서 발표된 이미래의 대규모 설치 작업은 건축 환경과 장소 특정적인 조건을 적극적으로 포함한다. 2022년 부산비엔날레 《물결 위 우리》의 설치 현장은 오래된 선박 공장이었다. 태풍으로 지붕과 벽체가 날아간 텅 빈 공장 안에는 높이 20미터에 달하는 비계 구조물과 여기저기 구멍 뚫린 가림막 천이 설치되었다. 이미래의 <구멍이 많은 풍경: 영도 바다 피부>(2022)는 거대한 건물의 풍화된 뼈대와 외벽을 작품의 피부로 수합하면서, 마치 고래의 배 속에 삼켜진 생물체의 흔적처럼 자리 잡았다. 천천히 바닥을 기거나 호스를 통해 끊임없이 빨아들이고 내뿜는 이미래의 그로테스크한 형상은, 조각의 범주화를 초월하는 파토스적인 폭력과 반복되는 움직임의 쾌감, 나아가 삶의 유한성과 파토스적 욕망과 좌절이 공존하는 감수성의 미학을 향해 있다.
서울대학교 미술대학에서 조소와 영상매체를 복수전공한 이미래는 현재 서울과 암스테르담을 오가며 작업하고 있다. 데뷔 이래 도전적인 행보를 이어온 작가의 주요 개인전은 2023년 뉴욕 뉴 뮤지엄(New Museum)에서 개최된 《Black Sun》을 비롯하여, 《Look, I’m a fountain of filth raving mad with love》(ZOLLAMT MMK, 2022), 《As we laydying》(Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 2022), 《캐리어즈/Carriers》(아트선재센터, 2020), 《words were never enough》(Lily Robert, 2020), 《Het is of de stenen spreken(Silence is a commons)》 (Casco Art Institute, 2019), 그리고 2014년 인사미술공간에서 열린 《낭만쟁취: War is Won by Sentiment Not by Soldiers》가 있다. 주요 국제전으로는 부산비엔날레(2022), 제59회 베니스 비엔날레(2022), 제58회 카네기 인터내셔널(2022), 베를린 쉰켈 파빌리온(2021), 프라이부르크 쿤스트 페어라인(2021), 제15회 리옹 비엔날레( 2019), 《제12회 광주비엔날레 파빌리온 프로젝트》(2018)가 있으며, 서울시립미술관 SeMA 난지 창작스튜디오, 파리 국제 예술 레지던시 프로그램에 참여했다. 2021년 Future Generation Art Prize 특별상을 수상했고, 2023년 6월 뉴욕 뉴뮤지엄(New Museum)의 초청으로 미국에서의 첫 미술관 개인전 《Mire Lee: Black Sun》이 개최되었다.
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Mire Lee: Open Wound
Tate Modern | Hyundai Commission 9 October 2024 - 16 March 2025With a new large-scale sculptural installation, artist Mire Lee reimagines Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall as the inside of a body, transforming it into an eerie and fantastical factory. Blending her...Learn More -
Mire Lee: Black Sun
New Museum 29 June - 17 September 2023Mire Lee: Black Sun 2023년 6월 29일 - 9월 17일 뉴욕 뉴 뮤지엄(New Museum) 서울과 암스텔담을 오가며 활동하고 있는 조각가 이미래(b.1988)의 뉴 뮤지엄(New Museum) 개인전, 《Mire Lee: Black Sun(이미래: 검은...Learn More -
Is it morning for you yet? | The 58th Carnegie International
Mire Lee 24 September 2022 - 2 April 2023Is it morning for you yet?, the 58th Carnegie International, featuring Mire Lee and Pacita Abad, is on view at Carnegie Museum of Art from September 24, 2022 through April...Learn More -
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Busan Biennale 2022
Mire Lee 3 September - 6 November 2022We, on the Rising Wave Busan Biennale 2022 September 3—November 6, 2022 Mire Lee's new site-specific work is on view at Yeongdo, an island imbued with the history of migration...Learn More -
As we lay dying
Kunstmuseum Den Haag 9 July - 27 November 2022'As a person falls asleep, or is dying, artist Mire Lee sees a sculpture emerge. “People are like ‘meat’ in that state. I find that endearing, potentially sad, but also...Learn More -
Look, I’m a fountain of filth raving mad with love
MMK Frankfurt 21 May - 4 September 2022Tubes, chains, and wires seem to resemble organic contraptions as they loop, glide, and snake around and into each other. These appliances are stiff or pliable when tension is applied,...Learn More -
Mire Lee
The Milk of Dreams: Venice Biennale 2022 23 April - 27 November 2022Tina Kim Gallery warmly congratulates Mire Lee on the opening of the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Director & Chief Curator of High Line...Learn More -
Schinkel Pavillon
HR GIGER & MIRE LEE 18 September 2021The Schinkel Pavillon brings together the worlds of the late Swiss visionary HR Giger (1940-2014) and the South Korean artist Mire Lee (b. 1988), transforming into a site for an...Learn More -
Contamination at Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg
Mire Lee 27 March 2021Encounters, contact and coalition are processes of contamination. Distinct entities collide and change. A substance, being or community is tainted, corrupted or afflicted by something else. Purity is an illusion....Learn More -
Breathing Through Skin at Antenna Space, Shanghai
Mire Lee 7 November 2020Bringing together new and recent works—several of which have been especially conceived for this occasion—“Breathing Through Skin” highlights four artists and their critical invocations of monstrosity—the monster as constructed motif...Learn More -
Mire Lee, Carriers
Art Sonje Center 23 July - 13 September 2020In her sculpture and installation work, Mire Lee uses machinery that operates by simple principles, along with materials that can be felt with the hands. For an artist who regards...Learn More
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Mire Lee's latest flesh-filled art installation takes over Tate Modern's Turbine Hall
Korea JoongAng Daily October 21, 2024LONDON — The Turbine Hall at Tate Modern recently became home to a grotesque organism that will continue to evolve for five months. Gobs of...Learn More -
In Conversation with Mire Lee
Aesthetica October 19, 2024Dangling silicone tubes take on the impression of veins. Hanging membranous fabric mimics skin, accumulating as time goes on. Pink liquid is pumped around the...Learn More -
Mire Lee’s Uncanny Installation ‘Open Wound’ Lays Bare Modern Man’s Hubris
Observer October 15, 2024Majestically grotesque, uncanny and dystopic enough to tap into our deepest unconscious fears and desires—this is how we might describe South Korean artist Mire Lee...Learn More -
Channeling the Grotesque in Mire Lee’s “Open Wound”
ArtAsiaPacific October 14, 2024Mire Lee Open Wound Tate Modern Oct 8–Mar 16, 2025 To coincide with Frieze London, Tate Modern unveiled its ninth Hyundai Commission, titled Open Wound,...Learn More -
Mire Lee: 'I've started playing with potential technical failures'
The Art Newspaper October 11, 2024The South Korean artist Mire Lee, who is based in Seoul and Amsterdam, makes sculptures that whirr and splutter, seemingly teetering on the edge of...Learn More -
Frieze London diary: the yolk's on Sarah Lucas, the (sort of) masked drummer, and Marc Spiegler gets on his bike
The Art Newspaper October 11, 2024Tate show is a (brief) stinker There was much talk on the opening morning of the way in which Mire Lee’s Open Wound permeated Tate...Learn More -
Weekly News Roundup: October 10, 2024
ArtAsiaPacific October 10, 2024Tate Modern Reveals Latest Turbine Hall Commission Korean artist Mire Lee’s large-scale kinetic sculptural installation Open Wound (2024) was unveiled at London’s Tate Modern on...Learn More -
Shows to See in London, October 2024
ArtAsiaPacific October 10, 2024The English capital is overrun every year with contemporary art events, as the sibling art fairs Frieze London and Frieze Masters (both October 9–13) take...Learn More -
Mire Lee transforms Tate Modern's turbine hall into eerie factory of skin-like sculptures
designboom October 10, 2024HYUNDAI COMMISSION: MIRE LEE: OPEN WOUND Tate Modern today unveils a new large-scale sculptural installation by artist Mire Lee, who reimagines the Turbine Hall...Learn More -
Exhibitions to See in London this Autumn
Ocula October 10, 2024When fair fatigue sets in, here's what to see across London's museums and galleries through autumn and beyond—from Haegue Yang's career-spanning retrospective at Hayward Gallery...Learn More -
Mire Lee at the Tate Modern is the Turbine Hall at its very best
City AM October 10, 2024Wander into the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and you will be met by the unsettling sight of what look like flayed, bloodied skins hanging from...Learn More -
First S. Korean artist presents solo exhibition at Tate Modern London
The Chosun Daily October 10, 2024A sense of outcry pervades the space as pale pink fabrics, eerily reminiscent of human skin, flutters in the air, propelled by a large turbine...Learn More -
Mire Lee: Open Wound - Tate Modern unveils 9th annual Hyundai Commission Installation
New Wave Mag October 9, 2024Unveiled yesterday at the Tate Modern’s legendary Turbine Hall, Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee is now open for viewing. The exhibition is the ninth of its...Learn More -
What to see and do at Frieze London
Hero Magazine October 9, 2024Yes, we know fashion week just ended, but art, much like fashion, never sleeps. It’s officially Frieze London once again and while it is a...Learn More -
5 Shows to See Around London During Frieze
ARTnews October 9, 2024The circus has rolled into town. Frieze London and Frieze Masters open their doors to the VIPs today, but are London’s fairs fast becoming an...Learn More -
Tate Modern opens Mire Lee Turbine Hall commission
artsy October 9, 2024Yesterday, South Korean artist Mire Lee unveiled the ninth annual Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern with her installation, “Open Wound.” On view through March 16,...Learn More -
Mire Lee is Risking It All
Elephant October 8, 2024“I never actually wanted to become an artist,” Mire Lee confesses. “It’s just one thing that I never wanted to become”. I’m sitting next to...Learn More -
Observer's Guide to the Must-See Shows Opening During Frieze Week
Observer October 8, 2024Frieze Art Week has officially kicked off in London with its first openings, as the local community and international visitors gear up for the launch...Learn More -
Asian Artists Are Everywhere During Frieze London, With K-Art (and K-Pop!) Front and Center
artnet October 8, 2024At a recent luncheon for the Delfina Foundation in London, a week before Frieze madness began, two artists with Asian roots reunited. One was Moe...Learn More -
Mire Lee's Massive New Work in Tate's Turbine Hall Provokes Awe and Disgust
artnet October 8, 2024If El Anatsui’s cascading monuments made of bottle caps, which filled Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall last October, were awe-inspiring, this year’s commission could best be...Learn More -
Mire Lee, Tate Modern: The Turbine Hall has been turned into a fabulous gore-fest
The Telegraph October 8, 2024You’re not going to like it. In fact, you might hate it. But this year’s commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, by South Korean artist...Learn More -
Mire Lee: Open Wound review—a horrible yet heavenly Turbine Hall show
The Times October 8, 2024Tate Modern has a ladder in its tights. Rarely have I seen such a ratty collection of torn stockings and desperate fishnets all strung up...Learn More -
Mire Lee: Open Wound
TimeOut October 8, 2024A vast engine spins, spilling noxious, viscous liquid onto the floor of the Turbine Hall. Mire Lee’s machine is draped in tentacles which ooze and...Learn More -
Mire Lee: Tate Unveils Turbine Hall Hyundai Commission 2024
Artlyst October 8, 2024Tate Modern has revealed a new sculptural installation by artist Mire Lee, who has reimagined the vast Turbine Hall as a surreal, body-like landscape. Lee’s...Learn More -
Mire Lee: Open Wound the Turbine Hall Commission
Fad Magazine October 8, 2024Tate Modern today unveiled a new large-scale sculptural installation by artist Mire Lee. Lee reimagines the Turbine Hall as the inside of a body, transforming...Learn More -
Mortal Machines: Mire Lee
Flash Art October 8, 2024Deep down, bodies are messy. Really messy. Filthy, sweaty, and grimy. All the soaps, creams, pastes, and perfumes can scrub or slick away only so...Learn More -
Artist Mire Lee on her visceral Tate Modern Turbine Hall commission
Financial Times October 8, 2024“I always make things that aren’t really working,” Mire Lee tells me over coffee. The Korean artist is not just being humble. Her eerie, mechanical...Learn More -
Korean art in full swing in UK this fall
The Korea Herald October 7, 2024Korean art will be at the center of attention in the UK this fall, with a variety of exhibitions featuring established Korean artists and projects...Learn More -
Turbine Hall Star Mire Lee: 'You can't control a sexual fetish – it feels like art'
The Telegraph October 6, 2024Inside an empty auditorium at Tate Modern, Mire Lee is discussing addiction. “Everybody watches porn sometimes,” says the 36-year-old Korean artist. “But when you’re doing...Learn More -
The Hypeart Guide to Frieze London 2024
Hypebeast October 4, 2024Frieze has come a long way since it was founded as an arts publication back in 1991. A decade on, the very first Frieze London...Learn More -
Frieze London 2024: everything to see and do
Wallpaper October 2, 2024Frieze Week means the opening of the latest Tate Turbine Hall installation, and this year it is by Mire Lee, whose low-fi kinetica will take...Learn More -
Maschinen Wie Wir
Monopol October 1, 2024Monopol October 2024 Issue featuring Mire LeeLearn More -
12 amazing London art exhibitions and events you can't miss in October 2024
TimeOut September 27, 2024Are you healthy, robust and capable of staggering feats of endurance? Well, if you want to take on October’s insane number of exhibitions and art...Learn More -
The Uncontainable Mire Lee
ArtReview September 27, 2024The Korean artist’s haunting, lo-fi kinetic sculptures offer new spins on sensing and thinking, and perhaps new ways of being As instructed by a sign,...Learn More -
'It has to be sloppy'
Tate Etc September 16, 2024As Mire Lee works on her new commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, artist and writer Ami Lien talks to her about the challenges of...Learn More -
The 10 essential art exhibitions to see in autumn 2024
The Telegraph September 3, 2024From Monet’s views of the Thames to mind-bending “tech art”, here are ten shows to see before the end of the year. Hyundai Commission: Mire...Learn More -
What Mire Lee Is Bringing to the Tate Turbine Hall
Frieze August 30, 2024Dream last night: A small, round, silver thing has sprouted in my face. It’s the size and shape of a single tine of a fork,...Learn More -
Gut Wrenching Sinthomes: Mire Lee and the Aesthetics of Affect
Émergent Magazine July 15, 2024But the work is not merely a cultural object, although it is that too. It harbours within it an excess, a rapture, a potential of...Learn More -
Tina Kim Illuminates the 6 Best of Basel in June
Whitewall June 14, 2024The illustrious Tina Kim founded her namesake gallery in 2001 in New York, and ever since then has been a guiding light in the international...Learn More -
Frieze L.A. 2024: Highlights From the Fair
Women's Wear Daily March 3, 2024“We’re very excited to be in L.A.,” said art dealer and gallery owner Tina Kim, who’s based in New York. Known for introducing Asian artists...Learn More -
Inside Frieze Los Angeles, California's Hottest Art Fair
Maxim March 1, 2024Pioneering powerbroker Tina Kim is sharing an extensive array of works from her notably intellectual roster all weekend. Disparate artistic approaches harmonize on the common...Learn More -
Mire Lee Next Commissioned Artist For Tate’s Turbine Hall
FAD Magazine February 14, 2024Tate Modern and Hyundai Motor have announced that Mire Lee will create the next annual Hyundai Commission for Tate’s Turbine Hall. Mire Lee is known...Learn More -
Hyundai Motor and Tate Announce Mire Lee as Next Hyundai Commission Artist
HYUNDAI February 14, 2024SEOUL/LONDON, February 14, 2024 – Hyundai Motor Company and Tate Modern announced today that Mire Lee will create the next annual Hyundai Commission. Lee is...Learn More -
Mire Lee to create next Tate Modern Turbine Hall commission
ArtReview February 14, 2024Tate Modern and Hyundai Motor announce that Mire Lee will create the next annual Hyundai Commission. Lee, born in South Korea in 1988, lives and...Learn More -
Tate Modern Announces Mire Lee As Next Hyundai Commission Artist
Artlyst February 14, 2024Tate Modern, in collaboration with Hyundai Motor, announces Mire Lee as the creator of the next Hyundai Commission for the Turbine Hall. Known for her...Learn More -
Mire Lee to be next Hyundai Commission artist for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
February 14, 2024Tate Modern and Hyundai Motor announce that Mire Lee will create the next annual Hyundai Commission. Mire Lee is known for her visceral sculptures which...Learn More -
Meet 8 Artists Who Broke Big in 2023—From Sculptor Mire Lee to Abstract Painter Rachel Jones
Artnet December 22, 2023Abstract painting has continued to dominate in 2023, with a host of emerging names making a sizable dent in the market with energetic works inspired...Learn More -
Second Winners of $25,000 Gold Art Prize for AAPI and Asian Diaspora Artists Named
ArtNews October 16, 2023The second round of winners of the Gold Art Prize , which awards an unrestricted $25,000 to five AAPI and Asian diaspora artists every other...Learn More -
5 Korean Female Artists Who Are Reimagining Textile Art
W Magazine October 3, 2023Over the last decade, every art fair seems to bring with it an increasing amount of fabric-based works. Frieze Seoul, whose second edition took place...Learn More -
Mire Lee in New York Dystopie der Selbstauflösung
Monopol September 14, 2023Die Künstlerin Mire Lee ist eine Meisterin des Unbehaglichen. In ihrer beklemmenden Installation im New Museum in New York huldigt sie der schwarzen Sonne ...Learn More -
Mire Lee “Black Sun” New Museum / New York
Flash Art September 14, 2023My lone star is dead — and my bespangled lute / Bears the black sun of Melancholia. — Gérard de Nerval, El Desdichado (The Disinherited)...Learn More -
The Sorrow and Desire of Abysmal Life Machines: An Interview With Mire Lee
ArtAsiaPacific September 1, 2023“Within depression, if my existence is on the verge of collapsing, its lack of meaning is not tragic—it appears obvious to me, glaring and inescapable....Learn More -
In Seoul, a Major Player Surveys the City’s Changing Scene Ahead of Frieze
ARTNews August 30, 2023In the 1990s, gallerist Tina Kim watched her mother’s business, Kukje Gallery, thrive. It would eventually set her on a path to become a major...Learn More -
Miyoung LEE’s Top Picks from Frieze Seoul Viewing Room 2023
Frieze August 30, 2023MIRE LEE Surface with many holes: concrete nets IV, 2022 Latex, burlap jute, pigmented silicone oil, and concrete 59.7 cm x 21.6 cm Presented by...Learn More -
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Sculpture August 29, 2023Stepping off the elevator to see “Black Sun,” an exhibition of new work by Mire Lee (on view through September 17, 2023), I found myself...Learn More -
See South Korean Rising Star Mire Lee’s Gutsy Debut of Squelching Kinetic Sculptures at the New Museum
Artnet August 4, 2023The South Korean artist Mire Lee has been made a name for herself in recent years due to her penchant for making audiences squirm. At...Learn More -
Ick Art: Why a Rising Generation of Female Sculptors Is Embracing Body Horror
Cultured August 2, 2023Imagine a meat locker or a mad scientist’s lair: that’s what the New Museum’s fourth floor looks like today. Plastic-lined scaffolding forms a dank, fetid...Learn More -
We Who Are Drawn To the Repulsive
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Mire Lee on the cannibalistic imagination
Artforum July 3, 2023Mire Lee’s monuments gush, gape, weep, and macerate. Drawing inspiration from body horror, hentai, scatology, and vorarephilia, the South Korean sculptor fabricates hyperbolically visceral forms...Learn More -
For Mire Lee, Rising Art Star, It All Comes Down to Guts
The New York Times June 23, 2023The Korean artist’s ingenious machine sculptures, coming to the New Museum, show things that “you don’t actually want to see,” a leading curator says. One...Learn More -
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BOMB Magazine June 20, 2023Mire Lee’s kinetic installations are noisy. They emit distinct smells. They drip and turn, resembling unwieldy bodies or disassembled body parts. They are not alive,...Learn More -
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ArtAsiaPacific January 1, 2023Mire Lee The abject—in particular the intersection of body horror and sexuality—is integral to Seoul-and-Amsterdam-based artist Mire Lee's exploration of the 21st-century human condition. Challenging...Learn More -
One Work: Mire Lee’s “Carriers”
Art in America November 7, 2022Many of Mire Lee’s sculptures, comprising silicone and other synthetic materials, evoke a mix of the primordial and the postindustrial. “Carriers,” her suite of works...Learn More -
Mire Lee's Tantalizing Installations Are Charged with Death and Desire
Artsy October 14, 2022Mire Lee creates carnivorous mechanical sculptures that evoke the vulnerability of the human body. Using clay, steel, pumps, hoses, blades, and motor power, Lee creates...Learn More -
Alone in a Dirty, Sacred Space
Hyperallergic September 27, 2022The first time you encounter Mire Lee’s artwork your mind might race toward an unsettling observation that eludes your memory, perhaps from William Burroughs’s Cities...Learn More -
8 Standout Artists at the 58th Carnegie International
Artsy September 27, 2022MIRE LEE Mire Lee’s works can only be regarded as anti-aesthetic. There is horror and gore, but also beauty, as well as technical skill—both in...Learn More -
Mire Lee’s Visceral Bodies
Ocula September 21, 2022In Conversation with Stephanie Bailey New York, 21 September 2022 Mire Lee's kinetic sculptures are defined by a visceral, body-horror intensity, where materials like silicon...Learn More -
Mire Lee's Deep-Rooted Romanticism
Frieze September 9, 2022by Mire Lee and Alvin Li in Features, Interview Alvin Li Before working with you, I had no idea how technically precise your work is....Learn More -
Post-Industrial Grotesque
ArtAsiaPacific September 9, 2022Mire Lee is an artist who frequently turns to industrial materials and machinery to mine for waste and unexpected byproducts. In her installations and sculptures,...Learn More -
Tina Kim Gallery Presents Mire Lee’s “Carriers”
ArtAsiaPacific September 8, 2022For her first solo exhibition with Tina Kim Gallery, Mire Lee presents “Carriers,” on view from September 15 to October 22, 2022. “Carriers” marks the...Learn More -
Christopher Lew’s Five Favourite Works from Frieze Viewing Room
Frieze August 31, 2022The Chief Artistic Director of the Horizon Art Foundation (Los Angeles) shares his top works from the Frieze Seoul 2022 edition. Mire Lee Eyes of...Learn More -
Frieze Debuts in Seoul, With Big-Name Galleries and a Hometown Spectacle
The New York Times August 30, 2022High-end art fairs have been giving themselves global brand extensions for years, and the latest one, Frieze Seoul, is among the more ambitious. Frieze —...Learn More -
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Korea JoongAng Daily April 21, 2022VENICE, Italy — Two female Korean artists who rebel against conventional thoughts through art, traveled to Italy to showcase their works at the 59th Venice...Learn More -
The 2022 Venice Biennale Finds Hope at the End of the World
Artsy April 21, 2022Within the exhibition, technology reminds viewers of the intensities of our bodies and the vulnerabilities of our flesh. Mire Lee ’s deeply unnerving kinetic sculpture...Learn More -
Mire Lee | 3 Artists to Watch at the 2022 Venice Biennale
L'OFFICIEL ART April 20, 2022Mire Lee’s sculptural installations are often unsightly and heavily material, most often reminiscent of intestines or dissected body parts that exude liquids that allude to...Learn More -
Mire Lee | The Milk of Dreams |Tour Cecilia Alemani’s Venice Biennale Exhibition, Coursing with Surrealist Energies and Abounding with Bodies
Artnews April 20, 2022Mire Lee Remember this name: the Korean artist Mire Lee, who works in Amsterdam, is displaying kinetic sculptures that suggest organs being tortured in a...Learn More -
Mire Lee | The Best Art in the 2022 Venice Biennale’s Main Show
Artnews April 20, 2022Mire Lee This is a Biennale where kink proliferates, from a Mariann Simnett installation involving S&M to a Zheng Bo video in which dancers attempt...Learn More -
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Artforum December 3, 2021THE ARTISTS’ ARTISTS Twenty-three artists reflect on 2021 To take stock of the past year, Artforum asked an international group of artists to select a...Learn More -
MIRE LEE ON SCULPTING BODY HORROR AND VORE
Art in America November 12, 2021Mire Lee’s silicone sculptures resemble life forms that defy easy classification. These works, which look a bit like innards, are often equipped with hidden motors...Learn More -
HR Giger & Mire Lee
e-flux September 16, 2021The Schinkel Pavillon brings together the worlds of the late Swiss visionary HR Giger (1940–2014) and the South Korean artist Mire Lee (b. 1988), transforming...Learn More -
Vorarephilia: Mire Lee
Mousse Magazine July 20, 2021ESSAYS Mousse 69 Vorarephilia: Mire Lee by Alvin Li I first encountered Korean artist Mire Lee via an Instagram story—a documentation of Andrea, Ophelia, at...Learn More -
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CURA.36 July 20, 2021Mire Lee’s promethean sculptures and installations instill a creeping transgressive horror. Twisted piles of rubber tubing, pools of silicate, and ventricular pumps gurn, and ejaculate....Learn More -
Mire Lee: Carriers
E-flux July 23, 2020Mire Lee: Carriers In her sculpture and installation work, Mire Lee uses machinery that operates by simple principles, along with materials that can be felt...Learn More