From 1998 to Now

Tickets available at tinyurl.com/28b3psrr Leeum Museum of Art presents Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now, a major survey of Lee Bul—one of the most significant figures in Korean contemporary art. Bringing together approximately 150 works, the exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of the key trajectories in Lee’s practice from the late 1990s to the present. Beginning with early iconic series such as Cyborg, Anagram, and the karaoke installation, the exhibition focuses particularly on Mon grand récit series, a body of architecturally scaled sculptural installations that Lee has developed since 2005. Also featured are works from her more recent Willing To Be Vulnerable and Perdu series, alongside numerous drawings and maquettes that provide insight into the artist’s imaginative and exploratory process, as well as her latest sculptural work. Taken together, these works highlight Lee’s sustained investigation into the relationship between humans and technology, utopian modernity, and humanity’s aspirations and failures in its enduring pursuit of perfectibility and progress. The exhibition unfolds as a layered, allegorical landscape of individual and collective memory, historical fragments, and diverse sociocultural and political references, inviting audiences on a journey that is at once physical, psychological, and speculative. Co-organized by Leeum Museum of Art and M+ in Hong Kong, Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now will open at Leeum in the fall of 2025, followed by its presentation at M+ in March 2026, and travel to major international institutions through the fall of 2027.