Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee
Place : London
Date : October 08, 2024 – March 16, 2025
About the Exhibition
Hyundai Motor and Tate Modern announce Mire Lee to be next Hyundai Commission artist for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Mire Lee is known for her visceral sculptures which use kinetic, mechanized elements to invoke the tension between soft forms and rigid systems. Her new site-specific work will be open to the public from October 8, 2024 to March 16, 2025.
Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee will be the ninth in an annual series of site-specific works created for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall by renowned international artists. Hyundai Commission provides a unique opportunity for artists to transform Turbine Hall’s vast space and revolutionize public perceptions of contemporary art. This will be the first major presentation of Lee’s work in the UK.
Using industrial materials, such as steel rods, cement, silicone, oil and clay, her work explores the animated nature of these materials as they pour, drip and bulge. Lee’s sculptures have a raw, organic appearance with elements suggestive of living organisms combined with machine parts. Motors or pumps channel oozing liquids through them with an unsettling effect. Lee is interested in the power of sculpture to affect both the viewer and the immediate surroundings and is unafraid to push artistic boundaries in spectacular ways. Her atmospheric sculptures and installations engage the senses and create spaces to reflect on themes of emotion and human desire.
Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee is curated by Ann Coxon, Curator, International Art, Tate Modern; Alvin Li, Curator, International Art, supported by Asymmetry Art Foundation, Tate Modern; and Bilal Akkouche, Assistant Curator, Tate Modern. It will be accompanied by a new book from Tate Publishing.
About the Artist
Mire Lee lives and works between Seoul, South Korea and Amsterdam, Netherlands. She has a bachelor’s degree from the Department of Sculpture (2012) and a graduate degree in media art (2013) from the Seoul National University College of Fine Arts. Her recent solo exhibitions include Black Sun (2023) at the New Museum, New York; Look, I’m a fountain of filth raving mad with love (2022) at ZOLLAMTMMK, MMK Frankfurt; HR Giger & Mire Lee (2022) at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; and Carriers (2020) at Art Sonje Center, Seoul.
Lee’s work was also featured in several group exhibitions including presentations at the 59th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2022), 11th Busan Biennale (2022), Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg (2021), Antenna Space, Shanghai (2020), the 15th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon (2019), Art Sonje, Seoul (2019), Sharjah Art Foundation (2019), and the 12th Gwangju Biennale Pavilion Project (2018). She has taken part in residencies at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (2018); Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA Nanji Residency) (2017), and was the recipient of a Special Prize at the 2021 Future Generation Art Prize.
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