Born 1986 in Seoul (KR)
Working and living in Amsterdam (NL)
aram@leearam.com
CV
Aram Lee was born in Seoul and lives and works in Amsterdam. As an artist, her research-driven practice revolves around reinterpreting materials found within institutions, often seeking to relocate their role and purpose through performative events, film and video installations. Sometimes taking up processes of performative action with the public, her practice shapes the way objects are described and circulated. Her artworks challenge diasporic amnesia and release impure, spectral and false fictions from the institutions to enable the dissolution of (cultural) predominance and visualize new structures.
Education
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2016–2017
Master of Contextual Design, Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven (Cum Laude)
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2014–2015
Diploma of Fine Arts, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Stuttgart (incomplete)
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2008–2012
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul
Residencies
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2022–2023
Guest Artist in Residence at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL (Current)
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2018–2019
Artist in Residence at Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
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2019
Artist in Residence at Goethe Institute, Marseille, FR
Selected Exhibitions
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2023
RIJKSAKADEMIE OPEN STUDIOS 2023, Amsterdam, 2023 (link) (Upcoming)
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2023
Creating the Commons, VU Art Science gallery, Amsterdam, NL (Current)
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2022–2023
When Things are Beings, Proposals for the Museum Collection, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL (link)
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2022
In the Pause of a Gesture there might be an Echo#3, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL (link)
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2022
Depend on me, Punt WG, Amsterdam, NL (link)
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2021
In the pause of a gesture there might be an echo #2, PuntWG, Amsterdam, NL (link)
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2021
Domestic Concerns, Matjoe Raum für Kunst, Köln, DE (duo exhibition) (link)
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2021
Unquiet Objects, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, USA (link)
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2020
2020, Rozenstraat - a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam, NL (link)
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2020
To Pluto and back, Unlocked/Reconnected, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, NL (link)
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2020
The plot flipped the eternality, Art Oost, Amsterdam (link)
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2020
The Unknown Artist, Center for Contemporary Art and Culture (PNCA), Portland, USA (link)
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2019
Elsewheres Within Here, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, NL (link)
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2019
La Grande Transformation, commisioned by Goethe-Institut Marseille and Heritage Contact Zone, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR (link)
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2019
Landscape with Bear, de Appel, Amsterdam, NL (link)
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2019
Open studios, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL (link)
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2019
Design im Kunstverein, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, DE
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2018
Inside out, forecast, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, DE (link)
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2018
Contextile, Bienale de arte textil contempornea, Guimares, PT (link)
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2017
Studio ZZM, Zuiderseemuseum, Einkuizen, NL
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2016
Dream Factory, Vertical Gallery, Plug in City, Eindhoven, NL (link)
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2014
Das unangreifbare war noch nie so meins, Galerie stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, DE (link)
Activities, Event, Lectures and Artist talks
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2023
NON NATIVE NATIVE FAIR 2023, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 14-17, July, 2023 (Upcoming)
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2023
Beyond Return, Déjà VU Festival, Amsterdam, 15, June, 2023 (link) (Upcoming)
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2023
Gallery Talk & Screening, When Things Are Beings, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 11 Feburary, 2023 (link)
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2023
ALL THIRD with Lucy Cotter and Aram Lee, Academie voor Theater en Dans, Amsterdam, NL (link)
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2022–2025
Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums, ‘Living Past’ Netherlands National Research (ongoing) (link)
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2022
Taking Care, Re|Creating Kinship in the Ethnographic Museum in Europe, Research center for material culture, Leiden, NL (link)
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2021–2022
The Whole Life Congress Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, DE (link)
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2021
When Site Lost the Plot: Siteless Specificity, MA Fine Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, KR. (link)
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2021
Depend on Me, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, NL (link)
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2021
The lives of objects: from domesticity to resource extraction, MA GEO-Design, Design Academy Eindhoven, NL
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2021
Parasite dinner, fanfare, M4gastatelier, Amsterdam, NL (link)
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2020
An Improvisation (to Contemplate), Rozenstraat - a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam, NL (link)
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2020
Online Panel: Prevention is Better than Hate, Framer Framed, NL (link)
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2020
In the pause of a gesture there might be an echo#1, Suns & Stars, Collective Domain in Cultural Memory, online, NL (link)
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2019
Tropical, Objects, Turns, New alphabet school, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, DE/NL (link)
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2019
Artist at m4 gastatelier, m4 gastatelier, Amsterdam, NL (link)
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2019
Granny’s Ghost Stories, Lumière, Maastricht, NL (link)
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2019
(UN-)LEARNING PLACE, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, DE (link)
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2019
THEA SEGALL.(Un)edited_ , Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL (link)
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2019
Tales of the Haunting victims, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL (link)
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2019
Something or other, School of Design, London College of Communication, UAL: London, UK (link)
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2018
Magical Riso 2018: Monumental Riso, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL (link)
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2018
The creative blur Symposium, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG), Hamburg, DE (link)
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2018
Fantastic Forgeries, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, NL (link)
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2018
Performance Making and the Archive Conference, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, IN (link)
Text, essay
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2023
No.5: Learning From Ancestors, Errant Journal (upcoming)
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2022
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2020
The Untouchables, suns and stars, CDCM-Collective Domain of Cultural Memory (read here)
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2020
The Museum of Tomorrow, Frame (read here)
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2019
La grande transformation, Heritage Contact Zone (read here)
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2019
Landscape With Bear, de Appel, Amsterdam (read here)
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2019
Post Ghost Bust, Charles Nyples Lab, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (read here)
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2019
From Pluto to Pyongyang and Back, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (read here)
Reviews, publicity
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2022
When Things Are Beings, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (read here)
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2021
Objecthood: a conversation with lucy cotter by Jess Nickel (read here)
Teaching
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2021–2022
guest tutor at Disarming design, Sandberg Institute (MA), Amsterdam