Image credit: Lee Ufan, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 27 October 2023 – 28 April 2024 © Lee Ufan / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023. Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo La Forgia
Hamburger Bahnhof presents the first comprehensive retrospective of the painter and sculptor Lee Ufan in Germany. Lee is one of the most important representatives of the Mono-ha school in Japan and the Dansaekhwa movement in Korea, which developed in parallel to other minimal art movements. The exhibition shows about 50 works from the past five decades. Lee’s decades-long engagement with painting is addressed by an extraordinary highlight: Rembrandt’s famous Self-Portrait with Velvet Beret (1634) from the Berlin Gemäldegalerie is shown for the first time at Hamburger Bahnhof and enters into a dialogue with Lee’s expansive installation “Relatum – The Mirror Road” (2016/2023). In this way, Lee’s art introduces visitors to the formative art movements of Japan and Korea in the 1970s and provides a new perspective on an icon of Western European art.
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The exhibition is on view from October 27, 2023 to April 28, 2024.