Lee, Young-Sik
Painter / Germany
ABOUT
Lee, Young-Sik is a German-Korean painter & graphic artist, born in Seoul, South Korea.
He has been living in Germany since 1990, where his mother taught as a guest lecturer for East Asian literature at the University of Leipzig. He studied at the Freie Academie for Kunst in Painting & project studies in Berlin, Germany. He forwards studied at the Berlin Technical University for Communication Design and Visual & Motion Design with Professor Hans Grimmling. For his artistic precision and deepening, he received private lessons for Fine Arts with Professor Arno Rink, rector at the famous art University Leipzig and with university lecturer Herbert Vicenz for artistic anatomy and nature studies for several years.
He has numerous solo and group exhibitions in Berlin, Leipzig, Cologne, Hamburg, Schwerin in Germany. He was invited to numerous international Art Fair, e.g. Art Innsbruck in Austria, Parallax Art Fair in Chelsea- London, Parallax Art Fair in Kensington- London and Gallery O Maribo- Copenhagen Denmark, etc.
In 2019, he was invited by the Ministry of Culture Cuba to a solo and group exhibition for 500th Anniversary in Havana, Cuba, as a German delegation and his printing works were in Havana exhibited.
He was invited in Global Artist Committee of Asian Art Association in 2020.
Critics
When I start painting, the invisible becomes visible. Figures change, I relish the metamorphosis that comes with inspiration. Painting by LEE, Young-Sik —— irritating and at the same time formally arranged —— is animated by the tension between objective appearance and abstract marks generated coincidentally by the painting process. LEE breaks down the lines between human and animal behavior. The atmosphere of the images and, upon closer inspection, the metaphorical references also reveal subliminal levels of meaning. His painting reflects today's times and the way "in which we submit to the world".
—— Christine Balbach, curator, art projector, Germany
solo exhibition
2019 Meaning of Dream / Gallery Supernova, Vetomat, Berlin
2018 metaphor / gallery DAS LABOR, Berlin
2014 SHOWROOM gallery / Komet creative agency, Berlin
2013 Urban Animalus / In Kunst-Wasser- Werk, Schwerin (with Jens Hunger)
2012 Viewing the fauna / gallery Katz & Bach, Berlin
2011 Pink Period / Galerie Katz & Bach, Berlin
2009 Insight2 / Art location Alte Kindl Brauerei, Berlin (with Stephan Isermann)
2005 Exciting Force / Humboldt University Klein gallery (with Armin Paul)
2005 East Asian Reading / Gallery Wallywood, Berlin
2000 The power of memory / Diakonisches Krankenhaus, Leipzig
2000 Portrait 30 / assembly hall of the Waldorf School / Leipzig
