Mire Lee
Hyundai Commission: Open Wound
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
Through March 16, 2025

Drawing inspiration from Tate Modern’s history as a power station, Mire Lee transforms the Turbine Hall with striking hanging sculptures and epic mechanical installations, reimagining the space as a living factory. A fascinating mix of materials such as silicone and chains bring her creations to life and challenge our ideas of what is beautiful, perverse, provocative and desirable. Open Wound invites us to revel in contradictory emotions: from awe and disgust to compassion, fear and love.

The Parks of Aomame
Group Exhibition
Okayama Art Summit
September 26–November 26, 2025

The theme of this year’s Okayama Art Summit is The Parks of Aomame, inspired by Aomame, the mysterious character from Haruki Murakami’s novel 1Q84. As Artistic Director Philippe Parreno describes in his statement, a curated group of thirty individuals and groups from twelve countries and regions—including artists, musicians, architects, designers, scientists, writers, and thinkers—will use their unique methods of expression to create new forms, transforming Okayama’s public spaces into places where reality and imagination naturally merge. Sprüth Magers is delighted that Cyprien Gaillard and Mire Lee are amongst the participating artists.

territory
Mire Lee, Liu Yujia, Gala Porras-Kim, Tan Jing, Zhang Ruyi
April 27–July 27, 2024
Berlin

On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2024, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present territory, a group show of works by Mire Lee, Liu Yujia, Gala Porras-Kim, Tan Jing, and Zhang Ruyi, curated by Shi-ne Oh. It will be Sprüth Magers’ first group exhibition focusing exclusively on female Asian artists. The title, territory, naturally associated with aggressive political policies and behaviours, questions the vast definitions of borders and boundaries and how they both limit and liberate our transgressive desires on physical as well as psychological terrain.

The five artists will transform all of the gallery’s spaces, premiering works that examine the bounds of the body, disgust and morality, and the restraints of language, history and memory. Diverse in media and approach, the artworks on view employ unpredictable materials to engage and challenge viewers’ senses.