Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists
Group Exhibition
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul
Through March 3, 2025

This international special exhibition will be focusing on the work of Asian women artists since the 1960s from a perspective of “transcorporeality.” The concept of transcorporeality bears connections with the feminist point-of-view, in that it emphasizes horizontal connections while resisting hierarchy. Focusing on subtopics that include “the body as heterogeneity,” “bodies as spaces of resistance,” “the body and technology,” and “women and community,” the exhibition attempts multidimensional exploration of Asian women’s art from a transnational, comparative cultural perspective, examining it in a new contemporary light.

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.

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.