Jeewi Lee
𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙖
@jeewilee
🗓️On view through 21 June 2026
📍Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany
@kunsthallewilhelmshaven
In her works – installations, sculptures, pictorial objects and videos – Jeewi Lee explores traces, memory and temporality, as well as natural processes and materials. In “Where Fragments Linger by the Sea”, the artist turns her attention to the theme of ‘sand’, which is both universal and highly topical.
In addressing the complex geometric and constructive aspects of this process, Jeewi Lee collaborates with the geometric researcher Phillip C. Reiner, with whom she develops her sand sculptures and silkscreen prints.
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Images: Jeewi Lee (in collaboration with Phillip C. Reiner), “Where Fragments Linger by the Sea”, 2026, installation views, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven. Photos: Edward Greiner
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Solo exhibition WHERE FRAGMENTS LINGER BY THE SEA @kunsthallewilhelmshaven
Fragment Proximity_Sa Ràpita 23_41, 2024, Quartz sand, art resin, mixed media, 137.1 x 98.6 x 81.9 cm (Collaboration with Phillip C.Reiner)
Field of Fragments (Alentejo)_13, 2023, Mixed media and sand on linen and wood, 170 x 110 cm
Many thanks to foundations who supported us and to Phillip C. Reiner/ protoCtrl, my collaboration partner. As well as to Jay Lee, Nicole Adis, Lucie Layer, Katharina Bonengl, and Martina Parisi for their big support and help in the studio.
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Solo exhibition WHERE FRAGMENTS LINGER BY THE SEA @kunsthallewilhelmshaven
The sand sculptures FRAGMENTS and framed works SEGMENT were created in collaboration with Phillip C. Reiner.
Many thanks to everyone who supported the exhibition.
JEEWI LEE — Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
Where Fragments Linger by the Sea / until 26 June
In cooperation with Phillip C. Reiner
In her installations, sculptures, pictorial objects, and videos, Jeewi Lee explores memory, temporality, and natural processes. In Where Fragments Linger by the Sea, she turns her attention to sand — a material that is both universal and increasingly political.
The exhibition brings together abstract sand paintings and sculptures based on individual grains of sand collected from places including Korea, the USA, Portugal, Spain, Senegal, and Germany. Using CT scans and complex sand-printing processes developed in collaboration with geometric researcher Phillip C. Reiner, Lee transforms microscopic grains into monumental sculptures, revealing their unique structures and traces of time, landscape, and movement.
As both symbol and raw material, sand stands for infinity, everyday life, and one of the world’s most exploited natural resources. Lee’s works invite viewers to consider grains of sand as carriers of memory — shaped by erosion, migration, and human impact.
The exhibition itself unfolds as an immersive, almost meditative landscape of nearly monochromatic works. Where Fragments Linger by the Sea is the first institutional presentation of Lee’s sand works, following their initial presentation at Galerie Sexauer in 2024/2025, which attracted significant media attention.
For the exhibition, new works based on sand from the North Sea region — including Wilhelmshaven’s Südstrand — will be created.
Photos: Edward Greiner
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Ten days ago, I had the great pleasure of opening the solo exhibition WHERE FRAGMENTS LINGER BY THE SEA at Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven. I‘d like to thank the Kunsthalle team and all the visitors who made the opening evening so special.
My deepest thanks go to Phillip C. Reiner/ protoCtrl, my collaboration partner on the sand sculptures and silkscreen works, as well as to Jay Lee, Nicole Adis, Lucie Layer, Katharina Bonengl, and Martina Parisi for their tremendous support and help in the studio. I‘m endlessly happy and filled with gratitude. #wherefragmentslingerbythesea #kunsthallewilhelmshaven #jeewilee #protoctrl #fragments
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Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 25 Apr – 21 Jun 2026
In ihren Arbeiten – Installationen, Plastiken, Bildobjekten und Videos – befasst sich Jeewi Lee mit Spuren, Erinnerungen und Zeitlichkeit, mit natürlichen Prozessen und Materialien. In Where Fragments Linger by the Sea widmet sich die Künstlerin dem ebenso universellen wie aktuellen Thema „Sand“.
Sand ist in der Ausstellung einerseits der künstlerische Werkstoff, aus dem Jeewi Lee Skulpturen und abstrakte Sandmalereien schafft, andererseits stehen einzelne Sandkörner – aus Küstenorten wie Taean-Bando (Korea), New York und Connecticut (USA), dem Alentejo (Portugal), Mallorca (Spanien), Dakar (Senegal) und Wilhelmshaven – als kleine und große Skulpturen im Mittelpunkt. Winzige Sandkörner sind der Ausgangspunkt eines aufwändigen CT-Scans und Sanddruckverfahrens, mit dem die Plastiken entstehen, die von der Künstlerin händisch nachbearbeitet werden. Dabei treten die individuellen, filigranen Strukturen der Sandkörner zutage, die jeweils ein unverwechselbares Zeugnis von Herkunft, Zeit und Landschaft ablegen. In diesem Prozess mit seinen komplexen geometrischen und konstruktiven Aspekten arbeitet Jeewi Lee mit dem Geometriewissenschaftler Phillip C. Reiner zusammen, mit dem sie ihre Sandskulpturen und Siebdruckbilder entwickelt.
Vor der Folie ökologischer, wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Bezugssysteme laden Lees Werke dazu ein, Sandkörner als Nomaden zu betrachten, die von Küste zu Küste gespült werden und vergangene Zeiten, Einflüsse des Menschen und wandelnde Landschaften in sich bergen. Zu einer Landschaft wird auch die Ausstellung selbst, die sich aus den nahezu monochromen Werken zu einem konzentrierten, immersiven, fast schon meditativen Raum fügt.
Where Fragments Linger by the Sea ist die erste institutionelle Ausstellung der Sand-Arbeiten von Jeewi Lee. Schon deren erste Präsentation 2024/2025 in der Berliner Galerie Sexauer erreichte große mediale Aufmerksamkeit.
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Foto: Christopher Häring
Jeewi Lee und Phillip C. Reiner, Fragment Proximity, Field of Fragments, 2025
For Earth Day, our Beyond The Surface series turns to artist Jeewi Lee.
Working with materials such as sand, soil and ash, Lee explores the quiet narratives embedded in matter and the traces left behind by time and place. In our conversation, she reflects on the value of what often goes unnoticed, and the poetic potential of reduction, stillness and transformation.
Read the full conversation on MYKITA JOURNAL.
Link in bio.
Credits:
1, 6, 8, 10, 12- Ecaterina Rusu
2 - Yang Ian
4 - Yoon Changsu
13 - Marcus Schneider
We warmly invite you to the upcoming solo-exhibition WHERE FRAGMENTS LINGER BY THE SEA at Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven @kunsthallewilhelmshaven
>> April 24, 2026
Artist talk : 4 PM , Phillip C. Reiner & Jeewi Lee
Exhibition opening : 6 PM
We warmly invite you to the upcoming solo-exhibition WHERE FRAGMENTS LINGER BY THE SEA at Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven @kunsthallewilhelmshaven
>> April 24, 2026
Artist talk : 4 PM , Phillip C. Reiner & Jeewi Lee
Exhibition opening : 6 PM
