Exhibition
 
2022
Tea Time & Coffee Break
Culturetank T5, Seoul, KR
 
2021
Parallel Worlds
Seongkok Art Museum, Seoul, KR
 
2019
Road Show:2019 from Shanghai to Chongqing
Korean Cultural Center Shanghai, CN
 
Tracing Times
Gallery Simon, Seoul, KR
 
2017
Missing
Seongnam Art Center Cube Art Museum, KR
 
Ghost
Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, KR
 
Your Hand, My Heart
Gallery Simon, Seoul, KR
 
2016
Vapours Like Fire Light
Gallery Purple Studio, Namyangju si, KR
 
OLD & NEW
Kansong Art Museum, DDP, Seoul, KR
 
The Illusion of Time
Ilwoo Space, Seoul, KR
 
2015
31 Experiments on Light: Intimate Rapture
Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, KR
 
International Contemporary Art Project Ulsan 2015
Culture Street, Ulsan, KR
 
2014
Shadow Casters
Gallery Simon, Seoul, KR
 
Liquid Times
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
 
2013
The Roads of Forking Paths
SeMA Nanji Exhibiiton hall, Seoul, KR
 
Arrival
Gallery Simon, Seoul, KR
 
2012
MAM Project 017: Lee Changwon
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
 
Festival O! Gwangju Media Art 2012
5.18 Democracy Square, Gwangju, KR
 
Other Selves
Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, KR
 
Your Invisible Shadow
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
 
2011
Bad Romanticism
Arko Art Center, Seoul, KR
 
Parallel World
Kim Chong Yung Museum, Seoul, KR
 
2010
Pleasure Ground
Lokaal 01, Breda, NL
 
2009
Shared. Divided. United.
NGBK, Berlin, Germany
 
Emerging Korean Artists in the World 2009
Hangarm Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
 
City Net_Asia 2009
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
 
Disappear
AANDO Fine Art, Berlin, Germany
 
2008
Art Through Nature
Space*C Coreana Museum, Seoul, Korea
 
Your Mind's Eye-Digital Spectrum
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
 
Shadow of Heroes
Gallery Fiebach & Minninger, Cologne, Germany
 

2007

Soft Power: Asian Attitude
Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art
 
ASIA-EUROPE mediations 'Asian attitude' 2007
Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan, Poland
 
'Passersby' Window Gallery, Seoul, Korea
 
'Reflection' doART Gallery, Seoul, Korea
 
'Reflexion' Gallery Januar, Bochum, Germany
/ March 02 - April 5, 2007
 
'New Talents', Art Cologne 2007
 

2003

Changwon Lee recent works Gallery Kusseneers, Antwerp, Belgium
 
installation with ground coffee

left: Hurrah! ,right: A Day in Namsan, 2009
Wall installation with ground coffee, each 200x500cm, 500x400cm

a day in namsan close up
 
 
close up ground coffee
 

Namsan(Nam Mountain) in Seoul has a series of statues erected to revive the spirit destroyed by the japanese colonial rule, among them are the statues of Paik Bum Kim Gu, An Jungkeun. These statues are the main motif of Lee's artworks. The statues symbolize the liberation of the Republic of Korea. Ironically the sculpture of these statues is said to have done some pro-japanese acts so there is an endless debate about the removal of these statues. The artist expresses this situation, making the statues with ground coffee, an inappropriate material for sculpture from the traditional point of view. Ground coffee express fleetingness and fragility, and from a sociopolitical stand, it is an object of exploitation by the giant corporations. The intention of the shadow effect made by ground coffee is to inquire about the duality and permanency that the statue possesses.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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