Spotlight Tour with Seulgi Lee

Join artist Seulgi Lee for a free tour of her solo exhibition SPAN, drawing on Lee’s “methodology for measuring between things, ways of working with them, histories and collective stories”.  

For her exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Lee explores a historical measurement – the span of the human hand – through artworks from ongoing projects alongside new pieces commissioned by Ikon. 

This exhibition is made possible by lead supporter Bagri Foundation, with additional support from Ikon lead benefactor ai. gallery; Korea Artist Prize Promotion Fund, from SBS Foundation and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; and Trampoline, Association in support of the French art scene, Paris.  

About the speaker 

Seulgi Lee was born in Seoul in 1972 and has been living in Paris since 1992. After graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, she founded PARIS PROJECT ROOM to promote collaboration among artists (2001). 

Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, most recently: Busan Biennale, curated by Jacob Fabricius (2020); Stories of Abstraction: Greenberg’s Nightmare, curated by Marjolaine Lévy, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris; Refugia, curated by Jiyoon Yang, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul (2021); Frequencies of Tradition, Kadist, San Francisco (2022); 17th Lyon Biennale, curated by Alexia Fabre (2024); and We are in Open Circuits, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi (2025). Recent solo exhibitions include WE ARE NOT SYMMETRICAL, curated by Filipa Oliveira, La Casa da Cerca, Almada, Portugal (2020); SLOW WATER, curated by Hyunjin Kim, Incheon Art Platform, Korea (2021); Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2022); Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris (2022); and SAMSAM, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul (2024). She has made limited editions for Hermès (2017) and Ikea (2019), and her work is part of many international public collections.  

Winner of the 2020 Korea Artist Prize, for which she presented a major exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2020), Lee was also awarded a residency at the Villa Kujoyama with the Institut Français in Kyoto (2023). Her work is represented by Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris and Gallery Hyundai, Seoul.