Seolhui Lee (lives and works in Denmark) is the artistic director for the Korean Pavilion 2024, Venice Biennale with Jacob Fabricius and a curator at Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark (2023–present). She previously served as the head of the exhibition team for the Busan Biennale 2020, a curator at the Seoul Museum of Art (South Korea, 2018–2019), and worked for the Korea Artist Prize 2012 at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea (2012–2013). Lee has curated multitudinous exhibitions in many countries, recently presenting KOO JEONG A – ODORAMA CITIES (Korean Pavilion, Italy, 2024), the series exhibition I am your Body: Chapter 1 – Automation and Chapter 2 – Flesh (Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, 2024), Rhizome – Network Without Center Point (Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, 2024), KOO JEONG A: EHM [Event Horizon Malmö] (Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, 2024), and My Brilliant Friend (The Romanian Association of Contemporary Art, Romania, 2024), among others. In addition, Lee served as an adjunct professor at the Korea National University of Arts (2019–2022) where she taught ‘Korean Contemporary Art History since 1960’ and additional courses at the Kaywon University of Art & Design (South Korea, 2022–2023). Lee’s essays have been published in Korean Contemporary Art Since 1990 (2017) and Reading Korean Contemporary Art with Keywords (2019). She is also a contributor for various art publications, including the contemporary Korean art magazine Art In Culture since 2020. She was a senior editor for Contemporary Art Forum (2020–2022) and recently published books for established Korean artists’ such as Kim Beom (Workroom: Seoul, 2024) and Koo Jeong A (Distanz: Berlin, 2024). Lee earned a master’s degree in Art History from Ewha Womans University (South Korea, 2015) and was selected for the ‘Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course’ (South Korea, 2016), ‘Tate Modern Intensive Course’ (UK, 2019), and invited to the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival’s Forum (Denmark, 2024).
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