Jeewi Lee. GASAG Art Prize 2026

In her artistic practice Jeewi Lee works with site-specific installations, sculpture, serial paintings and interventions. She often uses simple, seemingly worthless materials and artefacts that carry allegorical traces of lived experience, memory, time and transience. These traces serve as a starting point for her artistic research, where scientific analysis of the material blends with aspects of Taoist philosophy and personal mythology to create a visual universe that is poetic and contemplative. At the Berlinische Galerie, the winner of the 2026 GASAG Art Prize will present a site-specific installation. The exhibition will be held in conjunction with Berlin Art Week 2026. GASAG Art Prize Initiated by GASAG, the award has been presented in partnership with the Berlinische Galerie since 2010. Every two years, the partners honour an outstanding artistic position at the interface between art, science, and technology. About the artist Jeewi Lee (*1987 in Seoul, South Korea), whose origins are Korean and German, studied painting from 2008 until 2014 at the University of the Arts in Berlin and Hunter College in New York. Since 2015 her work has been shown at many exhibitions in Germany and abroad. She received the Villa Romana Prize in 2018, the Kunstpreis junger westen in 2021 and a Villa Aurora fellowship in 2025. Jeewi Lee lives and works in Berlin. Read more Toggle Sculpture Multi-disciplinary Mixed media Installation Painting