Aram Lee

Current
8 May 2025 - Jan 2028, UNFINISHED PASTS, Return, keep, or…?, Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

Forthcoming
21 March 2026 Regarding the Third Ear: Vessels, Sonic Acts Biennial, Zone2Source, Amsterdam

28 April 2026 Workshops, Artist talk, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague

13 June 2026 Performance, Bétonsalon, centre d’art et de recherche, Paris

25 June - 9 August 2026, Solo Exhibition, Buro Stedelijk, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

19 August - 23 October 2026, Exhibition, Unboxing Project, Songeun, Seoul

4 September 2026 - 1 November 2026, Exhibition, W139, Amsterdam

Every Worm Trampled is a Star (2025)

Exploring the possibility of the land’s recovery by listening to its autobiographical voice as it reclaims itself after 100 years of occupation.

Transcorporeality in Toxic Times (2025)

Bodies are affected by toxicity. They absorb and transform it, suffer from it, and yet also turn vulnerability into a site of resistance.

Everything was forever, until it was no more (2025)

Explores how colonial practices sustain toxicity by privileging objects over life, revealing the paradox of care that kills.

Vowels Are Connected to the Holes of the Body (2024)

Using vowels as a freed sound, the project attempts to blend the boundaries of human and non-human bodies.

Holding Poison (2023)

Holding Poison is performance, choreographed by ninety five Microbes.

Synchronic Cinema : Shadow Zones in maps (2023)

Experimental and structuralist films are often intended to be anti-narrative, until a look in the archives reveals a complex of “characters” and “scenes”, each with their own lay of the land.

X-hale (2023)

Video shows an X-ray image of an immigrant body during a Tuberculosis (TB) test that seems to be inhabited by moving organisms.

The Nervous Canines (2022)

Investigates the temporal anomalies and reappropriation of fictionalities in institutional archives.

On a Possible Passing From the Inscription to the Body (2020)

Digital technologies combine with human hair to circumnavigate the transhistorical temporality of an object by activating new inscriptions to its body, as well as our own, through reciprocal heuristic involvement.

Tropical, Objects, Turns (2019)

Can forms and ideas from the global South, contained within the Tropical objects of European museums, lead us to future adaptations for our new climate conditions?

A Dissonance of Landscapes (2019)

Ten Export Winter Landscapes are taken out from the dark museum archive and a conversation is shaped between two historical contexts, collaging them into one heterogeneous scene.

La Grande Transformation (2019)

A project researching the transformation of contemporary objects that were forced to change through the paradigm of 20th century modernisation.

From Props to Objects (2019)

A performance about De Appel’s unintended collection; consisting of a group of artworks and other objects that have been coincidentally assembled in the archive throughout the institution’s history.

From Pyongyang to Pluto and Back (2019)

A journey through a diaspora of images and people in search of North Korea, one of the world’s most inaccessible and unknown places.

Post Ghost Bust (2018)

Using the performativity of ghosts as a medium to explore their links to colonial modernity, archiving, folk culture and the collective imagination.

Berlin, Inside Out (2018)

Research concerning different methodologies of contemporary mediation in three different museums by exploring the relationship between artefacts inside the depots and their outside realities.

Dutch Wife (2017⁠–⁠2022)

Using the performativity of repatriation and remaking, archival and field research from Indonesia and the Netherlands are brought together to investigate the notion of “return” as a pattern for remedying colonial objects.

Inside Out, ZZM (2016)

A project connecting the objects in the archive of the Zuiderzeemuseum with the region’s geographically transformative history of dike-building and its contemporary location.