Sojung Lee (b.1995, Seoul) explores an idea of ‘placeholder’ in personal and social contexts to consider an image as a holder seizing temporality. Working with text, images, and objects, she highlights the function of a placeholder as an imperfect guide leading our consciousness throughout the past and present. Extending the general meaning of a placeholder through speculative stories, she questions how it engages with temporality, substitution, replacement, and (re)contextualization, and how it represents the contemporary visual culture.



2022    MFA in Media, Art & Technology, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen (NL)
2018    BFA  in Oriental Painting, Hongik University, Seoul (KR)


Group Exhibition

2024    Search History, Willow Art Space, Groningen (NL)
2024    The New Current 2024, Brutus, Rotterdam (NL)

2023    A Collection of Urban Nothingness, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam(NL)
2023    In Between This Or That, Galerie Noord, Groningen (NL)

2022    Murky Waters & Clear Sights, De Pelikaan, Groningen (NL)
2022    We Are Angry But That’s Ok, Kriterion, Amsterdam (NL)
2022    Lucht 2.0, Groningen (NL)
2022    Future Nostalgia. FM, Weimar (DE)
2022    Last Year, We Didn’t Even Have A Name, Groningen (NL)
2022    RE;present, Groningen (NL)


Solo Exhibition

2024    Stigma, Bierumer School, Bierum (NL)


Performance/Event

2024    Tumultuous Ties, CvA Blue Stage, Amsterdam (NL)
2023    The Path, DIHAN, Groningen (NL)
2023    Sleepless Nights Wake Up The Plants, A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose, Amsterdam (NL)


Art Fair

2023    NNN fair, Framer Framed, Amsterdam (NL)


Residency/Program

2024    Stigma, Bierumer School, Bierum (NL)
2024    Digital Residency, Willow Art Space, Groningen (NL)
2022    Midseason 2022, Het Resort, Groningen (NL)


Publication

2022    A look inside Sojung Lee’s studio, Kunstpunt Groningen
2022    Graduation Shows 2022 - Academie Minerva Groningen, Metropolis M