Aram Lee (KR)

Aram Lee is a Korean artist living and working in Amsterdam. Her practice examines how colonial and modern institutions have fixed time, bodies, and perception through objects, spaces, media, and non-human agents. Working with institutional residues – such as museum practices, preservation technologies, territorial sites, and ecological matter – she explores how historical systems continue to shape memory and the conditions of the present.

Lee is the co-founder of When site lost the plot, an artist-run organisation and platform operating between an exhibition space, a publishing collective, and a cinema. Founded in Amsterdam, it investigates how site-specificity is shifting under conditions of migration, climate change, global circulation, and emerging nationalisms. Her work has been presented at museums, biennials, and research platforms including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Wereldmuseum, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and the Biennale de Dakar. She was an artist-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie, the Goethe-Institut Marseille, and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten as part of the Pressing Matter programme.