
Youngjun Lee

Biography
Based in Germany, Youngjun Lee continues to explore painting through a geological stratum-inspired layering technique. Layer by layer, he constructs images on his canvas, balancing structural rules with the spontaneity of each layer. These levels are filled with unconscious, rhythm-driven patterns, repetitive shapes, and abstract forms that arise freely. This interplay of intention and chance in each frame creates an intriguing tension. Lee employs a range of materials and techniques-oil and acrylic paint, pencil, silkscreen, airbrush, and more- as well as visual elements like dots, lines, surfaces, and colors to differentiate each layer. Occasionally, he pushes this further by erasing, cutting, or adding sections to blur the boundaries between strata. This continual process of fusing and dismantling shapes each work into a complex landscape of forms and vibrant hues, reminiscent of expose, eroded terrain viewed from above.
Youngjun Lee(b.1983) earned a B.A. in Fine Arts at Sungkyunkwan University in 2012, after which he acquired a Diplom for Fine Arts at AdBk München, Germany, in 2020. Starting with his show at Galerie Sebastianskapelle Ulm e.V, Germany, in 2023, Lee has had solo exhibitions at Space Cadalogs, Seoul, the same year, at Gallery Jiwooheon, Seoul, in 2024, and PIBI Gallery, Seoul, in 2025. He has also participated in various group exhibitions at IDFX, the Netherlands, Germany’s Kunstraum-Leitershofen and Galerie der Künstler, Prompt Project, Seoul, Everyart, Seoul, and more. He has been selected for Artist in Residence Munich from the Ministry of Culture of Munich, Germany (2023 - 2026), the Bavarian Award for the Advancement of the Arts, Germany (2023 – 2024), a special award from the German Arts Fund NEUSTART KULTUR, and the Free State of Bavaria scholarship program (2021).