Dong chun Lee
Born in Korea
1998 Diplom, Fachhochschule für Gestaltung Pforzheim, Germany
1992 B.F.A., Kookmin University, Seoul Korea
present Professor, Dept. of Metalwork & Jewelry, College of Design, Kookmin University, Seoul Korea
Solo Exhibitions
2021 ‘Mind·Tears’, Gallery O/ Seoul Korea
2020 ‘flourish wither’ Brooches, Gallery Dam/ Seoul Korea
2015 Smycken, Gallery four/ Göteborg Sweden
2014 ‘flourish wither’, Galerie Marzee/ Nijmegen Netherlands
2014 ‘peacock green & old rose’, Weltraum/ München Germany
2012 ‘the Sound of Breath’, KIMHYUNJOO gallery/ Seoul Korea
2010 Gallery Caroline van Hoek/ Brussels Begium
2009 Sieraden, Galerie Marzee/ Nijmegen Netherlands
2008 ‘Breathe’, Gallery Dam/ Seoul Korea
2005 ‘Art Jewelry’, EBS Space/ Seoul Korea
2004 ‘draw’, do art gallery/ Seoul Korea
2000 ‘Schmuckarbeiten’, Jewelry Atelier feingehalt/ Stuttgart Germany
2000 ‘when two invisible ends come together’, Craft Space MOKKUMTO/ Seoul Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Decorative Digitalism-Int. Contemp. Jewelry Exhbn./ Gallery Ahwon/ Seoul Korea*
2021 Blue•An Uncertain Spring-Int. Contemp. Jewelry Exhbn./ Gallery Baum, Art Space Camerata/ Paju Korea*
2020 100 BROOCHES: Korean Contemporary Jewelry Chronicle, Space of Art Sueño 339/ Seoul Korea*
2019 HAN made-Korean Comtemporary Jewelry, Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h & Gallery O, Sofa Chicago/ USA
2019 PRESENT-40 Years of Galerie Marzee/ Nijmegen Netherlands
2019 Sarangbang, Korean contemporary jewelry, Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h/ Montréal Canada
2019 Diversity Galore. ATTA Gallery/ Bangkok Thailand
2019 Kinesis-Body and Ornament, Gallery Kong, Seoul Korea*
2018 TRIPLE PARADE Biennale for Contemporary Jewellery, HOW Art Museum-Design Center/ Hangzhou China*
2018 Midas’ Garden-Contemporary Gold jewelry Exhibition, Gallery Baum/ Paju Korea*
2017 Plastic Plastic Plastic-Recycle Plastic Jewelry, KIMHYUNJOO gallery/ Seoul Korea*
2017 one of us cannot be wrong, Babette Boucher, Eunmi Chun, Dongchun Lee, Atelier Sunkler/ München Germany
2017 KOREA: DESIGN+PLAKAT, The Design Museum, Die Neue Sammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne/ München Germany
2016 Wood Extended Life-the international contemporary jewelry, Gallery VOGOZE, Seoul Korea*
2016 Korea Now in Munich, contemporary Korean Crafts & Design, Bavarian National Museum/ München Germany*
2015 Body Alchemy, Hangzhou Contemporary Int. Jewelry & Metal Arts Triennial/ Hangzhou China*
2015 KORU5 Int. Contemporary Jewellery, Imatra Art Museum; 2015.10 Vaasa Art Hall/ Imatra, Vaasa Finland*
2015 Invitation from Ilsang, Gallery Ilsang/ Seoul Korea
2015 Silence Please!, Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h/ Montréal Canada
2015 Schmuck 1970–2015; the Bollmann collection, MAK(Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art)/ Vienna Austria*
2014 2009~Collect 2014 (Represented by Galerie Marzee)/ London UK
2014 66. Int. Handwerksmesse Sonderschau Schmuck 2014/ München Germany*
2015 Positionen des Gestaltens, Galerie Handwerk/ München Germany
2013 flower of desire-A New Generation of Art Jewelry, Gallery Artlink/ Seoul Korea*
2013 Ornament and Illusion, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art/ Gwacheon Korea
2013 Transformed-Opening Exhibition, Gallery VOGOZE/ Seoul Korea*
2013 UNEXPECTED PLEASURES, National Gallery of Victoria/ Melbourne(2012); The Design Museum/ London UK*
2012 Mythology of Material, Korea Craft & Design Foundation/ Seoul Korea*
2012 The Poetic Object, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art/ Gwacheon Korea
2012 PRIVATE COSMOS-Korea-Neterlands Art Jewelry Exhibition, Gallery Artlink/ Seoul Korea*
2012 In Between-Korean Contemporary Jewellery, The Museum of Arts and Crafts ITAMI/ Itami Japan*
2011 SIERAAD-Int. Jewellery Art Fair/ Amsterdam Netherlands
2011 Communication & Innovation, Modern Art Center of the China Millennium Monument/ Beijing China*
2011 Craft Dream 2011-Body and Ornament, The Chiwoo Craft Museum/ Seoul Korea*
2011 2000~New York; Chicago Art Fair SOFA (Represented by Charon Kransen Arts)/ New York; Chicago; Santa Fe USA
2010 Galerie Marzee-Sieraden komen tot leven, CODA Museum/ Apeldoorn Netherlands
2009 Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Pressing matter/ Cheongju Korea*
2009 Korean jeweler’s exhibition, Gallery C.A.J./ Kyoto Japan
2009 Int. Art Jewelry Exhibition-Crossing the Border, Gallery Artlink, Seoul/ Gallery Baum, Heyri Korea*
2008 60. Int. Handwerksmesse Sonderschau Schmuck 2008-*Herbert Hofmann Prize/ München Germany*
2008 JUST MUST, The Great Guild House, Estonian History Museum/ Tallinn Estonia*
2008 touching warms the art, Museum of Contemporary/ Oregon USA
2007 JewelryConception-6Artists, Insa Art Center/ Seoul Korea*
2007 ITAMI Int. Craft Exhibition Jewellery, The Museum of Arts & Crafts/ Itami Japan*
2006 Jewelry for Men, Lock Museum/ Seoul Korea*
2006 100 Necklaces filled with dream, The Collection Seoul Auction Gangnam Branch/ Seoul Korea
2005 Ieum-20. Exhibition of Chohyung metalsmiths society/ Insa Art Center/ Seoul Korea
2005 Alchemists 2005-50 Boxes, 50 Surprises , Insa Art Center/ Seoul Korea*
2005 ITAMI Int. Craft Exhibition Jewellery, The Museum of Arts & Crafts/ Itami Japan*
2005 Cheongju International Craft Biennale, The Adventure of Craft in 21stCentury/ Cheongju Korea*
2005 Beyond Artifice, The Chiwoo Craft Museum/ Seoul Korea*
2005 57. Int. Handwerksmesse Sonderschau Schmuck 2005/ München Germany*
2004 SUGGESTION-8Artists, Gana Art Space/ Seoul Korea*
2004 200 RINGS, Gallery Space/ San Francisco USA
2004 plastic plastic plastic, Korean Craft Promotion Foundation/ Seoul Korea*
2004 56. Int. Handwerksmesse Sonderschau Schmuck 2004/ München Germany*
2003 International Jewelry Exhibition,Gallery Materia/ Arizona USA
2003 Crafts, Craft House/ Seoul Korea
2003 SUGGESTION-8Artists, Insa Art Center/ Seoul, Gallery Pho/ Busan Korea
2003 New Acquisitions 2002, National Museum of Contemporary Art/ Gwacheon Korea
2002 700 Rings, Insa Art Center/ Seoul Korea
2002 At Beauty’s Edge, Soul-Stirring Works,Gallery Patina/New Mexico USA
2002 Natur und Zeit, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau/ Hanau Germany
2002 Young Korean Artists Exhibition 2002, National Museum of Contemporary Art/ Gwacheon Korea
2002 54. Int. Handwerksmesse Sonderschau Schmuck 2002/ München Germany*
2001 SUGGESTION, Craft Space MOKKUMTO/ Seoul Korea*
2001 Schmuck 2001, Avantgarde im neuen Jahrtausend, Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus/ Bremen Germany
2001 53. Int. Handwerksmesse Sonderschau Schmuck 2001/ München Germany*
2001 Jewelry in Imagination, Craft Space MOKKUMTO/ Seoul Korea
2000 Int. 20thCentury Arts Fair New York/ New York USA
2000 Gallery Sagan OPENING SHOW/ Seoul Korea*
1999 Schmuck-Sebastian Hartkopf, Herman Hermsen, Dongchun Lee, Gallery CEBRA/ Düsseldorf Germany
1999 Für Dich Für Mich/ Schwäbisch Gmünd Germany*
1999 Schmuckklänge, Gallery CEBRA/ Düsseldorf Germany
1999 Schmuck-Ute Eitzenhöfer, Wilfrid Houba, Dongchun Lee, Jewelry Gallery Michèle Zeller/ Bern Switzerland
1999 51. Int. Handwerksmesse Sonderschau Schmuck ’99/ München Germany*
1999 Sieraden, de keuze van Arnhem, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem/ Netherlands*
1998 ‘Antike Ringe-Neue Ringe’ Eine Konfrontation, Gallery Katia Rid/ München Germany
1998 Schmuck und Gerät, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau/ Hanau, Idar-Oberstein Germany*
1998 Landesausstellung Kunsthandwerk Baden-Württemberg ’98/ Laupheim Germany*
1998 Design 2000, International Jewellery London ¢98/ London England
1998 MIDORA Design Award ’98/ Leipzig, Bern Switzerland*
1998 Int. Sommerschmuckausstellung Männerschmuck, Jewelry Gallery Michèle Zeller/Bern Switzerland
1998 Der Kreislauf der Dinge/ Ziegelbrücke, Bern Switzerland*
1998 12. Sibertriennle,Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau/ Hanau*
1998 Degree Show, Gallery Marzee/ Nijmegen Netherlands*
1998 50. Int. Handwerksmesse Sonderschau Schmuck ’98/ München Germany*
*Catalog
Exhibitions Curated
2021 Alchemists-Life at Home/ KCDF Galley/ Seoul Korea
2021 Blue•An Uncertain Spring-Int. Cotemp. Jewelry Exhbn./ Gallery Baum, Art Space Camerata/ Paju Korea
2020 100 BROOCHES: Korean Contemporary Jewelry Chronicle, Space of Art Sueño 339/ Seoul Korea
2017 Plastic Plastic Plastic-Recycle Plastic Jewelry, KIMHYUNJOO gallery/ Seoul Korea
2016 Wood Extended Life-the international contemporary jewelry, Gallery VOGOZE/ Seoul Korea
2013 flower of desire-A New Generation of Art Jewelry, Gallery Artlink/ Seoul Korea
2012 Alchemists-Mythology of Material/ KCDF Gallery/ Seoul Korea
2012 PRIVATE COSMOS-Korea-Neterlands Art Jewelry Exhibition, Gallery Artlink/ Seoul Korea
2012 In Between-Korean Contemporary Jewellery, The Museum of Arts and Crafts ITAMI/ Itami Japan
2009 Int. Art Jewelry Exhibition-Crossing the Border, Gallery Artlink, Seoul/ Gallery Baum, Heyri, Korea
2007 JewelryConception-6Artists, Insa Art Center/ Seoul Korea
2005 Ieum-20. Exhibition of Chohyung metalsmiths society/ Insa Art Center/ Seoul Korea
2004 SUGGESTION-8Artists, Gana Art Space/ Seoul Korea
2004 plastic plastic plastic, Korean Craft Promotion Foundation/ Seoul Korea
2003 SUGGESTION-8Artists, Insa Art Center/ Seoul, Gallery Pho/ Busan Korea
2001 SUGGESTION(co-curation), Craft Space MOKKUMTO/ Seoul Kore-
Collections
National Museum of Contemporary Art/ Gwacheon Korea(2002/2012)
The Alice and Louis Koch Collection/ Basel Switzerland(2003)
The Chiwoo Craft Museum/ Seoul Korea(2004)
Buyeo National Museum/ Buyeo Korea(2006)
Museum of Contemporary/ Oregon USA(2008)
Die Danner Stiftung/ München Germany(2008)
Die Pinakothek der Moderne/ München Germany(2008/2011)
The Heidi and Karl Bollmann Collection/ Austria(2008)
Art Bank Korea/ National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon Korea(2009)
Marzee Collection/ Nijmegen Netherlands(2009)