LEE Mingwei: “Five Stories”

Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion is pleased to welcome artist LEE Mingwei to the UC Berkeley Campus. Mingwei will present a talk titled, “Five Stories” on the topic of his art, religion, and spirituality.

Artist LEE Mingwei creates participatory installations that explore trust, intimacy and self-awareness through interactive, reflective experiences. His recent exhibition, Lee Mingwei: Rituals of Care, at the de Young Museum, showcases art’s power to bridge divides and foster unity in challenging times. In this talk, he will share his practice, inspirations, and stories behind the work.

LEE Mingwei 李明維 Born in Taiwan and currently living in Paris, New York and Taipei, LEE Mingwei creates participatory installations, where strangers can explore issues of trust, intimacy, and self-awareness, and one-on-one events, in which visitors contemplate these issues with the artist through eating, sleeping, walking and conversation. LEE’s projects are often open-ended scenarios for everyday interaction and take on different forms with participants’ involvement and change during an exhibition. He has held solo exhibitions internationally, including Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | de Young, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Gropius Bau, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Mori Art Museum, and has been featured in biennales in Venice, Lyon, Liverpool, Taipei, Shanghai, Sharjah, Sydney, Whitney, and Asia Pacific Triennials.

Sponsors: Presented by the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion. Co-Sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Arts Research Center and the Department of Art Practice.

Admission: Admission is free and open to students, faculty, and the community.

For more information or for accessibility related inquiries, please write to Iliana Morton, ilianamorton@berkeley.edu.

Photo (1) Courtesy of Museum Villa Stuck, photo by Barbara Donaubauer.

Photo (2) Courtesy of LEE Studio.