Young-Jae Lee was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1951. From 1968 to 1972 she studied there at the College of Art Education, before emigrating to Germany in 1972. In 1972/73 she worked as an intern under Christine Tappermann in Wallrabenstein, and from 1973 to 1978 she studied ceramics under Margot Münster and design under Erwin Schutzbach at Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences. From 1978 she worked in her own workshop in Sandhausen near Heidelberg, and from 1984 to 1987 she was academic and artistic assistant to Ralf Busz at the University of Kassel. Since 1987 Young-Jae Lee has been head of the Ceramic Workshop Margaretenhöhe in Essen.
In 2015 she was visiting professor of ceramics at the Institute for Art and Design at the EWHA Womans University in Seoul, and in 2016 was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland. Young-Jae Lee has received numerous distinctions for her work, e.g. the gold medal of the Bavarian State Prize, the prize for women artists awarded by the state of North Rhine Westphalia, the ceramic prize awarded by the Frechener Kulturstiftung, and the Richard Bampi prize. In addition, the Ceramics Workshop Margaretenhöhe won the 1st prize of the Hesse State Prize for German Crafts in 1997 and 2005, and the 1st Bavarian State Prize for Design in 2001. That same year, the workshop won the 1st prize Les Must de scènes d’intérieur in Paris.
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Exhibitions
GMA Ha Jung-woong Museum of Art, Sangmu-daero, Seo-gu, Kwangju, South Korea
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Mischanlage der Kokerei UNESCO Weltkulturerbe Zollverein, Essen, Germany
Dommuseum Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Korean Cultural Center Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Gartenpavillon des Klosters Beuerberg, Diözesanmuseums Freising, Germany
Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Oktogon), Dresden, Germany
Museum of Architecture, Wrocław, Poland
Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Kraków, Poland
MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst e.V., Schloss Detmold, Detmold, Germany
Schloss Reinbek, Reinbek, Germany
LWL-Industriemuseum, Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg, Waltrop, Germany
Emil-Schumacher-Museum, Hagen, Germany
Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany
Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Altana Kulturstiftung im Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
Kunstverein Heinsberg, Heinsberg-Unterbruch, Germany
Galerie DKM, Duisburg, Germany
KOLUMBA, Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn, Germany
Bibliothek Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany
KOLUMBA, Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Uhn, Königstein, Germany
Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin, Germany
City Museum of Wroclaw Arsenal, Kraków, Poland
Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartkunst, Vienna, Austria
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Musée de Louvre, Paris, France
St. Stephanskirche, Bamberg, Germany
Biennale, Poznań, Poland
Forum am Schillerplatz, Vienna, Austria
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Palais de Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
Koo New York, NY, USA
Kunstraum Falkenstein, Hamburg, Germany
Rietberg Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Cismar, Germany
7. Triennale, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany
Kloster Unserer lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
Stiftung Keramion, Zentrum für moderne und historische Keramik, Frechen, Germany
Stiftung Keramion, Zentrum für moderne und historische Keramik, Frechen, Germany
VHS, Leverkusen, Germany
Bad Hersfeld, Germany
Cologne, Germany
Faenza, Italy
Seoul, South Korea
Sweden
Hetjens - Deutsches Keramikmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany