Young-Jae Lee was born in Seoul, Korea in 1951. From 1968 to 1972, she studied at the Seoul College of Art Education before moving to Germany in 1972. From 1973 to 1978, she studied ceramics and mould design at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, after which she opened her own workshop in Sandhausen/Heidelberg. Since 1987, she has managed the Margaretenhöhe Ceramic Workshop in Essen, which was founded by Margarethe Krupp in 1924. Young-Jae Lee has received numerous awards, and in 2016 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. Young-Jae Lee's work centres on vessels and large-format bowls, which she arranges into various installations in her exhibitions, often temporarily redefining her exhibition spaces in the process. Her works installed in this way have been shown in numerous museums in Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Austria, Poland, Japan, Switzerland and the USA.
For many years, Young-Jae Lee has also exhibited in churches and Christian museums such as the St Peter's Art Station in Cologne, Berlin Cathedral, St Stephen's Church in Bamberg and the Diocesan Museum in Freising. In the late Gothic choir of Chemnitz' St. Jakobi city church, Young-Jae Lee has arranged a group of 49 differently coloured, glazed, large-format, round ceramics to form the installation SCHALEN, thus creating a new accent.
From 5 March 2025, the exhibition will be continued as an "intervention on passion" and is thus part of the programme on the PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail in Chemnitz and the region. The vernissage will take place on 9 March 2025 and the exhibition will close on 8 May 2025.
