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Exhibition "Schalen" by Young-Jae Lee at St Jakobikirche Chemnitz

Korean-born Young-Jae Lee has been a trailblazer in the world of artistic ceramics for fifty years. She wants to create bowls and vases from clay "as the world has never seen them before". 49 of these will now be on display in Chemnitz, bringing secular art into churches once again.
Photo: Torree Hahn

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St Jacob's Church Chemnitz

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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.

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It's Moving

It's time to get out of the city - to the 38 partner municipalities of the Capital of Culture Chemnitz. Into a cultural region that is rediscovering its own tradition and history in a moving exchange and focusing on its themes. In motion! opens up new encounters in projects along the Purple Path, the art and sculpture trail that is currently being created, and initiates joint negotiations on the future of the region.

European Capital of Culture The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media Free State of Saxony European Capital of Culture

This project is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the parliamentary budget of the state of Saxony and by federal funds from the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media).