photo of box with folded jacket — Lee Mingwei, Fabric of Memory, 2006 – pågående/present Photo: Laura Fiorio, Courtesy of Gropius Bau

Lee Mingwei

Best regards, Lee Mingwei

26.9 2025 – 11.1 2026

Malmö

Opens in 25 days

Invitations are the starting point for Lee Mingwei’s artworks. Often, they originate from personal encounters and experiences and become an offering to the visitor, creating an exchange between individuals.

The objects displayed in the exhibition are collected from private individuals – everyday items and letters we haven’t taken the time to write are central. The artist transforms the places he visits and goes beyond the usual museum logic as he mends clothes and drinks tea with the visitor.

Lee Mingwei’s artistry is part of a practice based on performativity and participation but equally rooted in a tradition of gifts and rituals connected to aesthetic and philosophical concepts from various cultures. In the fall of 2025, Moderna Museet Malmö will present works that evolve and change throughout the exhibition period, alongside documentation providing insight into the artist’s methods.

Lee Mingwei lives in Paris, New York, and Taipei. Already when he received his master’s degree from Yale University in 1997, he began the working method that has become characteristic of his artistry. Over the past ten years, Lee Mingwei has had major solo exhibitions around the world, including at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2014), Gropius Bau in Berlin (2020), and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (2024).