Lee Ufan

This catalog accompanies the first comprehensive retrospective of the Korean painter and sculptor Lee Ufan (born 1936) in Germany. The exhibition gathers around 50 works from the past five decades, featuring an extraordinary highlight. Rembrandt’s famous Self-Portrait with Velvet Beret (1634) from the Berlin Gemäldegalerie is shown for the first time at Hamburger Bahnhof alongside Lee’s expansive installation Relatum – The Mirror Road (2016–23). Ufan, who repeatedly refers to European roots in his corpus of works, enters into a multilayered dialogue with the Old Master.