Gallery Hyundai’s booth (G13) at Art Basel 2025 has been selected by Artsy as one of “The 10 Best Booths at Art Basel 2025.” The featured presentation is a solo booth dedicated to Seung-taek Lee, a pioneering figure in Korean experimental art, and is the only solo presentation among the ten selected booths.

The booth mainly comprises Lee’s representative series called the ‘bound’ series that emerged from the original concept he has termed “non-sculpture.” Gallery Hyundai’s presentation highlights Lee’s oeuvre that explores a new language of sculpture by dismantling the formal aesthetics of traditional sculpture and imbuing traces of tension to objects and materiality.

Regarding Seung-taek Lee’s artistic world, Artsy editor Arun Kakar described, “Regarded as a leading figure in Korea’s post-war avant-garde, Seung-taek Lee is best known for upending artistic conventions with a practice he has termed “non-sculpture.” This style of work, which emerged during the same periods as major Western movements such as Arte Povera and Conceptual art, is similarly concerned with challenging conventions around what an artwork should look like and be made of.” 

Regarding the works featured in the booth, he noted, “These works [at the booth] make visible the tensions between freedom and restraint. Whether wrapped tightly around a bronze torso or used to tie rocks onto a tree trunk, the rope in these works is active, almost threatening.”

References

• 갤러리현대 보도자료 (Gallery Hyundai Press Release)
• 아트시(Artsy), The 10 Best Booths at Art Basel 2025