SOMA Museum of Art in Seoul is presenting "Seung-taek Lee: At the Edge of Sculpture," a large-scale exhibition running from April 10 to July 26, 2026, across Exhibition Halls 1–5 and the Olympic Sculpture Park. The show features over 200 works and archival materials spanning from the 1950s to the present, including sculptures, installations, photo-pictures, drawings, and objects. It is the first major solo exhibition by a living artist to occupy both the museum building and the sculpture park.
The exhibition reframes Lee's practice not as a conventional retrospective but as a critical inquiry into how sculpture has expanded since the mid-20th century through material, site, action, and time. Lee's concept of "Non-Sculpture" challenges fixed object-making, emphasizing events and processes. His work, developed independently from Western movements like Minimalism and Arte Povera, offers an important alternative narrative within global modern and contemporary art history, rooted in Korean conditions and sensibilities.