On site with Lee Ufan

In 2025, travellers on the Art Gallery’s International Study Tours to Japan visited the artist Lee Ufan in a rare opportunity to see his studio and hear from the artist himself. Renowned as a master of materials and simplicity, Lee Ufan creates works which generate sensations of harmony and tension between objects and people.

A sculpture by the artist titled Relatum – Dialogue 2025 sits on the lawn midway between the Naala Nura and Naala Badu buildings. Relatum – Dialogue comprises of a pair of large rocks placed either side of mirror-polished stainless steel and joins Yayoi Kusama’s Flowers that Bloom in the Cosmos 2022 and Lee Mingwei’s Spirit House 2022 as major sculptural commissions by Asian artists for the Art Gallery.

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Photography by Tetsuya Ito.