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Mire Lee: Vomit My Blessing
South Korean artist Mire Lee installs a moving, almost-living structure of silicone, steel, motors and liquids exploring desire, decay and transformation.
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Preview: written before the show opened
Part of this show already exists in Vienna. Mire Lee's Secession exhibition, which ran this summer, had a slanted wall crusted with a dried viscous substance and a cement mixer turning sluggishly behind it. Secession says fragments of that show will become part of a site-responsive work in the Oude Kerk.
Lee was born in Seoul in 1988 and lives in Amsterdam. Her sculptures move: silicone, steel, motors and liquids assembled into structures the Oude Kerk describes as almost alive, circling desire, vulnerability, decay and transformation. She has said that "a body that rots is a body that has lived, that has been touched, held, connected." The church's medieval wooden vault is the room they will work in.
The show runs 13 November 2026 to 7 March 2027. Tickets are sold at tickets.oudekerk.nl, and the church is open 10:00 to 18:00, Sundays 13:00 to 17:30.
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Mire Lee fills the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam's oldest building, with a moving, almost living structure of silicone, steel, motors and liquids, about desire, decay and transformation.
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- Mire Lee: Vomit My BlessingPhoto: Melissa Schriek
- The Poor Man's Rembrandt ProjectCourtesy of Rembrandt House Museum
- Experimental UrgeCourtesy of Rembrandt House Museum
- Glass, Made in AntiquityCourtesy of Allard Pierson
- Oude KerkAndreas Praefcke, CC BY 3.0
- Royal Palace AmsterdamC messier, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rembrandt House Museum14:43, 17 October 2006 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Allard PiersonAndy Li (Onthewings), Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Joods Museum (Jewish Museum, Jewish Cultural Quarter)S Sepp / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0