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Jeewi Lee. Residual Memories. GASAG Art Prize 2026
The GASAG Art Prize winner's first institutional solo show in Berlin: paintings, sculptures and installations built from sand and traces of time.
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A single grain of sand, CT-scanned and enlarged up to 3,000 times, rests on a disc like a boulder. Monopol counts seven large ones and seven smaller.
You walk into the entrance hall under warm light that turns a deeper orange the further in you go. Lee calls it a "dystopian Asian garden": patches of sand on the floor, the grains set among them, scans projected onto nets hung from the ceiling. Her Field of Fragments paintings take their colour only from sand gathered on one coast, named in each title. A 60-minute piece made from recordings of sand plays throughout. Lee notes you're not supposed to take sand home from holiday; she brought hers back from Ghana, Stromboli, New York and Mallorca and had it scanned.
It is dimly lit with no seating, though folding stools are free at the cloakroom. Texts are in German and English. Tickets are €14 (€7 reduced, free under 18), €7 for all on the first Wednesday of the month. Closed Tuesdays.
Look for
The giant sand grains
Look for single grains scanned with nano-CT and printed up to 3,000 times larger, every pit and ridge visible, resting like boulders or Korean suseok stones.
Field of Fragments paintings
Minimal colour-field canvases whose hue is entirely the sand of one coast: greener from Korea's west coast, bright orange from Portugal's Alentejo, whiter from Mallorca.
Scans on hanging nets
The grain scans are projected onto nets hung from the ceiling above the sand islands on the floor.
The deepening orange light
Warm light at the entrance turns a deeper orange as you walk further into the hall, designed with Thorsten Kosellek.
Jared Meier-Klodt's sand soundtrack
A 60-minute composition made from recordings of sand, cut into millisecond sound grains and rebuilt into layered textures, audible across the whole show.
Good for
- Going Solo
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You want pictures of things: the paintings are sand colour fields and the sculptures are grains.
With kids
Under-18s get in free. Some works lie on the floor and are hard to make out in the low light, so keep small children close.
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- Jeewi Lee. Residual Memories. GASAG Art Prize 2026© Courtesy of Jeewi Lee & Phillip C. Reiner
- Between the Lines: Daniel Libeskind and the Jewish Museum BerlinCourtesy of Jewish Museum Berlin
- The Opposite of NowCourtesy of Jewish Museum Berlin
- The Holocaust – What Did the Germans Know?© Medienzentrum Hanau Bildarchiv
- Berlinische GalerieChristoph Rehbach / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Jewish Museum BerlinMarek Śliwecki / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Topography of TerrorStiftung Topographie des Terrors / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
- Gropius BauManfred Brückels / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Deutsches TechnikmuseumSpyrosdrakopoulos / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0