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The Anatomy of Every Setting Sun

Lee Bul

Hauser & Wirth New York
,
New York
September 10, 2026
—
October 24, 2026

Lee Bul’s first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth presents major new sculptures and recent works examining modernity, technology, power and imagined futures.

EXHIBITION DETAILS
GALLERY
542 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA
DATES:
September 10, 2026
to
October 24, 2026
ARTISTS
Lee Bul
CURATOR
Dr. Jiyoon Lee
PHOTOGRAPHER
LOCATION
New York

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

This September, Hauser & Wirth New York will present the gallery’s first exhibition with Lee Bul, one of the most influential artists of her generation and a singular voice in contemporary art’s ongoing reckoning with the promises and failures of modernity. Bringing together major new sculptures with recent bodies of work, ‘The Anatomy of Every Setting Sun,’ organized by guest curator Dr. Jiyoon Lee, extends Lee’s decades-long examination of humanity’s drive to transcend nature through technology and systems of control. The works on view reveal the tensions between utopian aspiration and inevitable collapse, exposing the entangled relationships between technology, history and nature.

Image for exhibition
Untitled (Willing To Be Vulnerable—Velvet #29)2026Mother-of-pearl, acrylic paint, collage on silk velvet180 x 130 x 2 cm / 70 7/8 x 51 1/8 x 3/4 in© Lee BulPhoto: Jeon Byung-cheol

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