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Busan Museum of Art’s Annex “Space Lee Ufan” Marks 10th Anniversary with Citizen Participation Events

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Busan Museum of Art announced that its annex, Space Lee Ufan, will host a series of citizen participation events in celebration of its 10th anniversary starting in October 2025.

The museum will sequentially present a variety of cultural programs such as a guestbook event, an online quiz event, a tea experience, and a 10th-anniversary commemorative concert.

Guestbook Event

The “Guestbook Event” invites visitors to share their memories from the past ten years with Space Lee Ufan by writing in the guestbook.
The event will run until October 19, and participation is available at the café inside Space Lee Ufan.
Fifty participants who leave the most memorable entries will be selected to receive commemorative gifts.

Online Quiz Event

The “Online Quiz Event” consists of quiz questions related to Space Lee Ufan and can be easily accessed via social media (SNS).
It will be held from October 28 to November 9, and 30 participants who answer correctly will be selected by lottery to receive commemorative gifts.

Tea Experience

At the “Tea Experience,” visitors can awaken their senses while enjoying tea at the café inside Space Lee Ufan.
This program allows participants to experience the space both physically and emotionally and to freely share their impressions of the venue.

10th Anniversary Commemorative Concert

The commemorative concert will feature original compositions inspired by Lee Ufan’s artistic world, as well as music that has influenced the artist.
Through this performance, the concert will present an artistic experience that combines visual and auditory resonance, reflecting the profound impact of Lee’s art.

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Space Lee Ufan is a special building personally designed by the artist himself—from the basic architectural concept and artwork arrangement down to the smallest office furnishings—making it a work of art in its own right.
Opened in April 2015, the space has a total floor area of 1,400.83 square meters, consisting of one underground and two aboveground levels.

Following the opening of the Lee Ufan Museum on Naoshima Island, Japan, in 2010, several Korean cities competed to host a similar space.
Busan proposed a site within Busan Citizens Park, and through the consistent persuasion of Busan Metropolitan City and local artists—as well as the city’s significance as where the artist spent his school years—Lee agreed to establish the space.
An agreement to build Space Lee Ufan was signed in July 2013, after which the artist donated numerous works, laying the foundation for its permanent exhibitions.

Born in 1936 in Haman, Gyeongnam, Lee Ufan grew up amid the turbulent times of Korea’s liberation and the Korean War.
He attended Gyeongnam Middle School in Busan, spending his adolescent years in the city, and later entered the Department of Oriental Painting at Seoul National University’s College of Fine Arts in 1956.
That same year, he moved to Japan and graduated from Nihon University’s College of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Philosophy, in 1961.
He began his professional art career in 1967 with his first solo exhibition at Sato Gallery in Tokyo.

In his critical writings such as Beyond Being and Nothingness and On Nobuo Sekine, Lee questioned form-centered creation and instead proposed viewing art as a field of relationships among objects, space, time, and viewers’ perception.
This perspective became a key theoretical basis for understanding Mono-ha (“School of Things”) and influenced, and was in turn influenced by, Korea’s Dansaekhwa (monochrome painting) movement.

Lee Ufan continues to work actively across Korea, Japan, and France, and has received numerous honors including the Order of Cultural Merit (Gold Crown) of Korea, the UNESCO Art Prize, and the Praemium Imperiale of Japan.

Detailed schedules for the 10th-anniversary events will be announced sequentially through future press releases and via the official website of Busan Museum of Art (art.busan.go.kr) and its social media channels.

Seo Jin-seok, Director of Busan Museum of Art, stated,
“Space Lee Ufan is an architectural masterpiece personally designed by the artist and an important cultural asset of Busan.
We hope that citizens will take this opportunity to experience the space and its artworks from a fresh perspective through the diverse programs marking its 10th anniversary.”