MAREIKE YIN‐YEE LEE
*Toronto, Canada
lives and works in Berlin, Germany


EDUCATION//AUSBILDUNG
2003 BFA Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, CA
2002 University of Toronto, Arts and Science
2001 Universität der Künste, Berlin DE
1998 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, CA
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS//EINZEL/ZWEIERAUSTELLUNGEN
2024 c h a m a e l e o n . Drawing installation. A TRANS-Vitrine Berlin, Germany
2023 A few thoughts on how things fit together. Installation in collaboration with composer Michael Winter. Galerie im Lichthof Ost, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany
2022 Imagined Worlds Expanding. Installation with composer Ellen Arkbro. Khimaira, Stockholm, Sweden
2019 SinusTon. Magdeburg, Germany.
2018 RIGHT OR WRONG CORNER. With the room installation "Meridians". A TRANS @ Kunstpunkt Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2015 WAVES: From me to You. Mute Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 SLAPBACK. A trans Pavilion, Berlin, Germany
2006 HUT: Red Threads and Welcome and Heart. Galerie MAI (Montreal Arts Interculturels), Montreal, Canada
2006 YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL. Stichting Duende, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2005 W TYM MIESCIE *wie tym momencie* IN THIS CITY *at this instant* But really it could just be called Longing. Galerie Naprzewic, Poznan, Poland
2003 Pink Arm Lived and then Died. Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada
2001 makeshift. Khyber Closet Gallery, Halifax, Canada
2001 Always wanted(sidelong)(otherthings, othertimes)or place for a wallflower". Eyelevel Gallery Windows, Halifax, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS//GRUPPENAUSTELLUNGEN
2024 Anonymous Drawings and Lines Fiction. Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.
2022 Tacit Affinities. Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.
2022 RELATIONAL GROUNDS: Drawing in Space. BLA Connect. B-LA Connect, SILA Projects and ATrans, Los Angeles, USA.
2022 Shimmering Contours. BLA Connect. Residency Exhibition, Leveld Kunstnartun, Leveld, Norway.
2021 We Sing for the Future. With "SEE HEAR", an audiovisual film collaboration w/ composer Marc Sabat, performed by the Harmonic Space Orchestra and guests. Louth Contemporary Music Society Festival, Louth, Ireland.
2020 Harmonic Space 2020: James Tenney. Kindl Zentrum für zeitgenössische Künst and KM28, Berlin, Germany.
2020 At the still point of the turning world. Audiovisual collaboration with The Still. Kunsthaus Kule, Berlin, Germany.
2020 Seiten | Räume. Linienscharen, Platform für zeitgenössische Zeichnung. Künstlerhaus Ulm, Germany.
2020 Hands to Mouths. Beyond 2020: Microtonal Music Festival. Pittsburgh, USA.
2019 Seiten | Räume. Linienscharen, Platform für zeitgenössische Zeichnung. Museum Ritter, Waldenbruch, Germany.
2019 Seiten | Räume. Linienscharen, Platform für zeitgenössische Zeichnung. Hospitalhof Stuttgart, Germany.
2019 Chords, Melodies. Organized by Fredrik Rasten and Marc Sabat. KM28, Berlin, Germany.
2019 Seiten | Räume. Linienscharen, Platform für zeitgenössische Zeichnung. Städtischen Galerie Ostfildern, Germany.
2018 AMBITUS. Kunst und Musik Heute. (September - January 2019) "HANDS TO MOUTHS", collaboration with composer Marc Sabat, video installation and composition, Kunstmuseum Kloster unser lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Germany
2018 Seiten | Räume. Künstlerbuch-Projekt der Linienscharen, Platform für zeitgenössische Zeichnung. Schriftstellerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany.
2018 Seiten | Räume. Künstlerbuch-Projekt der Linienscharen, Platform für zeitgenössische Zeichnung. Stadtbibliothek am Mailänder Platz - Graphothek, Stuttgart,Germany.
2018 WATER WALK. With "Light Ground", (collaboration w/ Marc Sabat) film installation+live music performance played by members of the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop and singer Marianne Svasek. Kunstmuseum Kloster unser lieben Frauen / Gesellschaftshaus Magdeburg, Germany
2018 Seiten | Räume. Künstlerbuch-Projekt der Linienscharen, Platform für zeitgenössische Zeichnung. Württembergischer Kunstverein (WKV), Stuttgart Germany.
2018 KunstBUCH. With the artist book "Keeping Tides Tidal". "Powering down at dusk", modo Verlag, Freiburg, Germany
2017 Dreams and Fears. With the room installation "Powering down at dusk", Kunstbezirk Stuttgart, Gustav-Siegle-Haus, Stuttgart, Germany
2017 sun left field walk. Room installation for in_visible limits at Kunst(zeug)haus Rapperswil, Switzerland
2016 in_visible limits. With the room installation "PRE BE LOVED, 2 LAKES", Kunsthaus Interlaken, Switzerland
2016 differenzierbare Mannigfaltigkeiten, curated by Linienscharen. In den Querungen, Württembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany.
2016 Light Ground. With Marc Sabat & the Plainsound Orchestra. Studio 8, Berlin, Germany
2016 in_visible limits. With the installation "May Aye?", curated by Raimund Menges. Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany
2016 SUNRISE SUNSET. Video installation and performance of "Light Ground" with Marc Sabat,
curated by Adela Yawitz & Catherine Wood. KW Institute for Contemporary Art- KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e.V., Berlin, Germany
2016 in_visible limits. With the room installation "noise, see". Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Germany
2015 Cycles IV: Água Rocha Rede. Quiet Cue, Berlin, Germany
2014 Drawing Show II: Connecting Dots. LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Connect the Dots. aquabitArtgallery, Berlin
2013 Kultur:Stadt. (with Parkhaus Projects) Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2013 Billo BÄM: New Ways to Sculpture. Curated by Adriane Wachholz and Hannes Woidich. Künstlerhaus Dortmund
2012 NEULAND: Aufbruch. Galerie Thron, Reutlingen
2012 Dis/Place, Person, Thing. Parkhaus Projects Berlin, Germany
2012 Blooming in the dark. Historisches Kellar, Berlin, Germany
2012 Circulation. Parkhaus Projects Berlin, Germany.
2012 Availabism. Superfluo Contemporary Arts Projects, Padua, Italy.
2011 The Space Between. Engels, Berlin, Germany
2011 This is what happens with that kind of thing. Historisches Kellar, Berlin, Germany
2010 ABSORB: Crossroads and Measuring Sticks. TAC Temporary Arts Centre, Eindhoven, Netherlands *see images
2010 pigment. With the installation "Thoughts of Dreams and Shadows." Ehemalige Markthalle des Zentralviehhofs, Berlin, Germany
2010 from the nipple to the bottle never satisfied. Nadania Idriss Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2010 ABSORB. Extrapool, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2009 Big Bang Beautiful. Parkhaus, Berlin, Germany
2009 Gründonnerstag. K-Salon, Berlin, Germany
2008 Von Jetzt bis Dann. Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2008 ARTFORUM. mit Goldrausch Art IT. Berlin, Germany
2008 aus gezeichnet_das Kraftfield der Linie//drawing all over_the power of line.
Curated by Dr. Otto Rothfuss and Margarete Rebmann. KISS (Kunst im Schloss Untergröningen), Germany
*see images
2008 Show Me the Way. La Condition Japonaise, Berlin, Germany
2007 Labyrinths. Botkyrka Konsthall, Sweden
2006 Rotterdam [inter]nationaal. KunstAmbassade, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006 Exota. Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006 L’affaire est dans le sac!/It’s in the Bag! Galerie Diagonale, Montreal, Canada
2006 Small Pieces. With Keiko Kimoto. Galerie von Döring, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
2005 The Landscape is Beautiful. Stichting Atelierbeheer Slak, Arnhem, Netherlands
2000 wHole. Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2022 Leveld Kunstnartun residency. Leveld, Norway
2022 Khimaira residency. With composer Ellen Arkbro. Stockholm, Sweden
2021 Sonderstipendium INITIAL der Akademie der Künste / Akademie der Künste’s INITIAL Special Grant
2020-21 Stiftung Kunstfonds, NEUSTART KULTUR, stipend for contemporary art
2018 Q-02 residency. With composer Marc Sabat. Brussels, Belgium
2015 Mute Gallery residency. Lissabon, Portugal
2010 INM curatorial grant for ZWIELICHT, with composer Marc Sabat
2009 INM curatorial grant for ZWIELICHT, with composer Marc Sabat
2008 goldrausch künstlerinnenprojekt art IT
2006 Duende Studios residency. Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006 Galerie MAI (Montreal Arts Interculturels), Montreal, Canada
2005 Duende Studios. Rotterdam, Netherlands
2005 Commission by SLAK Foundation for edition of etchings
2005 Stichting Atelierbeheer Slak residency. Arnhem, Netherlands
2001 Joseph Beuys Scholarship, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
2001 Canada Millenium Award of Excellence
PUBLICATIONS
"light lines" (artist book)
"AMBITUS: Kunst und Musik Heute / ART AND MUSIC TODAY", exhibition catalogue, 2019. Kunstmuseum kloster unser lieben frauen magdeburg LINK
"Knots", artist book, 2018
"Keeping Tides Tidal", artist book, 2018
"in_visible limits: Grenzgänge in Kunst und Gesellschaft", exhibition catalogue, modo verlag, 2017
"The Very Last Drop", artist book, 2010
"Eye Pulse Tone", artist book, 2009
"Looking Forwards, Backwards", artist book, ISBN 978-3-937476-91-9, 2008
"Aus gezeichnet: im Kraftfeld der Linie", Katalog, KISS 2008
"Subject: Yellows", artist pages, Tidskriften OEI, issue #31-32, 2007
 Arts Atlantic, artist’ pages, "Pink Arm lived and then Died", Winter issue 2004
"In this city", artist book, 2004
"Homesick tic(k)", artist book, 2003/2006
"Book of Certitudes", artist book, 2002
"Isolating Red", artist book, 2001

CURATORIAL
2012 Dis/place, Person, Thing. (September) Exhibition at Parkhaus Projects, Berlin
www.parkhausprojectsberlin.de
2012 Circulation. (April) Exhibition at Parkhaus Projects, Berlin
2011 My Own Private Leitkultur. (October) Exhibition at Parkhaus Projects, Berlin
2011 Keep Some Doubt for the Doubt. (June) Exhibition at Parkhaus Projects, Berlin
2011 The Way Things Move. (April) Exhibition at Parkhaus Projects, Berlin
2009-10  ZWIELICHT, monthly new music concert series together with composer Marc Sabat
 www.zwielicht-editions.org
 www.zwielicht-editions.org/zwielicht2009