Aram Lee

Aram Lee is a Netherlands-based artist whose research-driven practice reinterprets institutional materials, reshaping their roles through performance, film, and video installations. Often involving performative actions with the public, her work redefines how objects are described and circulated. By challenging diasporic amnesia, Lee releases spectral and fictional narratives embedded within institutions, dissolving cultural predominance and envisioning new structures.

Recently, she has been developing a project on the toxic materiality of ethno-colonial museums in Europe. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Goethe Institute Marseille, and Pressing Matter at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. Her works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Wereldmuseum Amsterdam Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin and Ifan-Museum Dakar.

Aram’s work A dissonance of landscapes (2019) was shown at Framer Framed as part of the group exhibition Elsewheres Within Here (2019), curated by Jo-Lene Ong.

Aram Lee’s video installation To Pluto and Back (2019) was on display as part of Unlocked/Reconnected at Framer Framed (2 June – 16 Aug 2020).