AKI LEE 

Graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Aki received her master degree of Social Design in 2018. During the past years, she has initiated and curated projects dealing with urban regeneration, social engagement and knowledge transformation: Game of Collective Suffering (Times Museum Guangzhou 2020), Jiezhuan Lane Lab.(Guangzhou, 2019), Nanshan Art Festival-Design Weekend at Value Factory (Shenzhen, 2019), Unlayering Centers-Platz Für Originale (Floridsdorf, Vienna 2018), You Xin - Secondhand Book Storm (Shenzhen, 2018), Meine Favoriten, Deine Favoriten (Vienna, 2017) and so on. Among this, she has been teaching and giving lectures in schools. 

[Projects, Researches, Residency]

• 2023 'Navigating the Water' Immersive GameTheater, on going 
• 2023 'Lianjiang Herbalist',on going
• 2023 'Sauerknautsch, Speise des Wasserwegs',CN+AT
• 2022 'Kleines Glückdas Brettspiel Haus',Commissioned work by YAV,CN
  
• 2021-2022 'City/Village – Longgang Six Villages Practice', initiated by District City Administration and Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau of Shenzhen, CN
• 2020 'Game of Collective Suffering', Commissioned by Times Museum, CN
  
• 2020 'Radical Transparency'-Art Residency in JALAN BESAR SALON, SG
• 2019 'Nanshan Art and Design Week at Value Factory' Shenzhen, CN
  
• 2019 'Jiezhuan Lane Lab', Guangzhou, CN
• 2018 ‘Unlayering Centers -Platz für Originale’ Floridsdorf Vienna, AT
  
• 2017 ‘You Xin - Secondhand Book Storm’, Shenzhen, CN
• 2017 ‘Meine Favoriten, Deine Favoriten’ Favoriten Vienna, AT
  
• 2016 ‘Toilet Paper: Let’s break the ice’, Vienna, AT 

[Workshops & Activities]

• 2023 'Mai Ling Soup Bath', WIEN WOCHE Closing Performance at Brunnenpassage, AT
  
• 2023 'Shui-Lu Cai, Gemeinsam zu Tisch', Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz, AT
• 2020 'Salon, Public Sphere and Rococo', Meissen Salon Talks (Shenzhen), CN
  
• 2019 ‘Being a Cementer’-Banyan Commune, Times Museum Guangzhou, CN
  
• 2019  'Collective Suffering and the Rolling Octopus', alumni talk, Social Design 
• 2018  ‘Stadt-Praxis Knotenpunkt Nachbarschaft’ Ur(9)anize Festival, AT
  
• 2018  ‘Unlayering Centers -Platz für Originale’, DRG  21er Wien, AT
  
• 2017 ‘You Xin - Secondhand Book Storm workshop’, Shenzhen MinDe High school
  
• 2017 ‘Open Your Space - Siping Festival’, Yangpu High school and Tongji University
  
• 2017 ‘China A1-B2’, workshop series Social Design Dept. Wien, AT
  
• 2017 ‘Lost and Fond - Nordbahnhof Freimitte’, Social Design Dept., AT
  
• 2017  ‘Meine Favoriten, Deine Favoriten - neighbourhood brunch’, Brot Fabrik Wien
• 2014  ‘Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanism for Expanding Megacities’, MAK Wien, AT
  
• 2013  ‘UABB 2013-2014’, Value Factory Academy workshop series, Shenzhen, CN
  

[Publications, Academics]

• 2023 Guest Lecturer, MA social practice, Baptist University HK CN
  
• 2023 Guest Critic for Master presentation, Social Design
• 2020 'Critical Spatial Practice in China' co-curated conference, Social Design Dpt., University of Applied Arts Vienna, AT
  
• 2018 Published Article: Socially-engaged Public Art in Urban Redevelopments, PublicArt Magazine issue 54, CN
• 2017 ‘International Public Art Study Workshop – Dashilar’, launched by Public ArtCooperation Centre (PACC) of Shanghai University Academy of Fine Arts and Public ArtMagazine. Beijing and Shanghai, CN 
• 2014 ‘Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanism for Expanding Megacities’ MoMA PS1, USA 

[Solo Exhibition] 

•  ‘Apps- AKI LEE Solo Exhibition'; S.I.T  Shenzhen 2014, Guangzhou 2013, CN
  

[Selected Group Exhibition]

• 2023 'Not Your Ornament' with all Mai Lings, Secession, AT
  
• 2023 'What is essential is invisible to the eye', Alte Schieberkammer, AT
• 2020 'Study of Things', Game of Collective Suffering, Times Museum, CN
• 2015 ‘Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanism for Expanding Megacities’, NY MoMA PS1