Lee Ufan Arles

l’art en plus has been advising Lee Ufan Arles since 2022.

Lee Ufan Arles opened its doors to the public in 2022, after four years of renovating the Hôtel Duport-Vernon, a historic building in the center of Arles. Lee Ufan, who lives in France for part of the year, imagined it, with his partner architect Tadao Ando, as “a living place, a place to live, a place to share”. The third major venue for the presentation of his work, after the Lee Ufan Museum in Naoshima which opened in 2010 and the Espace Lee Ufan at the Busan Museum of Art which opened in 2015, Lee Ufan Arles presents over 1,000 m2 of Lee Ufan’s work, as well as temporary exhibitions and cultural programming that resonate and engage in dialogue with the artist’s universe.

In 2023, Lee Ufan Arles and Maison Guerlain launched the Art & Environment Prize, an annual award for a project that focuses on the fruitful and multi-faceted relationship between artistic creation and the environment.

l’art en plus has been working with Lee Ufan Arles since 2022, orchestrating the global communications aimed at the media, the artistic community and the public, in order to establish this unique venue as a lasting part of the cultural landscape in Arles, France and abroad. To promote Lee Ufan’s work and vision, the agency regularly collaborates on communication campaigns for the artist’s major exhibitions in Europe, such as the retrospective curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin in 2023, or the artist’s participation in the inaugural group show at the Palazzo Diedo during the Venice Biennale in 2024.