Eunhee Lee wins the Han Nefkens Foundation – Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Grant 2023

Eunhee Lee (b. 1990, South Korea) has been awarded the Fundació Han Nefkens – LOOP Barcelona 2023 Video Art Production Grant, presented in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Miró. This distinctive grant, inaugurated in 2018, is designed to support the development of contemporary video art, with a special focus on artists from Asia or currently residing in the region.

The $15,000 grant is earmarked to facilitate the creation of a new video project, providing a timeline of nine months for its realization. Upon completion, the artwork will be loaned long-term to The Han Nefkens Foundation for exhibition at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, before embarking on a journey to be showcased at MoCA Taipei, ILHAM in Kuala Lumpur, Art Hub Copenhagen, and Inside Out Art Museum in Beijing.

Eunhee Lee stated: “For the past several years, I started making works with a certain anger and an eagerness to unravel the absurdity of our world. However, in the process of making, affinity and empathy for things around me have grown more and more than anger. The voices of people I met, the stories of places I visited, the materiality I sensed are all accumulated as many layers in the works that cannot easily be led to one conclusion. And I began to really enjoy these moments of self-breaking and learning, as well as sharing this experience with the audience. I look very forward to continuing this practice and producing the next film project with the support of the Han Nefkens foundation. It is truly an honour to be recognised and understood by the jury. Thank you very much.”

For this year’s edition’, the jury members have stated, ‘for the precision and care with which she observes and analyses our contemporary world and the coexistence of humanity within an ever-increasing digital world. We commend the poetic approach of the work that mindfully analyses the complexity of the recognisable relationship between man and machine. We look forward to further exchanges with the artist, and the future of the project.’

The Jury for the 2023 edition of the grant was chaired by Han Nefkens and consisted of Emilio Alvarez, Founder Loop Barcelona; Marko Daniel, Director Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Carol Yinghua Lu, Director Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing; Jacob Fabricius, Director, Art Hub Copenhagen; Rahel Joseph, Director, ILHAM, Kuala Lumpur; and Michael Wu, Michael Wu, Head of Exhibition Department, MoCA Taipei.