Yujin Lee is a visual artist, writer/translator, curator, and caretaker of a farmhouse and its more-than-human companions. After living in Berlin and New York she returned to her home country of South Korea and settled in a rural village on Jeju Island. Located in walking distance from the Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, the farmhouse is both where Yujin lives and where she hosts an alternative-style international artist residency called Next Door to the Museum. The house came with a patch of land (wooyeongpat) and a tangerine storage barn, which is now a multipurpose project space that functions as an art studio, printshop, kitchen, exhibition or gathering space.
Wooyeongpat is now a regenerative garden with a DIY composting system, greenhouse, and chicken coop. Living in an era of overdevelopment, hyper-consumerism, and climate crisis, Yujin is interested in creative practices of fellow artists and communities living and working in rural environments. Life in “the rural” is an important context for alternative ways to think, work, build relationships, and create art. Using “the rural” as a cornerstone, Yujin is in the process of connecting with similar practices that align with her practice on the island.
Visit Yujin Lee’s website here
28 January – 25 February 2026
Practice: Critical Writing / Curatorial / Drawing / Film & Video / Performance / Print Making / Socially Engaged Practice / Visual Arts
Research Focus
Martinican poet and thinker Édouard Glissant begins his 1969 poem with a simple yet profound statement: “Teach, in other words: learn with.” He continues, “To live the landscape with passion. To bring it out of the indistinct, to search it, to light it up among ourselves. To know what it means within ourselves. To take to the earth this clear knowledge.” Since settling down on Jeju Island, Yujin has moved towards a way of life where self (creation) and the landscape (everyday life) are inseparable. While on residency she aims to critically examine, compare, and contrast the social art practices and cultural policies of both contexts, explore the impact and value of international exchange, and reflect on the future of alternative art spaces and land-based, non-white cube practices.
More about the Dwell Here Residency
Dwell Here offers participants a simple proposition: to commit to this time and place while thinking deeply about its urgencies. Together we are curious to learn what can be activated or challenged through the process of dwelling. IMMA encourages reflection across the following themes to consider geographical, historical, political and cultural concepts of Ireland as a starting point to expand and connect international contexts through similarities and differences:
Technologies of Peace – to consider commemorative landscapes and memories of peace (as a dream, movement, or value) while generating perspectives on sustainable coexistence.
The Irish Paradigm – Welcomes artistic research that creates intimacy and connections, while celebrating the perceived agility and freedoms of operating on the periphery. As a small island on the edge of Europe, Ireland often has a challenging relationship with ‘the centre’.
The Museum as a Site of Vibration – consider how the museum and site can create new vibrations and rhythms within the built legacy of empire. How can museums make visible cultural shifts, including erased, censored or marginalised histories, as well as sustainability, planetary care, sharing and hospitality.