LEE KIT TO REPRESENT HONG KONG AT 2013 VENICE BIENNALE

Lee Kit will represent Hong Kong at the 2013 Venice Biennale. The thirty-four-year-old artist began his career as a painter but has gained prominence over the past several years for his soft, often pastel-colored conceptual sculptures and installations, which include household objects like Nivea body lotion, Vaseline, and Johnson & Johnson cream as a way to reference rituals that constitute daily life. Of Lee’s artistic practice, executive director of M+ and curator of the Hong Kong pavilion Lars Nittve said: “Kit is to me one of the leading artists in Hong Kong’s thriving contemporary art scene. I have during my years here been repeatedly touched by how Kit so seemingly effortlessly manages to mix a deep understanding of contemporary art with something very personal and intimate.”