Lee Ufan is featured in a group exhibition titled The Challenging Souls: Yves Klein, Lee Ufan, Ding Yi, together with the French Nouveau Réalist and avant-garde painter Yves Klein and the Chinese abstract painter Ding Yi, on view through July 28, 2019, at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, China. 

This is the first time the works of Yves Klein and Lee Ufan are shown in China under a common artistic umbrella with their Chinese colleague Ding Yi. These three seminal artists were pioneers who facilitated the public's further understanding of the avant-garde movement by introducing unique materials, colors, and performance elements into the non-popular, elitist, and metaphysical contexts of the avant-garde. Furthermore, the artists’ origins from different cultures, times, and locations opened new horizons for the comparative study of avant-garde art between the west and the east. Their works challenge us to reassess our relationship to art, society, and the public in the global and cross-cultural context we live in.

The Challenging Souls: Yves Klein, Lee Ufan, Ding Yi is therefore also a research project which examines the trajectory of the experimental art movement, comparing the visual languages of three artists who have prevailed social changes and upheavals since the 1960s. In doing so, one also has to discount the rise of the contemporary art market and its implications on values and artistic power.