South London Gallery will present Weeds of Cultivation, the first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom by Seoul-born artist Kang Seung Lee, from 11 December 2026 to 28 March 2027. The show will occupy both the Main Gallery and the Fire Station Galleries on Peckham Road, and is curated by the 2026 cohort of the gallery's New Curators fellows.

For the exhibition, Lee will present a major site-responsive installation alongside new drawings and embroideries. His practice moves between drawing, embroidery, assemblage, installation and video, marked by a precise, poetic attention to memory and history, and to the lives of the artists and activists who came before him. The new works continue his long-running inquiry into care, loss and queer lineage.

Born in Seoul in 1978 and based between Seoul and Los Angeles, Lee has built a following for works that treat the ageing queer body as a living archive, using materials such as goatskin parchment, mother-of-pearl buttons, gold thread and dried seeds. His recent presentations include the Singapore Biennale 2025, a solo show at the Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo in 2024, a 2023 exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, and a 2025 show alongside Candice Lin at Gallery Hyundai in Seoul.

The exhibition is curated by the third cohort of New Curators, the gallery's paid year-long training programme for aspiring curators from structurally disadvantaged and lower socio-economic backgrounds. Weeds of Cultivation was announced by the gallery on 10 November, with admission free throughout its run.