Anne Duk Hee Jordan is a Korean-German artist, born in Korea in 1978. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany. [1]
Anne Duk Hee Jordan is a Korean-German artist, born in Korea in 1978. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany. [1]
Anne Duk Hee Jordan, an orphan from Korea, was adopted by a German couple at the age of four, and grew up in a small village in West Germany. She was trained as a Rescue Diver, deep sea diver, and free diver. She was also trained as an occupational therapist, specializing in Kinaesthetics. She started her art education at 27, when she enrolled at the Berlin Weissensee. Disappointed by the program after several of her professors left the school, she joined Olafur Eliason’s Institute for Spatial Experience in 2012 as a master student. [2]
Anne Duk Hee Jordan's background shaped her interests in art, science, and philosophy. Her work often speaks of issues of migration, identity, and social spaces, using natural or biological processes as metaphors. Her installations are meticulously researched, and she often uses humor to get her point across. She uses both living and dead materials, at times constructing machines that can mirror organisms, and creates a dialogue between art and science, her identity and social systems. [3]
Anne Duk Hee Jordan received first place in 2005 for her poetry in the Brentano Literature Contest. Her work was compiled in the Bibliothek Deutschsprachiger Gedichte in 2008 and 2012. In 2011, she received a science and art grant from Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. [5] She was an artist in residence at Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan in 2008, at the Flux Factory in New York City in 2012–13, and at "Agency of Living Organism“ in Tabakalera, Spain in 2016. In 2018, her work was included in the Riga International Biennal in Latvia, and the Beaufort Triennale in Ostend, Belgium. [19] She was nominated for the Hector award in 2019 and is in 2020 nominated for the Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen.The “Prize of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen" is among the leading and highest awards in the field of contemporary art in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Anne Duk Hee Jordan was featured in Sculpture magazine (July/August 2019 issue), [4] and was interviewed in Collectors Agenda by Chrischa Oswald. [2] Her work was reviewed by Alison Hugill for Berlin Art Link. [20] Her work was mentioned in Artforum, as part of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art. [21]
She contributed to Olafur Eliasson's Take Your Time 5 kitchen book (2013) and The Kitchen (2016). [22]
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