Anne Duk Hee Jordan

Last updated

Anne Duk Hee Jordan is a Korean-German artist, born in Korea in 1978. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany. [1]

Contents

Early life and education

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]

Career

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] She is professor at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. [4]

Major works

Solo exhibitions

Awards

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. [6] 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. [20] 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.

Press and publications

Anne Duk Hee Jordan was featured in Sculpture magazine (July/August 2019 issue), [5] and was interviewed in Collectors Agenda by Chrischa Oswald. [2] Her work was reviewed by Alison Hugill for Berlin Art Link. [21] Her work was mentioned in Artforum, as part of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art. [22]

She contributed to Olafur Eliasson's Take Your Time 5 kitchen book (2013) and The Kitchen (2016). [23]

Related Research Articles

Thomas Zipp is an artist based in Berlin.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Valérie Favre</span>

Valérie Favre is a Berlin-based artist. Since 2006 she is Professor of painting at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.

Klaus Peter Brehmer, was a German painter, graphic artist and filmmaker. From 1971 to 1997 he was professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.

Bo Christian Larsson is a Swedish artist who works mostly with large-sized drawings, installations, performances and objects.

Thea Djordjadze is a contemporary German-Georgian artist based in Berlin, Germany. She is best known for sculpture and installation art, but also works in a variety of other media.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Miriam Cahn</span> Swiss painter

Miriam Cahn is a Swiss painter.

Karin Sander is a German conceptual artist. She lives and works in Berlin and Zurich.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Galerie Buchholz</span> Art gallery

Galerie Buchholz is an art gallery specializing in international contemporary art with exhibition spaces in Cologne, Berlin and New York City. The gallery was founded in Cologne in 1986 by Daniel Buchholz, and today is run jointly with Christopher Müller.

Pola Sieverding is a German photographer and video artist. She works in the field of lens based media.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paula Doepfner</span> German artist

Paula Doepfner

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matvey Slavin</span> German artist

Matvey Slavin, also known as MatWay born on 19 April 1987 in Leningrad is a German-Danish artist. He lives and works in Copenhagen. He is a member of the artist duo Enfants Terribles and founder of Popdada and Neograttage.

Loretta Fahrenholz (1981) is a contemporary artist working in experimental film and photography. She is based in Berlin, Germany.

Anne Imhof is a German visual artist, choreographer, and performance artist who lives and works between Frankfurt and Paris. She is best known for her endurance art, although she cites painting as central to her practice.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kerstin Kartscher</span> German artist (born 1966)

Kerstin Kartscher is a German artist who lives and works in London. Her central medium is drawing. Often her works evolve out of combining finely detailed drawings with found objects, or man made materials, that can be merged in installations. Kartscher creates drawings and installations of imaginary worlds populated by nameless heroines who celebrate their femininity, liberated from social, emotional and psychological constraints, within fantastical, elegant and immense landscapes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wiebke Siem</span> German mixed media artist

Wiebke Siem is a German mixed media artist of German and Polish heritage, winner of the prestigious Goslarer Kaiserring in 2014 as "one of the most innovative and original artists who has never compromised in their art and whose sculptures have a tremendous aura and presence because they mix the familiar and the unfamiliar, the known and the unknown".

Rosa Lachenmeier is a Swiss painter and photographer whose work has been widely exhibited. She lives and works in Birsfelden near Basel.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Doris Ziegler</span> German painter (born 1949)

Doris Ziegler is a German painter whose work responded to and engaged with the Wende and the peaceful revolution in the GDR during the late 1980s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bettina von Arnim (artist)</span> German painter

Bettina von Arnim is a German-born new realist painter, illustrator and graphic artist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Egan Frantz</span> American artist

Egan Frantz is an American artist. He is known for producing large-scale, abstract paintings wherein passages of vivid color stand out sharply against measured visual fields.

Ines Doujak is an Austrian artist. Doujak graduated from Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Vienna. She had her first solo exhibition in 2002 at the Vienna Secession in 2002. as part of which she took part in the Rainbow Parade of that year, the Viennese counterpart to the Christopher Street Day, for which she designed a float. Since then has exhibited worldwide ever since working with a variety of media: collage, sculpture, photography, film, audio and installation.

References

  1. ArtFacts. "Anne Duk Hee Jordan | Artist". ArtFacts. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 ""Through transformation I make the non-visible visible."". collectorsagenda.com. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  3. "ANNE DUK HEE JORDAN [about] | balzer projects" . Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  4. "Prof". www.hfg-karlsruhe.de. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
  5. 1 2 3 Beckenstein, Joyce (August 2, 2019). "Anne Duk Hee Jordan: Changes". Sculpture. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  6. 1 2 Residency. "Anne Duk Hee Jordan – Flux Factory" . Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  7. "Lost Princess of Mongolia". holgermarquardt.com. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  8. "Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Ziggy and the Starfish – LOOP Discover" (in European Spanish). Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  9. 1 2 3 "Anne Duk Hee Jordan – Biography". Berliner Festspiele. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  10. "Kunstverein Arnsberg: Anne Duk Hee Jordan Ziggy goes wild". kunstverein-arnsberg.de. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  11. "Galerie Wedding". galeriewedding.de. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  12. Kelting, Lily (July 1, 2017). "Food for thought: Berlin Food Art Week". EXBERLINER.com. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  13. "Anne Duk Hee Jordan: Entanglement Of The Little Things | My Art Guides". My Art Guides | Your Compass in the Art World. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  14. "Sonntag". sonntagberlin.tumblr.com. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  15. "NON Berlin | Far From Any Road | NON Berlin" . Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  16. "OF Bodies Chang'd to Various Forms, I Sing… (2014) – Publications – Pauline Doutreluingne". paulinedoutreluingne.com. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  17. "Home / Museum Angewandt Kunst". museumangewandtekunst.de. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  18. ArtFacts. "IF hope exists ... there is no wasted land | Exhibition". ArtFacts. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  19. "ANNE DUK HEE JORDAN [cv] | balzer projects" . Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  20. "ANNE DUK HEE JORDAN [cv] | balzer projects" . Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  21. "ANNE DUK HEE JORDAN". Berlin Art Link. June 1, 2015. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  22. "Himali Singh Soin on Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art". Artforum. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  23. "Participants". Institut für Raumexperimente. Retrieved March 14, 2020.