Ecological Transience and Fantastical Transformation

An Artist Talk with Anne Duk Hee Jordan

Ecological Transience and Fantastical Transformation: An Artist Talk with Anne Duk Hee Jordan
In conversation with Haeju Kim
12:30 pm
An artist, filmmaker, and professor, Anne Duk Hee Jordan merges ecological research with technological experimentation to reimagine relations between humans, nonhumans, and machines. Immersive installations and sculptural environments—spanning deep-sea ecosystems, urban ecologies, and possible futures—engage with contemporary dialogues on speculative ecologies, queer embodiment, and environmental transformation. For the artist, worldbuilding is a form of narration; it is used to create meta-narratives in which scientific inquiry, myth, and technology entangle to generate new imaginaries of coexistence. In this conversation, Jordan joins curator Haeju Kim to discuss the roles of ecology, speculation, transformation, and technology in the artist’s practice and new solo exhibition at alexander levy. 

Korean-born, Berlin-based artist Anne Duk Hee Jordan (b. 1978) uses sculpture, film, technology, installation, and other narrative environments to explore cycles of transformation, ecological entanglements, and impermanence. Jordan studied at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and at the Institut für Raumexperimente with Olafur Eliasson at the Berlin University of the Arts. The artist has held a Professorship in Digitale Medien at HfG Karlsruhe and is now Professor for Environmental Intervention at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. Jordan has had solo exhibitions at Canal Projects, New York; Barbican Centre, London; Bass Museum, Miami; and Kunsthaus Wien. Jordan’s work has been included in group exhibitions at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; Trondheim Kunstmuseum; Gwangju Biennale; ACC Korea; and NYU Shanghai.Haeju Kim is a South Korean curator and writer currently based in Singapore. She is Senior Curator and Head of Residencies at the Singapore Art Museum. She has curated numerous contemporary art exhibitions and performance programs, with a particular emphasis on the body, time, archives, and memory. Her work also engages with ecological perspectives, locality, and their transnational and planetary connections. Most recently, she participated as a guest curator for “Roppongi Crossing 2025” at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and co-curated the Asia Art Biennial 2024 in Taiwan. She was the curator of the Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and served as Artistic Director of the Busan Biennale in 2022. She was previously Deputy Director at the Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2017–2021).

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Next date:

• Date Sunday, 03/May/2026 12:30 bis 13:30
• Venue Neue Nationalgalerie
• Address Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten