Press Release
KunstHausWien is delighted to announce Anne Duk Hee Jordan. The End Is Where We Start From, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Austria, which will be on view from September 11, 2024–January 26, 2025.
Curator: Barbara Horvath
International ongoing exhibitions
Anne Duk Hee Jordan
Kunst Haus Wien (Austria)
11.09.2024 - 26.01.2025
B“What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.”
These lines by T. S. Eliot from Little Gidding, the final poem, published in London in 1942, of the Four Quartets series, are the inspiration for the eponymous title of Anne Duk Hee Jordan’s exhibition in Vienna. The End Is Where We Start From delineates a cyclical movement that is inscribed in the exhibition space both thematically and physically. “We are deeply connected with everything around us,” emphasizes the artist, “and to understand ecology we must think in continuous cycles.”
Developed specifically for the KunstHausWien, the multisensory exhibition presents two worlds on two levels: starting from the Archean Eon, when the first life arose on the Earth thanks to an oxygen-
Anne Duk Hee Jordan intentionally interleaves scientific knowledge with poetic imagination, links organic nature with Romantic visions of technology, merges the human with the nonhuman, and in this way creates an artistic universe imbued with a profound sensibility for ecological and social issues. In multimedia works set under and above water, nature is never just a “feel-
Anne Duk Hee Jordan’s pluralistic way of seeing and inherently collective spirit forge vital paths for establishing relationships with nature and time, with ourselves and others. These paths are a welcome encouragement for all those who feel powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
As the first Green Museum in Austria, Kunst Haus Wien follows the vision of its founder Friedensreich Hundertwasser and explores the relationship between humans, art, and ecology. Anne Duk Hee Jordan’s exhibition takes a new approach and emphasizes the confrontation with a “different environment” as a sensual experience.
Biography
Anne Duk Hee Jordan, born in 1978 in Korea, lives and works in Berlin. The artist studied at the Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin, and subsequently completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin. Anne Duk Hee Jordan is a professor of digital media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Germany.
Exhibition 11 September 2024 -
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Anne Duk Hee Jordan, 2024. Photo: Clara Runge
