Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Photo: Courtesy the artist and alexander levy, Berlin, Photo: Ricard Estay
Anne Duk Hee, JordanZiggy and the Starfish (film still), 2016, Photo: Courtesy the artist and alexander levy, Berlin
Media artist and HfG professor Anne Duk Hee Jordan (born 1978 in Korea) is known for her speculative, often humorous installations and machines in which technology, biology and philosophy meet in unexpected ways. In her artistic practice, she deals with ecological, social and existential questions - often in the context of transformation, transience and the permeability between natural and artificial systems. Jordan studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and now works internationally at the intersection of art, science and activism. Since 2023, she has been Professor of Media Art at the HfG Karlsruhe, where she teaches an experimental approach to artistic research. Both her teaching and her work focus on process-oriented thinking - characterized by a deep interest in interconnectedness, circularity and the diverse relationships between humans, nature and technology.
Anne Duk Hee Jordan is currently represented in several important international exhibitions. At “everything, entangled, all at once” at Galerie max goelitz in Munich (May 9 - July 5, 2025), a cooperation with Galerie alexander levy, she is showing works together with Julius von Bismarck and Haroon Mirza that address the interweaving of humans, nature and technology. Jordan's works examine the transformation of matter and open up sensory spaces of experience for ecological, philosophical and social issues. Her video installation Ziggy and the Starfish (2016-2024), for example, explores the sexuality of marine life in the context of climate change and focuses on our embedded existence in complex ecological networks.
Parallel to this, her work can be seen in the following exhibitions, among others:
Touch Nature. Art and Ecology, Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria - until May 18, 2025
becoming other, Villa Arson, Nice, France (in cooperation with TBA21 & Tara Océan) - May 8 to August 24, 2025
UP Projects - A La Ronde, Exmouth, UK - opening on June 5, 2025
The river is me, Tatort Paderborn - July 28 to October 5, 2025
Manifesto of Spring, National Asian Culture Center in cooperation with ZKM & M+, Gwangju, South Korea - September 5, 2025 to February 22, 2026
UP Projects - Haigh Hall Wigan, Greater Manchester, UK - opening on September 13, 2025
With her international presence and artistic depth, Anne Duk Hee Jordan not only enriches the exhibition program of important houses, but also the teaching and discourse at the HfG Karlsruhe.
