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HAN Seok Hyun majored in art at Hongik University and received his MFA from Korea National University of Arts. He is a prolific artist whose works have been featured at numerous exhibitions, including solo exhibitions Pumpkins in Berlin, A.D.2016 (2017), Origins (2016), and Fluorescent Green (2015), as well as the Karachi Biennale (2017) and Quality Control (2016). In March 2016, Seok Hyun participated in the Megacities Asia exhibition at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, and in 2016 and 2017, completed a residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, designated by Arts Council Korea as the most prestigious international artist-in-residence program in Berlin. Today, Seok Hyun is based in both Berlin and Seoul.

Recently, Seok Hyun has been exploring his interests in contemporary art, artificial environments, and plant factories, examining what happens to living organisms in the process of “standardization” through research on the wide-ranging methods developed throughout human history for growing plants – both for consumption as food and for landscaping – and the ISO (International Organization for Standardization), which sets international standards for objects and goods.

In June 2018, Seok Hyun installed an artificial garden in Idaho as part of a project called “Reverse-Rebirth,” and in September of the same year, in Kanazawa, Japan, installed another such work for the “Alterling Home” exhibit organized by the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2019, Seok Hyun showcased “Das Dritte Land,” a garden installation work, in collaboration with Berlin Botanische Garten.

(Seok Hyun’s work “Reverse-Rebirth Project: Antlers,” installed in Scotland in 2015 with support from Glenfiddich Whiskey, tracks how the installation and surrounding plant life become entangled and change over the course of 100 years.)

He is also a participating artist for the 2020 Gangwon kids Triennale.