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31/10/2025

So exciting to see Das Dritte Land — first realized in 2019 at the Berlin Kulturforum / Stiftung St. Matthäus — now growing in Erfurt as a public artwork, thanks to , the commitment of the City of Erfurt, and the private initiative of Lila Choi (Korean resident and artist in Erfurt). 💚

What I find most interesting: many read it through a gardening / landscape-design lens, but the work actually operates differently. It’s a heterotopian, geo-poetic landscape — an imagined Korean peninsula in exile that keeps evolving in Europe. 🌱

The text frames Das Dritte Land in a rather horticultural language, which doesn’t fully capture this heterotopian dimension — but that gap makes how an artwork can be perceived- It makes you want to go there and see how the work really operates.

Das Dritte Land shows that exile can take the form of a garden — mobile, cared for, and politically alive.

Artists: .han
Curator
Cooperation with .matthaeus Lila Choi

04/04/2025

Meanwhile in Erfurt – Das dritte Land ()
enters its third springtime in Petersburg, Erfurt, with new signage—blooming and blurring the border zones.

On this special day, as the impeachment of Yoon has been enacted,
we allow ourselves to silently hope—for a better world,
for a place where a new approach to North Korean politics might be dreamed.

Das Dritte Land, artists’ garden, 2022- , Erfurt, Petersberg
Artists: Han Seok Hyun, Kim Seung Hwoe
Artistic Director: Keumhwa Kim

27/09/2022

with .repost
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ERÖFFNUNG DES KOREANISCHEN KÜNSTLERGARTENS
"DAS DRITTE LAND"
3. Oktober 2022, 15 Uhr, Angermuseum Erfurt

, der Künstlergarten von Seok Hyun Han (.han) und Seung Hwoe Kim, Preisträger des Einheitspreises der 2019, ist auf Initiative der Kunstmuseen Erfurt und des vom Berliner Kulturforum auf den Erfurter (unterhalb der Martinsbastion) umgezogen.

Aus der Entfernung sieht der Garten wie eine Berglandschaft aus. Das Zusammenspiel des morgens und abends vom Boden aufsteigenden Nebels mit den aus Basalt geformten Bergen erinnert an die pittoreske Perspektive der koreanischen Landschaftsmalerei aus der Joseon-Zeit. Seit April 2022 wachsen hier 35 unterschiedlichen Arten von Wildpflanzen aus Nord- und Südkorea. Die Steine zitieren das Baekdudaegan-Gebirge, dessen Bergkette sich vom Norden in den Süden Koreas zieht. Dieses Gebirge verbindet das seit mehr als 60 Jahren geteilte Korea, seine Pflanzenwelt bildet eine Brücke, die auf einem gemeinsamen botanischen Erbe ruht.

Han Seok Hyun und Kim Seung Hwoe haben mit ihrem Künstlergarten eine dritte Natur geschaffen, in dem symbolisch die Macht der Natur über die schmerzhafte Gegenwart der politischen Teilung der koreanischen Halbinsel siegt.

Der ist öffentlich zugänglich ab dem 4. Oktober 2022.

VERNISSAGE
Grußworte //
Kwon Young Se, Minister des Wiedervereinigungsministeriums, Republik Korea
Dr. Tobias J. Knoblich, Beigeordneter für Kultur und Stadtentwicklung,
Prof. Dr. Kai Uwe Schierz, Direktor der Kunstmuseen Erfurt

Einführung //
Keumhwa Kim, Kuratorin des Kunstprojektes ()

Vorträge //
Prof. Em. Dr. Jeong-hee Lee Kalisch: Die Transformation der koreanischen Geografie und der wahren Landschaftsmalerei in dem Künstlergarten Das Dritte Land

Dr. Harald Marencic:(Stellvertretender Exekutivsekretär, Welterbe Wattenmeer) und
Dr. Sangkuk Kim: Wo Himmel und Erde sich eine Bühne teilen (Institut für Koreastudien Freie Universität Berlin)

Artist Talk //
und über die Pflanzen des Künstlergartens

Musik //
AsianArt Ensemble

08/04/2022

says goodbye to berlin

and we celebrate our reunion after nearly three years in Berlin.

When: April 13 at 7 pm
Where:
At Matthäikirchplatz, Kulturforum Berlin
Artists .han and are present.

Ongoing: not finished yet - an interdisciplinary improvisation
Melissa Minseong Seo - Korean traditional dance
Hyunjeong Park - Gayageum
Sungeun Jin - Handpan, Sound

On April 13 at 7 p.m., we will celebrate the third anniversary of the Artists' Garden in Berlin and its move to Erfurt together with the two artists Han Seok Hyun and Kim Seung Hwoe, and the plants that survived the last dry Berlin winter.

As part of the finissage, we present the catalog "Das Dritte Land - between Poetics and Politics". The publication documents the beginnings of this garden as well as its development in Berlin so far. In various texts, authors such as Hannes Langbein, Kim Jung-Hwa, and Prof. Dr. Jung-Hee Lee Kalisch examine Das Dritte Land from art-historical, transcultural, political, and aesthetic perspectives. The catalog was printed with the kind support of Korea Art Management and the Hans and Charlotte Krull Foundation.

The finissage will be accompanied by musical, performative improvisation by Melissa Minseong Seo (dance), Hyunjeong Park (gayageum), and Sungeun Jin (handpan, sound).

Das Dritte Land - Between Poetics and Politics with powerful contributions by Hannes Langbein, Kim Junghwa and Prof.Jung-Hee Lee Kalisch, beautiful documentation by .wilhelm , designed by .sam.kim on the day of the finissage. With a kind support by

We thank you all supporters of and hope to welcome you in Erfurt!

We thank you all supporters of and hope to welcome you in Erfurt!

11/12/2021

Today is the last day of the exhibition, Where the Movement Stays, great thanks to .astrid and and for this great cooperation! .berlin with
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𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮𝙨

3-7pm
until this Saturday

Astrid Busch & Ki Jun Kimastrid,

Curator

Location:
SOMA 300, Eylauer Str. 9, 10965 Berlin

The exhibition, Where the Movement Stays—first presented in Seoul and now opening in Berlin—is an interdisciplinary dialogue about mobility conducted between Korean architect Ki Jun Kim, this year's "Creator" of ZER01NE ( www.zer01ne.zone ), and Berlin-based artist Astrid Busch. The show presents a site specific installation, interviews and films in which the two creatives conceptually and visually explore urban mobility in the metropolises of Seoul and Berlin.

In the interplay of form, colour and light, as in the dialogue between the real image of the urban landscapes and their abstractions, an illuminating interdisciplinary and multimedia exploration about mobility in the cities of Seoul and Berlin unfolds.

The exhibition was realized through the kind support of ZER01NE.

astrid

berlinzone

Foto: 1.2 Ki Jun Kim 3.Astrid Busch

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04/12/2021

Keumhwa Kim]] with
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9 December, 10 a.m., "Das Dritte Land between Poetics and Politics".
Online lecture on the publication about the artists' garden "Das Dritte Land"
Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurter Kunstverein

Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/94171062437?pwd=eW5mdGNoM21qZkZSTWpDamJ0YU1OUT09

On 9 December 2021, at 10 a.m. (CET), a lecture event as a video conference (Zoom meeting) will take place in conjunction with the publication of "Das Dritte Land between Poetics and Politics". Organized by Kunsthalle Erfurt and Erfurter Kunstverein, the event and publication have been made possible in part with the kind support of the Korea Art Management Service and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea.

The catalogue "Das Dritte Land between Poetics and Politics" has been published to mark the two-year presence of the artists' garden "Das Dritte Land" by Korean artists Kim Seung Hwoe and Han Seok Hyun at Berlin’s Kulturforum, as well as the garden’s imminent move to the Petersberg in Erfurt on the initiative of the Kunsthalle Erfurt.

Lectures

The Aesthetic Transformation of Korean Geography and the „True-View“-Landscape in Das Dritte Land
Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch, East Asian Art History (ret.), Freie University of Berlin

Displacing Plants, Displaying Korea, From Terra Incognito to the Third Nature
Dr. Junghwa Kim, Landscape Historian, Postdoctoral fellow, 4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics, The Kunsthistorische Insti- tute in Florence – Max-Planck-Institute

Forest on the roadside – about a short trip to North Korea
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Mussong, Diploma Forester, University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde

Artist Talk, Panel discussion, Q&A
Han Seok Hyun & Kim Seung Hwoe .han

Moderated by Keumhwa Kim]]

This event is supported by the Korean Art Management Service.

Keumhwa Kim]]

Design .sam.kim

02/12/2021

Still testing…Where the Movement Stays… tomorrow on Friday at 6 pm at SOMA300 (Elyauer Str. 9) We welcome you! The entry to the opening is only possible with 2 G- Rule and mask

22/11/2021

Keumhwa Kim]] with
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Where the Movement Stays:

an exhibition by
Astrid Busch & Ki Jun Kim
Astrid Busch],

curated by
Keumhwa Kim]]
Keum Art Projects]

Opening: 3 December 2021, at 6 p.m.

Location: SOMA 300, Eylauer Str. 9, 10965 Berlin

The exhibition, Where the Movement Stays—first presented in Seoul and now opening in Berlin—is an interdisciplinary dialogue about mobility conducted between Korean architect Ki Jun Kim, this year's "Creator" of ZER01NE ( www.zer01ne.zone ), and Berlin-based artist Astrid Busch. The show presents a site specific installation, interviews and films in which the two creatives conceptually and visually explore urban mobility in the metropolises of Seoul and Berlin.

In the interplay of form, colour and light, as in the dialogue between the real image of the urban landscapes and their abstractions, an illuminating interdisciplinary and multimedia exploration about mobility in the cities of Seoul and Berlin unfolds.

The exhibition was realized through the kind support of ZER01NE.

Astrid Busch]
Keumhwa Kim]]
Keum Art Projects]
berlinzone

20/09/2021

with
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Das dritte Land at the forefront of the new exhibition at St.Matthäus-Church, Unfinished by , corresponding with his letterings Unfinished, Dys(u)topia, leads me to reflect Korean History and Now- between utopia and dystopia and our unfinished, still ongoing project

Fotos: Das dritte Land, , , 2019-2021

14/09/2021

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Thank you for this insightful and informative article about our program New Rituals of Healing with powerful contributions by .wilhelm - the article about the move of our garden by .han and Kim Seung Hwoe to Erfurt, the relationship between Nam June Paik and Joseph Beuys and new rituals for healing by young generation of artists!

With a kind support by .charlotte.krull.stiftung .matthaeus

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