Das Dritte Land zwischen Poetik und Politik
09.12. 2021, 10:00 a.m. (Zoom Meeting)
Kunsthalle Erfurt and Erfurter Kunstverein
Supported by the Korea Art Management Service and the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of the Republic of Korea
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch, Dr. Jung-Hwa Kim, Prof. Dr. Michael Mussong, Uwe Schierz
Moderator: Keumhwa Kim
On the occasion of the two-year presence of the artist garden "The Third Land" by Korean artists Kim Seung Hwoe and Han Seok Hyun at the Berlin Kulturforum, and its forthcoming relocation to Petersberg in Erfurt initiated by Kunsthalle Erfurt, the catalogue "Das Dritte Land zwischen Poetik and Polititik" will be published.
The online event will feature three lectures:
Prof. Dr. Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch
(Art Historian, Emerita Professor of East Asian Art History, Freie Universität Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Lee-Kalisch will discuss how the artist garden "The Third Land" reinterprets and revitalizes Korean geography and art history through the lens of "true-view" landscape painting and the cosmological concept of "bones and veins" in Korean garden aesthetics.Dr. Jung-Hwa Kim
(Landscape Historian, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Art History in Florence - Max Planck Institute)
Dr. Kim will explore the shifting meanings of transnational plant transfers between Germany and Korea in the 19th century and today, using examples from the Botanical Garden, the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, and "The Third Land."Prof. Dr. Michael Mussong
(Professor of Forestry, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development)
Prof. Dr. Mussong will share insights from his recent research trip to North Korea, focusing on the North Koreans' relationship with nature and ecology.
The event will conclude with a discussion featuring the two artists and an audience from Germany and Korea. The discussion will address the garden's upcoming opening in Erfurt, where the German Unity Day celebrations will be held in 2022. Topics will include what "The Third Land" can reveal about political and social developments in Germany and Korea as a public artwork, and how the garden can continue to evolve as a processual art piece in Erfurt, serving as a space open to other art forms and debates.
This publication documents the creation and evolution of this garden, which, as a work of art, explores the historical dynamics of overcoming borders. It also highlights its development in Berlin. Various texts by scholars offer insights into "Das Dritte Land" from art-historical, transcultural, political, and aesthetic perspectives. Although the garden's appearance changes with the seasons, it remains a forum for encounters and a sanctuary in the city center as a public artwork.