Han Seok Hyun

Born in 1975 in Seoul (South Korea)
Lives and works between Seoul and Berlin (Germany)

Han Seok Hyun received his MFA from Korea National University of Arts. His work has been exhibited in museums around the world, including The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); Buk Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul); Total Museum of Art (Seoul); Pohang Museum of Art (Pohang); The Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (Gyunggido); the Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul) and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin).

In the installation Super-Natural, on view at KB17, Han creates an undulating landscape of mass-produced green products that he has sourced locally. He writes: “It is, of course, no coincidence that so many companies use the color green to package allegedly healthy goods; marketers associate it with harmony and peace, growth, luck, and energy. The title Super-Natural, a nod to the supermarkets in which these products are sold and to the elevated properties they are claimed to possess, reminds us that these products may be greener in color than in substance. Green hues are often used to make unhealthy products seem more acceptable to impressionable shoppers, and words like natural and healthy have little or no correlation to a product’s contents or to the practices used to produce them.”