Bio

Han Le Han is an artist and researcher based in Berlin.

She studied fashion design, she holds a master’s degree in East Asian art history and has trained in ikebana, the Japanese art of floral arrangement. Her projects focus on aspects of botanical culture, and seek to explore and convey the existential value of flowers and other plants both within the arts and in a broader sociocultural context. By translating her ikebana practice into installation and scenographic formats, Han has presented works at Theater Neumarkt and Gessnerallee in Zurich, Arsenic Lausanne, Bühnen Bern, Theater Freiburg, as well as at the Maxim Gorki Theater and the Pop-Kultur Festival in Berlin.

In addition to her artistic practice, she has worked as a researcher and writer for numerous artistic and cultural institutions, including the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in Berlin, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, and LEAP magazine in Beijing.

Project

Elegy I

During her stay at Faber Andorra, Han Le Han will create installations using materials found in the surroundings of the residency, inspired by poems by the Andorran writer Teresa Colom. Drawing on Colom’s texts and taking advantage of the accessibility of the natural environment in La Massana, the artist aims to explore the potential of ikebana as a practice capable of engaging in dialogue with a specific space and environment. The project, provisionally titled “Elegy I”—in reference to one of Colom’s poems that incorporates a floral motif—aims to develop into an exhibition and to assert the relevance of ikebana within contemporary art.