Jinran Ha is a Berlin-based artist and interface designer working across installation, video, and performance. Her practice traces the presences of migrant women and shamanistic figures at the margins of official history — attending to how they persist or disappear within contemporary systems of representation. Through archival research, embodied ritual, and long-term community collaboration, she develops methodologies rooted in opacity and collective memory. A parallel strand examines algorithmic bias in AI image generation as a form of structural, colonial erasure. Her work proposes new artistic interfaces at the intersection of technology, mythology, and marginalised bodies.


Education
2015-2020     
Meisterschülerin (Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art), Berlin University of the Arts, DE
2013-2015      
Fine Art (Vordiplom / Intermediate Diploma), Academy of Fine Arts Dresden, DE
2010                
Fine Art (Exchange Semester), Central St.Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK
2006-2011      
B.A. Integrated Design, Yonsei University, Seoul, KR

Grants, Awards, Residencies
2026-2027
Selected participant, Reclaiming the Interface Lab, transmediale, Berlin, DE 
2026-2027
Artistic Fellowship IUNO, HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, DE
2026
K-ART Young Artist Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, KR
2024
Artist in Residence, ASIAN PERFORMING ARTISTS LAB(APAL), Berlin, DE
2022
Nominee, "Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium 2022"
NEUSTART KULTUR: Kickstarter-Grant for graduates of art schools, Stiftung Kunstfonds, DE
2020
Special scholarship program of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin, DE
Nominee, Prize of the president of UdK Berlin 2020
Nominee, Karl Hofer Stipendien 2020
2nd Prize, Neukölln Art Prize 2020, Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln, Berlin, DE
2019             
Graduation scholarship for international students of DAAD, DAAD(German Academic Exchange Service), DE
2018              
Nominee, Bundeswettbewerb Bundespreis für Kunststudierende
2016
Young Artist of the Year Award, GAMMA Young Artist Competition, Seoul, KR
Nominee/Finalist, Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, IT​​​​​​​
2014-2015    
DAAD scholarship for artists and architects, DAAD(German Academic Exchange Service), DE
Publications
2024
2021   
Corneous Stories: Cosmetics in Society and Time, City of Women – Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture, SL
2020   
Abwehrmechanismen, Universität der Künste, Berlin, DE
2019   
N*A*I*L*S hacks*facts*fictions, balkanet e.V. , Munich, DE
2018   
geschnitten reserviert, Universität der Künste, Berlin, DE
2016   
Arte Laguna Art Prize, On Demand, Venice, IT

​​​​​​​Curatorial Practice
2020  
Abwehrmechanismen, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin
2019   
Ohnmacht, Kulturpalast Wedding International, Berlin
2018   
Bunt, lebendig, fantastisch ohne happy end!, Bar Babette, Berlin

Talk & Lecture & Workshop
​​​​​​​2026
<Rituals of Care for the Wild>, Britzenale 6, Berlin
<Opaque Prompting as an Invocation – An Unremovable Monument for Ari>, They say I'm dead, Ari in Transit, ZK/U Berlin
2024 
​​​​​​​<Journeys of Solitude>, German Ethic Council, Berlin
<gegen\archive: wer bleibt wo>, Prater Galerie, Berlin
2023
Workshop on art installation, Jugendkunstschule Strahlsund 
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Exhibitions
2026
Symbiotic Glitches, Lobe Block, Berlin (upcoming)
Britzenale 6, Berlin 

2025
Wilder Ground,  Lobe Block, Berlin

2024
ASIAN PERFORMING ARTISTS LAB – AMNASIA.9, Berliner Ringtheater, Berlin
Journeys of Solitude, curated by artburst berlin e.V., hosted by Deutscher Ethikrat, Berlin
Habitat, to live for to dwell, curated by fünfter Löffel, Stadtwerkstatt Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin
Unschuldiges Ungeheuer, Hilbert Raum, Berlin

2023
Kochen, Putzen, Sorgen, Care-Arbeit in der Kunst seit 1960, Museum Quadrat, Bottrop
APARTMENT, Alexander Poetsch Architektur, Dresden
Fading into Eigengrau, 48h Neukölln, KINDL, Berlin

2022
The Show Must Go On, 48h Neukölln, KINDL-Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin 
Hauch, P145, Berlin (duo)
Opening Hours, Treptow-Atelier e.V., Berlin

Solo Attempts, Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden

2020
Corneus Stories, Galerie škuc, Festival CITY OF WOMEN, Ljubljana, SL 
REKORD-Kunstkaufhalle, ACUD, Berlin
Abwehrmechanismen, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin
Die Nominierten des Preises des Präsidenten der UdK Berlin 2020
Auf der Laube, Studio Huette, Berlin
Seen By #14: Imprinted Matter, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin
Abschlussausstellung, UdK, Berlin
Neuköllner Kunstpreis 2020, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin

2019 
Caused by Hair, Hymalaya Museum, Shanghai, CN
KLIRRRRR. Festival for queer cultures of conflict, DISTRICT, Berlin
Ohnmacht, Kulturpalast Wedding International, Berlin    
PLURAL-ex, uqbar, Berlin

2018  
no stop non stop, Lothringer halle 13, Munich
Je näher man es anssieht, desto schaut es zurück, 'FREIRAUM - LEERSTAND', Blomberg
N*A*I*L*S hacks*facts*fictions*, Universität der Künste Berlin
Bunt, lebendig, fantastisch ohne happy end!, Bar Babette, Berlin

2017   
Place, the end of one’s journey, GlogauAIR, Berlin
Lipsius Vibes, Kunsthalle im Lipsius-Bau, Dresden
extremely close & incredibly loud, GlogauAIR, Berlin

2016   
International Invited Exhibition: 2016 GAMMA Young Artist Competition, Seoul, KR
encounter, Deegar platform, Teheran, IR
klaustrophilie, Galerie OQBO, Berlin
Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenale, Venice, IT

2015   
homecoming, Hole of Fame, Dresden
Der Letzte macht das Licht aus., BISHOP, Dresden
Wirklichkeit, Kulturfabrik Apolda, Apolda
Jahresausstellung, HfBK Dresden, Dresden
Black Mountain College, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Abzocken ohne Anzuecken, Oktogon of HfBK Dresden, Dresden
(KR)
하진란은 베를린을 기반으로 설치, 영상, 퍼포먼스를 넘나드는 예술가이자 인터페이스 디자이너다. 그의 작업은 공식 역사의 주변부에 놓인 이주 여성과 무속적 존재의 흔적을 추적하며, 이들의 현존이 동시대 재현 시스템 안에서 어떻게 지속되거나 사라지는지를 탐문한다. 아카이브 연구, 몸으로 수행되는 의례, 그리고 장기적인 공동체 협업을 통해 불투명성과 집단적 기억을 예술적 방법론으로 삼는다. 또한 AI 이미지 생성 시스템에서 나타나는 알고리즘적 편향을 구조적·식민적 지움의 형태로 분석하는 작업을 병행한다. 기술, 신화, 그리고 소외된 몸이 교차하는 새로운 예술적 인터페이스를 제안한다.
(DE)
Jinran Ha ist eine in Berlin lebende Künstlerin und Interface-Designerin, die in den Bereichen Installation, Video und Performance arbeitet. Ihre Praxis verfolgt die Spuren migrierter Frauen und schamanistischer Figuren am Rand offizieller Geschichtsschreibung – und fragt, wie diese Präsenzen in gegenwärtigen Repräsentationssystemen fortbestehen oder verschwinden. Durch Archivrecherche, verkörperte Rituale und langfristige gemeinschaftliche Zusammenarbeit entwickelt sie Methoden, die Opazität und kollektives Gedächtnis als künstlerische Form begreifen. Ein paralleler Strang ihrer Arbeit untersucht algorithmische Verzerrungen in KI-Bildgeneratoren als strukturelle, koloniale Auslöschung. Ihre Arbeiten schlagen neue künstlerische Schnittstellen vor, an denen Technologie, Mythologie und marginalisierte Körper aufeinandertreffen.