About this Event
Join us, Dr. Han Jik Kim, L Ac., D.O.M., artitsts Lauren Kim, Enoch Ma, and Jane Zhang, the partners from Hajo Holistic, and community artists, partners, and friends on Thursday, November 20th, 2025 from 6:30-9:30 PM for the opening reception for the exhibition INNER LANDSCAPES.
Inner Landscapes is a collaborative installation by Lauren Kim, Enoch Ma, and Jane Zhang, created in partnership with Dr. Han Jik Kim of Hajo Holistic. Addressing the accumulated uses, neglects, and imagined futures of MacArthur Park, the project draws on traditional East Asian medical practices as tools for historical and artistic inquiry. Through these diagnostic methods, the park’s netted, unruly past begins to surface, set along the fertile verge between memory and matter, private and public, nature and culture.
Taking inspiration from the Neijing Tu—a Taoist diagram mapping the spirit’s journey through the body’s interior terrain—and guided by the Wu Xing cycle of creation and destruction, the work reimagines MacArthur Park as a living enmeshment, animated by elemental flows, vicinal blockages, and latent energies. Here, archived proposals, geologic histories, and even bird droppings become diagnostic markers—substrates through which the park’s inner landscape begins to unravel.
Each Wednesday from 2–5 PM, the installation transforms into a community acupuncture pop-up, offering free services to the public by appointment—relocating the metaphor of healing from the landscape to the body itself.
Admission is free.
All ages are welcome.
Light refreshments provided
PROGRAM:
6:30 PM Doors open.
7:15 PM Welcoming + Introduction + Opening Ritual
9:00 PM End of Event
Dr. Han Jik Kim, L Ac., D.O.M. is a licensed acupuncturist and educator with over 25 years of experience in clinical practice and teaching. He is an expert on acupuncture, herbal medicine, and classic oriental medicine texts. He runs Hajo Holistic in Macarthur Park, Los Angeles with his daughter Lauren.
Lauren Kim is a place-based researcher and artist whose work explores landscape, healing, and systems of knowledge. Working primarily with paper, metal, and natural materials, her professional and artistic practices bridge ecological processes with embodied experience. She is one half of the creative collective Cloud6.
Enoch Ma is an artist and builder whose work spans a range of materials and scales. Drawing from close observations of the natural world, his practice considers the enduring patterns of nature and how they find reflection within us. He is currently a MFA student in sculpture at Cal State Long Beach.
Jane Zhang is a scholar of popular literature and vernacular medicine. She is currently doing a PhD at Yale and writes about snuff boxes, tin figures, and the stereoscope. She is the other half of the creative collective Cloud6.
INNER LANDSCAPES
is on view November 20, 2025 - January 29, 2026.
During Office Hours:
Tuesday–Thursdays: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Fridays: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
The Goethe-Institut is closed to the public on Mondays and on weekends, unless otherwise noted.
The Goethe-Institut will be closed November 24-28, 2025 and from December 22 - January 2, 2026
Secure, free Parking is available at Metro/Retail parking structure with rear entrance to the Goethe-Institut located at
Public transport is possible with the red line to MacArthur Park/Westlake stop. Using carpool or ride-share options are appreciated.
INNER LANDSCAPES is part of the Neighborhood Interpretive Center, a hyperlocal initiative of cultural programs that focus on and uplift the MacArthur Park/Westlake neighborhood and surrounding areas.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles Project Space, 1901 W. 7th St., Los Angeles, United States
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