Kenji Lim
Kenji Lim, geboren 1980 in Singapur, lebt und arbeitet in Essex (UK). Er studierte Bildhauerei am Londoner Royal College of Art (2017-2019) und der Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University (1999-2002).
Kenji Lims Werke wollen unsere Wahrnehmung von Landschaft und Natur durch kulturelle, mythologische, philosophische und metaphysische Prismen brechen, indem ein neuer Blick durch die Augen nicht-menschlicher Wesen auf bekannte westliche Kulturnormen geworfen wird. Lims melancholische und manchmal ironische Parallelwelten konzentrieren sich häufig auf ihre ökologischen und archäologischen Daseinsaspekte. Seine Skulpturen, Videos, digitale Collagen, Installationen und Malereien funktionieren dabei sowohl einzeln als auch als Gruppeninstallation
Kenji Lim is a British artist based in Essex, born 1980 in Singapore. He works through sculpture, video, digital collage, installation, and painting, to produce objects, animations, and images that operate both individually, and collectively as installation and assembly. Lim’s work reflects and refracts the experience of landscape and the natural world through the prisms of culture, myth, philosophy, and the metaphysical; returning the gaze of Western cultural norms through the eyes of other-than-human actors. Partly ecological and archeological, in turns melancholic and tongue in cheek, he navigates alternative modes of seeing, understanding, and interacting with the world and its inhabitants.
Lim studied Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London (MA - 2017-2019); and the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University (BFA - 1999-2002). He is currently an Acme Work/Live Artist at High House in Purfleet, Essex. Recent exhibitions include Situated Deities at The Stone Space, London; Neverafter at Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna; and The Flood Machine at The Window Project, Cambridge.
Ausstellungen in der Galerie Reinthaler
Solo Shows
2024
Spend Time Not Thinking About Tomorrow, IMT Gallery, London (UK)
2022
Shivering Cloud, Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna (AT)
2021
Situated Deities - The Stone Space, London (UK)
Enter Art Fair Copenhagen, solo presentation, Galerie Reinthaler (AT)
2015
Beginning Times - The Globe at Hay, Hay-on-Wye (UK)
2014
At Home With Strangers - Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo (JAP)
Group Shows
2025
Exeter Contemporary Open, The Exeter Phoenix Gallery (UK)
The Wicker Arms - Staffordshire Street, London (UK)
Into The Woods - Art Exchange, Colchester (UK)
I Have A Competitive Advantage Because I Can Move - Petticoat Gallery, Basel (CH)
2024
An eXhibition of SMALL things with BIG ideas, White Conduit Projects, London (UK)
Something Quickening, Panrucker Gallery, London (UK)
Potluck - 44AD, Bath (UK)
L'éte, c'est moi! - Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna (AT)
2023
Ten:th - Quip and Curiosity, Cambridge (UK)
Tourist (mit Catharina Bond), Galerie Reinthaler, Wien (AT)
2022
There’s a Hole in My Neighbourhood, The London Arts Board, London (UK)
2021
Situated Deities Selected for Alchemy Film Festival 2021
Southwark Park Galleries, London (UK)
2020
Small Pleasures - DINA, Sheffield (online)
Arts Territory Exchange Sound Library - (online)
Biosphere Consciousness - Conscious Isolation, Instagram (online)
Gardens of Earthly Delight, Instagram (online)
Isolation - Conscious Isolation, Instagram (online)
The Flood Machine - The Window Project, Cambridge (UK)
2019
Something Written or Recorded - a_space_is_a_space, Instagram (online)
Neverafter, Galerie Reinthaler, Wien (mit Catharina Bond) (AT)
Re - Southwark Park Galleries, London (UK)
Royal College of Art Degree Show - RCA Kensington, London (UK)
Dirty Hands and Revelations - Standpoint, London (UK)
Merzibition - Courtyard Gallery, RCA, London (UK)
2018
#34 Annual Open Exhibition, CGP, London (UK)
Sleep and the Unconcious - Savoir Beds, London (UK)
Supercult I & II — Hockney Gallery, London (UK)
2017
WIP - RCA Sculpture, London (UK)
Hanes: tales, stories, legends & myths - Aberystwyth Arts Centre (UK)
The Forest at the End of the World - Blue Ginger Gallery, Herefordshire (UK)
Embodied Cartographies - Walcot Chapel, Bath (part of Fringe Arts Bath) (UK)
Beasts of the Mabinogion - Oriel CRiC, Crickhowell (UK)
The Words Come From the Land - Porth (UK)
Melgan, St. Davids, Pembrokeshire (UK)
Art + Text - 44AD, Bath (UK)
2016
Wells Art Contemporary 2016 - The Bishops Palace, Wells (UK)
Royal West of England Academy 164 Open Exhibition - RWA Bristol (UK)
Art Language Location - Cambridge (UK)
TimeFrame - 94 Walcot st, Bath (part of Fringe Arts Bath) (UK)
The Peace of Wild Things - Blue Ginger Gallery, Herefordshire (UK)
2015
Art Language Location - Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK)
Royal West of England Academy 163 Open Exhibition - RWA Bristol (UK)
Love and Death at Walcot Chapel - Walcot (UK)
Chapel, Bath (part of Fringe Arts Bath) (UK)
2014
Art Gemini Prize 2014 Exhibition - Tri-Space Gallery, London (UK)
East-West Art Award Competition (EWAAC)
2014 Exhibition - La Galleria, London (UK)
2012
Fringe Arts Bath Open Exhibition - The Old Officer's Club, Bath (UK)
2002
Ruskin Degree Show - Ruskin School, Oxford (UK)
Becks Futures Student Prize 2002 - ICA, London (and Touring)
Artist in Residencies, Publications & Awards
2022
Arts Council England - Develop Your Creative Practice Grant
2021
ACME Work/Live artist, Purfleet Essex (until 08/2024)
2020
Mustarinda, Finland - Residency including Slow Travel Grant
2019
Moonlight Is Sculpture - Publication
Dirty Hands and Revelations residency, Standpoint Gallery, London
2018
Merz Barn Residency, Chapel Stile, Cumbria
2016
Wells Art Contemporary 2016 - Shortlisted
Mustarinda, Finland - Residency
2015
Art Language Location, ALL2015 award - Winner
2014
ArtGeminiPrize 2014 - Shortlisted
East-West Art Award Competition (EWAAC) 2014 - Finalist
2002
Becks Futures Student Prize 2002 - Shortlisted and placed 3rd