Kenji Lim
Kenji Lim, geboren 1980 in Singapur, lebt und arbeitet in London und Essex (UK). Er studierte Bildhauerei am Londoner Royal College of Art (2017-2019) und der Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University (1999-2002).
Kenji Lim arbeitet mit Skulptur, Video, digitaler Collage, Installation und Malerei. Seine Arbeiten spiegeln und brechen unsere Wahrnehmung von Landschaft und Natur im Spannungsfeld von Kultur, Mythos, Philosophie und Metaphysik. Dabei kehrt er die gewohnte Blickrichtung um und betrachtet westliche kulturelle Normen aus der Perspektive nichtmenschlicher Akteure. Zwischen ökologischem Denken und Fraggle Rock eröffnen seine Arbeiten Alternativen, unsere Welt und ihre Bewohner wahrzunehmen und zu verstehen.
Kenji Lim is a British artist based in London and 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. Part ecological, part Fraggle Rock, he navigates alternative modes of seeing and understanding 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). Recent exhibitions include Something Quickening at Panrucker Gallery, London; Spend Time Not Thinking About Tomorrow at IMT, London; Tourist at Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna; and Perishing Thirst at Quench Gallery, Margate.
Ausstellungen in der Galerie Reinthaler
Solo Shows
2026
Wide Eyed Half Light, Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna (AT)
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
2026
Common Ground - Mandy Zhang Art, London (UK)
Fall Apart / Come Together - Amici Studio, Hastings (UK)
2025
The Wicker Arms - Staffordshire Street, London (UK)
Into The Woods - Art Exchange, Colchester
I Have A Competitive Advantage Because I Can Move - Petticoat Gallery, Basel (CH)
Exeter Contemporary Open - The Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter (UK)
Salon - Tone Soho, London (UK)
Cheapside - Hypha Gallery 1, 1 Poultry, London (UK)
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
2025
Audience Choice Award, Exeter Contemporary Open - Exeter Phoenix Gallery
2020-2025
Acme Work/Live resident at Acme High House
2022
Arts Council England - Develop Your Creative Practice Grant
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