Kim Kim Gallery

Kim Kim Gallery

Kim Kim Gallery opened their first showroom in 2011 near Garosu-gil in Seoul
Founded March 2008
Founder Gregory Maass & Nayoungim
Focus Contemporary art
Location
  • Seoul, South-Korea
Origins Market Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Employees
 2
Website www.kimkimgallery.com

Kim Kim Gallery is a contemporary art gallery run by Gregory Maass & Nayoungim, a German-Korean artist duo. The Gallery was founded at the Market Gallery[1] in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2008.[2] It describes itself as "a non-profit organization, locative art,[3] an art dealership based on unconventional marketing, a curatorial approach, an exhibition design firm,[4] and editor of rare artist books,[5] depending on the situation it adapts to; in short, it does not fit the format imposed by the term "Gallery".Clemens Krümmel[6] writes "This begins with the excess of dis-identificatory self-reference in creative dialogue with the institution Kim Kim Gallery, along with corporate identity and advertising products and a mania borrowed from Martin Kippenberger for 'great' work or exhibition titles".[7]

Kim Kim Gallery is an institution which does not solely function in a gallery context, but through self-awareness evaluation and adaptation of KKG´s structure to varying spatial, financial, and esthetic circumstances. It is a peripatetic enterprise, which infiltrates the structure of contemporary art through unconventional marketing and seeks formats in which art works can function efficiently and independently from the mainstream.[8][9]

KKG has gained international recognition through their projects, including, among others: Douglasism[10] at the international Art Fair, Art:Gwangju:12 in Korea[11] the solo exhibition "Apple vs. Banana"[12] of Chung Seo-young, voted one of the best shows in 2011 by the Art in Culture Magazine; and "More of the Best of Firmin Graf Salawàr dej Striës" by Jeff Gabel, exhibiting new large scale site-specific drawings on canvas rendered in pencil. KKG contributed as exhibition designer to the Daegu Photo Biennial special exhibition in 2012.[13]

Their latest project is "Douglasism",[14] [15] [16] [17] a festival which took place in Seoul in October–November 2013, centered on the works of British artist Douglas Park[18] [19] [20] [21] [22] ,[23] in collaboration with Komplot Brussels,[24] Trinity ∴[25] and FLACC.[26]

History 2008 - 2013

Apple vs. Banana

Chung Seoyoung
"Apple vs. Banana" May 2011
at the Hyundai Cultural Center, Seoul

In the "Apple vs. Banana" show, Chungs work deals pragmatically and humorously with the grotesque sides of our daily life. The exhibition title derives from the futile choice between dietary fiber and carbohydrate. In this show, Chung Seoyoung accentuates the bland, and produced a range of sober, pure and obviously inexpressive works of art. She built a set of objects: tables, a light bulb, a kitchenette, an aquarium, a spot, and snowballs constructing a certain encompassing physical and organizational structure in the model apartments. The time stood still on the second sub-level of the Hyundai Cultural Center in Seoul, where Kim Kim Gallery renovated and occupied two derelict model apartments from the early 1990s.[27] About the Hyundai Cultural Center: Hyundai Group was founded as a construction company, which rapidly achieved legendary status. [28][29]

Stuffs!

Nakhee and Nakyoung Sung
"Stuffs!" February 2012
Gang-nam, Seoul

Nakhee and Nakyoung Sung are sisters.[30] The many painted faces, grimacing, sign-like, broadly applied seem to open a mimetic space-within-the-space. Some of Nakhee and Nakyoung Sung’s gestures seem to me just as raw as if they had broken down the walls. "Their artistic intelligence and skill is not limited to languages of painting, it resides in the sometimes disharmonic, sometimes utterly willful, capricious application of their personal, intra-familial, professional ambivalences. And since it lets outside images and sounds seep through the walls, it is on the way to break open any cube or preconception of painting." [31]

More of the Best of Firmin Graf Salawàr dej Striës

Jeff Gabel
"Magdalena smacks Firmin in the mouth with her napkin", 2011 Pencil on paper 9"x12"

In 2012, Jeff Gabel realised large site-specific drawings in graphite on wall-filling canvases for Kim Kim Gallery. The images themselves tended to be awkward or inept, as Gabel employs no measurements or other preparation work, regardless of size. The stories which accompany Gabel's images on walls or other surfaces typically develop as a drawing progresses, and are often suggested or driven by the physical spaces, and by conditions relating to the respective exhibitions, such as time limit, allotted space, exhibition content, travel logistics & problems, and the artist's recent readings.

At Kim Kim Gallery, Gabel attempts to translate, adapt, and illustrate various sections of "Salwàre oder Die Magdalena von Bozen" while consuming numerous servings of alcohol and copious amounts of chewing tobacco, deliberately influencing the voice and aptitude of the drawing and writing.

Douglasism

Douglas Park
reading "A nigh-on compulsory cliché"
At the Betsy Trotwood Pub, London, July 2012

Douglasism is a term deriving from the name of the contemporary British artist Douglas Park. Douglas Park is in his own words „born in 1972, UK visual artist, writer (of literary prose and critical essays, both mostly art connected), exhibition curator and multiple practices and roles combined.“ Douglas Park is a polyvalent artist, actor, narrator, writer, curator. He has a vast but strangely intangible oeuvre of great humanism. These works often displayed by, or are co-created with Douglas Park. Douglasism provides a deeper insight into the working methods, perspectives and traits of work by and with Douglas Park. The origin of the term "Douglasism" lies in a title of a show curated by the late Piers Wardle aka Lewis Draper.[32] Kim Kim Gallery adopted this title and consider Douglasism as a many-layered perspective on the totality of the creative activity of Douglas Park. The term “Douglasism” compares to political movements and art movements of the 19th and early 20th century. It is not solely the work of Douglas Park but also engulfs the works of many other artists, with whom Douglas Park works up to the present.

Contributing artists included among others: Claire Fontaine[33] , Nico Dockx, Aeon Rose, Jan Mast, Richard Crow, Mark Aerial Waller, Christine Mitrentse, Monika K. Adler, Olive Martin, Anthony Gross, Michelle Naismith, Gideon Cube Sherman, Cel Crabeels, Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, Owen Piper.[34]

Exhibited Artists

References

  1. ↑ "Market Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland".
  2. ↑ "korean artist Nayoungim, Gregory Maass’s KIM KIM GALLERY – View artworks" (in Korean). Akive. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  3. ↑ "Chung Seyoung 정서영, Apple vs. Banana, Hyundai Culture Center, Seoul, 2011".
  4. ↑ "Exhibition design by Kim Kim Gallery at the Photo Biennial Daegu, 2012".
  5. ↑ "Caustic Window, Kim Kim Papi Gallery Publisher".
  6. ↑ "Clemens Krümmel, bio at ETH Zürich, Switzerland".
  7. ↑ "Unfuckingreal: Nayoungim & Gregory Maass Works 2009-2012, p. 6-7 - Idea Books". Ideabooks.nl. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  8. ↑ "List of Kim Kim Gallery exhibitions.".
  9. ↑ "It all indefinite article. Text by Clemens Krümmel 2012".
  10. ↑ "Douglasism Blog, works by and in collaboration with British artist Douglas Park".
  11. ↑ "Kim Kim Gallery presents Douglasism at Art : Gwangju : 12 with works from Trinity ∴ | Trinity ∴ is a London and Oslo based consultancy that provides strategic communications services for the arts sector". Aligntrinity.com. 2012-09-09. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  12. ↑ "Announcement archive". e-artnow.org. 2011-05-27. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  13. ↑
  14. ↑ "Official Blog on Douglasism, concerning acticitivies with and in collaboration with British artist Douglas Park.".
  15. ↑ "Douglasism Festival 2013, events, Seoul, South-Korea".
  16. ↑ "Douglasism Festival: Show 1. Douglasism, Itemized Miasma, by Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul".
  17. ↑ "Kim Kim Gallery Video Channel on YouTube, featuring videos with Douglas Park, shown during the Douglasism Festival, 2013".
  18. ↑ "Biobibliography and biography of British artist Douglas Park".
  19. ↑ "I, You, We and them - together, text by Douglas Park,".
  20. ↑ "Babushkoid Hibernatorium. text by Douglas Park, 2003".
  21. ↑ "Micro-Colonial-Drift / Growth-Area (via the Scenic-Route), text by Douglas Park, 2001".
  22. ↑ "Tamederness, text by Douglas Park".
  23. ↑ "Woodland, Mountain, Desert, Arctic and Marine Geology, Organic, Climate and Weather Merchandise, Services and Personnel, Text by Douglas Park, 2005".
  24. ↑ "Official website of Komplot, Brussels, Belgium".
  25. ↑ "Trinity ∴ is a London and Oslo based consultancy that provides strategic communications services for the arts sector". Aligntrinity.com. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  26. ↑ "FLACC". Flacc.info. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  27. ↑ "Kim Kim Gallery blog: Apple vs. Banana Review". Kimkimgallery.blogspot.kr. 2011-11-07. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  28. ↑ "50th Venice Biennial, Republic of Korea Press Release, May 2003".
  29. ↑ http://universes-in-universe.de/car/venezia/bien50/kor/e-press.htm
  30. ↑ "Walking Tour [2012.02] Kim Kim Gallery feat. Artists Nakyoung Sung and Nakhee Sung". YouTube. 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  31. ↑ "Kim Kim Gallery blog: Kim Kim Lecture & Talk". Kimkimgallery.blogspot.kr. 2012-02-15. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  32. ↑ "Douglasisms 2005". Douglasism.blogpsot.kr. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  33. ↑ "Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective artist, founded in 2004.".
  34. ↑ "Invitation letter to Douglasims Festival 2013, with list of contributors".
  35. ↑ "Klaus Weber". K-weber.com. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  36. ↑ "Geert Goiris : Homepage". Geertgoiris.info. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  37. ↑ Stefan Ettlinger (2012-03-15). "Stefan Ettlinger - home". Ettlinger.de. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  38. ↑ "Ingo Baumgarten- Malerei". Ingobaumgarten.de. Retrieved 2014-03-06.

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