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The large-format paintings of Nam Kim (born 1991 in the US, lives in Vienna) are inhabited by chunky androgynous, naked figures, which gently blend with the vegetation, light and shadows, or ornaments around them. "" The figures resonate with fluid grace, caught in the intimate moment between thought and touch."" (R. Grunenberg) Here, the human body is equal to its natural environs and not separate. Kim begins her paintings with zones of gestural abstraction, from which the characters grow like plants into her compositions. Kim grew up in Korea and her painting practice combines elements of Asian traditions (in art and theater) with Western art history and virtuality. This book presents her works of the last three years and includes an insightful essay by Robert Grunenberg.

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Nam Kim (b.1991) is an American-born Korean artist living and working in Vienna. Kim attended Ewha Womens University in Seoul and studied with Professor Kirsi Mikkola and Alastair Mackinveb at the Academy of fine arts Vienna. Her paintings are filled with large, rather two-dimensional characters, mostly nudes, alone or in groups. Their individuality is built by gestures, a gaze or a certain posture. As they are reduced and set in just as brilliant colours as the set pieces that make up the natural surroundings, the composition occasionally shifts from the figurative to the abstract. Robert Grunenberg is a Berlin-based gallerist and founder of Galerie Robert Grunenberg, established in 2018 in Charlottenburg. His program focuses on emerging and mid-career contemporary artists and interdisciplinary exhibition formats. In 2025, the gallery received the VBKI-Preis Berliner Galerien for its innovative curatorial work.

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