Mar. 2014
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,[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 does not function solely as an expression of production in a gallery context without a constant exhibition space, but as a space of constant self-reflection and reinvention. It concatenates the artist´s work, the venue and the exhibition method at individual levels by adapting these three factors to each other, so that, rather than forming a banal productivity space, the artist is re-empowered through a transfer of techniques and methods across various domains.[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]
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