 Kim Kim Gallery opened their first showroom in 2011 near Garosu-gil in Seoul | |
| Founded | March 2008 |
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| Founder | Gregory Maass & Nayoungim |
| Focus | Contemporary art |
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| Origins | Market Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Employees | 2 |
| Website | www |
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]
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KKG has gained international recognition through their projects, including, among others: Douglasism [8] at the international Art Fair, Art:Gwangju:12 in Korea [9] the solo exhibition "Apple vs. Banana" [10] 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. [11]
"Douglasism", [12] [13] [14] [15] a festival which took place in Seoul in October–November 2013, centered on the works of British artist Douglas Park [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] , [21] in collaboration with Komplot Brussels, [22] Trinity ∴ [23] and FLACC. [24]