About Kim Kluge
KIM KLUGE
Kim Kluge has been working as a freelance visual artist since completing her master's degree with Walter Dahn (Beuys). Born in Hanover, she moved to her new adopted home of Cologne/Bonn in 2000 due to the multicultural and creative climate. Kim Kluge works in multimedia. At the core of her work are abstract, structural questions and the combination of analogue and digital design possibilities as well as sociological aspects. Her artistic approaches claim a change in social perspective and transformation by visualising unusual ways of looking at things.
FELT AS A LINK FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL PROCESSES
I have been working with felt since the beginning of 2012. Felt wool is the first self-made garment in human history after animal fur. Our second skin that warms and protects us. Felt also stands for connection and social warmth. The fibres are firmly woven together using the needle technique, just like our human relationships. In the age of digital transformation, I create a counterpoint to our fast-moving times with my works, needle stitch by needle stitch on small and large formats. The needle is my brush. The finished picture is an object painting.
Kim Kluge (contemporary painter and conceptual artist)
INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION
Since 2024
art.salon
Head office
Hamburg, Germany
Since 2023
von fraunberg art gallery
Head office Düsseldorf, Germany
Saatchi Art Gallery
Head office London, GB
Since 2021
Kunstkaufhaus
Head office Dortmund,
Germany
Since 2020
gallery luzia sassen
Head office Bonn,
Hennef, Siegburg, Germany
Singulart
Head office Paris, France
Friendmade
Head office Bonn, Germany
Since 2019
Artworks
Head office Basel, Switzerland
2018-2019
Update Gallery
Headquarters
Bonn, Germany
2017-2018
Pixunique
Headquarters
Düsseldorf, Germany
2007-2012
Qyou Headquarters
Cologne, Germany
AWARDS
2023
artem Award
1st prize art competition
Bonn/ Hennef, Germany
2020
Fondazione Silene Giannini-Award
Basel, Switzerland
1999
Award for special artistic achievements
as a master student of Walter Dahn,
HBK Braunschweig
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Basel, Switzerland
Collection Praxis Thomy
Bonn, Germany
Collection La Linea Galerie
Volvo, Cologne, Germany
Collection Nord LB
Hannover, Germany
Collection Restaurant Cosi
Bonn, Germany
and various private collections
