Studio Grant holder in Gothenburg October 2024 – December 2024

Kim Laybourn is a Danish visual artist living in Norway. Laybourn’s practice includes text, video, sound, music, animation, drawing, sculpture and installation.

Kim Laybourn

In his practice, Laybourn deals with transcending our notions of reality, and its inherent or adopted possibilities and limitations. Including the constructions and concepts that are taken for granted, as final conditions, brought forward by political, religious and economic ambitions. Laybourn works with the human-centric worldview and concept of nature, as well as the tension between the authentic and the unnatural, which influences how we approach everything from ecosystems and biodiversity, production and resources, to gender and sexuality. He uses this to form notions of a heightened reality, which examines the human position, by virtue of everything we touch, and which surrounds and shapes us.

During his IASPIS residency he will work on preparing works for two exhibitions. The first that will open the 8th of November 2024 at Gallery Box in Gothenburg, and the second that will open the 30th of January 2025, at Norwegian Sculptor Association in Oslo. For both show Laybourn will be making a series of modular reliefs, that will be applied to structures and made into sculptures and installations. Also he will be working on a video piece called The Living Wall.

Kim Laybourn holds a MFA degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. In recent years, Laybourn has exhibited solo and in group exhibitions, these include: Høstutstillingen 2024, The state’s 137th art exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway; Norwegian Situations (2024), NADA East Broadway, New York City, New York, USA; Cacotopia 08: Lumen Prize Shortlisted Artists 2023 (2023), Annka Kultys Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Østlandsutstillingen 2023 (2023), Østfold kunstsenter, Fredrikstad, Buskerud Kunstsenter, Drammen, Norway; Abundance (2023), The 46th edition of Tendenser biennial, Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway; Not So Sacred Grove (2022), Babel, Trondheim, Norway; I Call it Art (2022), The National Museum, Oslo, Norway; The Temporary Institute of Coexistence (2022), Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland; The Significant Other (2020), PODIUM, Oslo, Norway.