Outdoors & Immersive with Kimsooja

This is the summer art lovers took to the great outdoors. And is there a better place to experience contemporary art? At the sculpture park Wanås Konst in Sweden, Kimsooja’s solo exhibition Sowing Into Painting, makes you follow flax, used in the painter’s canvas and paint, on a journey through textile craft on different continents, a planted flax field that bloomed, ripened and is harvested, to the Laundry Field of 100 vintage, white, decorated bed sheets strung up between the majestic beech trees in the sculpture park.

In the massive Hay Barn from the early 18th Century she has turned the cathedral like building into the immersive installation To Breathe. We wander out on a mirrored surface that reflects our surroundings, listens to a soundtrack of the artist breathing and humming and find a painting made from scraps of textile stuffed into the ancient wall. Emptiness can be this full of meaning, and you are part of it. The foundation run sculpture park that was established in 1987 is just 1,5 h from Copenhagen airport. The exhibition by Kimsooja runs until November 1, 2020. (Image: Kimsooja, Sowing into Painting, 2020. Photo: Martin Lang. Courtesy Kimsooja Studio and Wanås Konst)

Kimsooja, Sowing Into Painting
The Wanås Foundation - Wanås Konst
Knislinge, Sweden

Kimsooja is represented by Kewenig, Berlin & Palma, Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp & Hong Kong and Raffaella Cortese, Milan.