Kim Laybourn
(He/him)
Address: Oslo Open, Rådhusgata 19, 0158 Oslo
Floor: 1.
The studio is open Sunday 28 April from 12-17
In my practice, I deal with the transcendence of our conceptions of reality, and its inherent or adopted possibilities and limitations. Including the constructions and concepts that are taken for granted, as definitive terms. I work with the human-centric worldview, the concept of nature and the Western view of nature, as well as the tension between the authentic and the unnatural. I use this in my work with sculpture, video and sound, music, text, drawing and installation, to form notions of a heightened reality, which examines the human position, by virtue of everything we touch, which surrounds and shapes us.
Video, sound, sculpture, text, music, drawing and installation
Title: The Animate Landscape.
Artist: Kim Laybourn.
Technique: 3D animation video, stereo sound.
Duration: 22.27 min.
Year: 2023.
Venue: Gallery F15, Moss, Norway.
Installation image.
Photo: Eivind Lauritzen.
Title: The Significant Other.
Artist: Kim Laybourn.
Technique: Video installation, stereo sound.
Duration: 15.38 min.
Year: 2020.
Venue: Podium, Oslo Norway.
Installation photo.
Photo: Ayatgali Tuleubek.
Title: Not So Sacred Grove.
Artist: Kim Laybourn.
Technique: Drawing, graphite, mahogany frame.
Duration: 15.38 min.
Year: 2022.
Venue: BABEL visningsrom for kunst, Trondheim, Norway.
Installation photo.
Photo: Susann Jamtøy.
Title: Sentient Landscape.
Artist: Kim Laybourn.
Technique: Video installation
Duration: 13.30 min.
Year: 2020.
Venue: Sol, Nexø, Denmark.
Installation photo.
Photo: Sofie Amalie Andersen.
The Animate Landscape 2023 Excerpt:
The Significant Other 2020 Excerpt:
Planned projects and exhibitions
2025 Group exhibition, Kirjo, Oulu Museum of Art, Oulu, FI.
2024 Solo exhibition, Galleri Box, Gothenburg, SE.
2024 Residency, Nordic Artists’ Center in Dale, Dale, NO.
2024 Group exhibition, NADA East Broadway, New York City, US-NY.
CV
Education:
2017-2019 MFA; Master of Visual Arts. Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Oslo, NO.
2014-2017 BFA; Bachelor of Fine Arts. Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Oslo, NO.
Selected solo exhibitions:
2024 Galleri Box, Gothenburg, SE.
2022 Ingenlunde Hellig / Not So Sacred Grove, BABEL, Trondheim, NO.
2022 The Temporary Institute of Artistic Research into Ways of Coexistence, WAMx, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, WAM, Turku, FI.
2020 Window of Otherworldly Delights, K4, Oslo, NO.
2020 The Conscious Landscape, Sol, Nexø, DK.
2020 Window of Otherworldly Delights, Studio17, Stavanger, NO.
2020 The Significant Other, PODIUM, Oslo, NO.
2019 The Significant Other, TA-DA, Copenhagen, DK.
2018 Harmonious Dystopia, Academy Room, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO.
Selected group exhibitions:
2025 Kirjo, Oulu Museum of Art, Oulu, FI.
2024 NADA East Broadway, New York City, US-NY.
2023 ANNKA KULTYS PHYGITAL, ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY, London, UK.
2023 Østlandsutstillingen 2023, Østfold art center, Nova Hutha exhibition site, Fredrikstad. Buskerud Art Centre, Godsen, Siloen, Store Gilhus Gård, Drammen, NO.
2023 Tendenser 2023 Abundance, The 46th edition of Tendenser biennial, Gallery F15, Moss, NO.
2022 I call it art, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, NO.
2022 OS!O You Won’t Believe It, Oslo, NO.
2021 YOWL 2 (Duo w/ David Tobias Bonde Jensen). Uncannyvally.dk, ONLINE.
2021 (in)visible realities, Vandrehallen Kunsthal, Hillerød Library, Hillerød, DK.
2021 Mapping an Unlimited Landscape, Danish Cultural Center, Beijing, CN.
2020 YOWL (Duo w/ David Tobias Bonde Jensen). Løvens Hule, ONLINE.
2020 Expanded Animation, The Animation Workshop, Viborg Museum, Viborg, DK.
2020 Oslo City, BOA, Oslo, NO.
2019 100, Galleri CC, Malmö, SE.
2019 Struktura-Time, The Wrong Biennale 2019/2020, Online. Oslo, NO.
2019 MFA GRADUATION SHOW, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO.
2019 Supermarket 2019, Stockholm Independent Art Fair. Represented by TA-DA. Stockholm, Sweden.
2017 BYOB, Field of Dreams, Oslo, NO.
2017 Autumn exhibition 2017, The State’s 130th art exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO.
2017 Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition MMXVII, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK.
Selected awards and grants:
2023 Shortlisted, Lumen Prize 2023. Nordic. UK.
2023 SLKS, 1 year working grant, Danish Arts Foundation. DK.
2023 BKV, 3 year working grant, Norwegian Visual Artists Fund. NO.
2022 SKS, Diverse grant, Arts and Culture Norway. NO.
2021 SLKS, Working grant, Danish Arts Foundation. DK.
2021 SKS, 2 year working grant for younger / newly established artists, Arts and Culture Norway. NO.
2020 SKS, Temporary Covid-19 Stipend, Arts and Culture Norway. NO.
2020 SLKS, Working grant, Danish Arts Foundation. DK.
2020 BKV, Working grant, Norwegian Visual Artists Fund. NO.
2019 FKDS, 1 year studio program. The Foundation for Art and Design Students, Kunstnernes Hus. NO.
2019 SKS, Diverse grant for newly graduated artists. Arts and Culture Norway. NO.
Residencies:
2024 Nordic Artists’ Center in Dale, Dale, NO.
2021Notam, Norwegian center for technology in music and art, Oslo, NO.