Karim Boumjimar reimagines the gallery as a living architecture at Viborg Kunsthal
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Karim Boumjimar reimagines the gallery as a living architecture at Viborg Kunsthal
Karim Boumjimar: Birds of Paradise at Viborg Kunsthal, 2026. Photo: Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen.



VIBORG.- A system of elevated wooden frameworks runs through the corridors. These structures operate simultaneously as supports and as passageways: they direct movement, frame sightlines, and produce partial concealments. Visitors move under, around, and along- side them, becoming aware of their own bodies in relation to architecture. The structures function less as display furniture than as spatial choreography, guiding circulation while also shadowing it.

The exhibition unfolds across a sequence of extended rooms, bringing together ceramics, drawings, wooden structures, soil, and a video work still in process. Rather than forming a linear narrative, the works create a contained temporality in which identity, cruising parks, memory, and institutional space exist as parallel environments.

Across the walls and ceramic vessels, human and non-human figures appear: animals, hybrid bodies, gestures recalled from parties, intimate encounters, and re-choreographed fragments of memory. The vessels act as carriers of images and time, holding scenes rather than illustrating them. A vitrine containing soil introduces an exterior ground into the gallery, while a projected carousel of Moroccan streets from the artist’s childhood, archaeological objects, and natural forms appear in a curtained viewing space. Positioned low and intimate, the projection resembles both cinema and shelter, less symbolic than atmospheric, a trace of lived presence entering the institutional interior.

Rather than resolving into a story, the exhibition operates as a constellation: a suspension of bodies, spaces, and histories that coexist without hierarchy, where the gallery becomes at once architecture, landscape, and memory.

Karim Boumjimar (b. 1998, Spain) has an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and a BFA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Lon- don. Boumjimar challenges social hierarchies and norms through performance, painting, sculpture, installation, and drawing. His works explore queer communities and interspe- cies kinship and investigate the complex relationship between nature, culture, and identi- ty.

His recent productions include solo exhibitions at Overgaden, Copenhagen (2025); Pori Museum, Pori (2025) and CFHILL, Stockholm (2025). His group exhibitions and perfor- mances include shows at Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki (2025); Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stock- holm (2025); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2025); TINA Gallery, London (2025); Kiasma Theater, Helsinki (2024); Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida (2023); Overgaden, Copen- hagen (2021); Kunstverein, Hamburg (2021); and Schauspielhaus, Zurich (2021).










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