Kultuur
Maria Metsalu | Karim Boumjimar
17 January — 1 March 2025
at TINA Gallery
First Floor
191 Wardour Street
London, W1F 8ZE
Maria Metsalu and Karim Boumjimar explore, through Kultuur, the possibility of the sacred in the profane, the poetic in the prosaic. It presents earthly pleasures, even if their energy comes from the body of a celestial star. It is a ritual of expenditure. An economy of desires.
Maria Metsalu (b. 1990, Estonia)
Recent group exhibitions include with Young boy dancing group, Friedrichs Pontone gallery, New York, NY (2024); With Young boy dancing group, Neven gallery, (2024); The Well: exhibition with Jaakko Pallasvuo and Tarvo Porroson, EKA galerii, Tallinn (2021); Stinking dawn, with Gelitin and Liam Gillick, Kunsthalle Wien (2019); with Young boy dancing group, PS2, Belfast (2018); A Strong Desire, with Young boy dancing group, PS120, Berlin (2018); Soft Scrub, Hard Body, Liquid Presence, Art In General, during Performa 17, New York, NY (2017). Metsalu has performed at the ICA, London; Munich Spielart Festival; deSingel Theater, Antwerp; Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn amongst other venues.
Karim Boumjimar (b. 1998, Malaga, Spain; Lives and works Copenhagen, Denmark)
Recent solo exhibitions include Fluid Forms, Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2023); Stroke, Creator Projects, Copenhagen (2023); Business of Living, NSFW/SVILOVA, Gothenburg (2023); Orgy of Consumption, Springbrættet 6a, Copenhagen (2023); and Alien Water, Art Hub Copenhagen, Copenhagen (2021). Group exhibitions include Queer Ecologies, Centro de Arte la Panera, Lleida (2023); Fear and Fauna, Dag H 42, Copenhagen (2023); Psychopathia Sexualis, O-Overgaden, Copenhagen (2021); Speaking in Tongues, Blake, Vargas, Berlin (2021); Moby Dick, or The Whale, Wu Tsang, Schauspielhaus, Zurich (2021); Popular Courage of Duchess Orchid, Cucina x Copenhill, Copenhagen (2021); Young Girl Reading Group, a performance at Kunstverein, Hamburg (2021); and A Night in Alexander, Alexander Sauna, Athenes (2018).