Na Kim/LOOM
At Miss Read, the table explores circulation and disappearance: objects shift hands, find new contexts, and sometimes vanish. It asks what we keep, what we let go, and how archives might move instead of settle.
Based between Berlin and Seoul, Na Kim works across publishing, exhibitions, and curation. Her practice centers on collecting and rearranging found materials through deliberate systems. She runs LOOM, a project space in Berlin hosting exhibitions and gatherings, with open sessions by appointment each Friday.
www.ynkim.com / www.l-o-o-m.com
An extension of the ongoing SET project, this ambitious publication, PORTRAIT, proposes an accommodating container—one capable of holding matters of accumulation, testing out new methods of making, revealing past processes, and introducing serendipity and co-authorship into the evolving narrative that is Na Kim’s practice.
The publication follows a familiar trajectory in the footsteps of SET ’s logic, mapping real-world scale and perspective onto the printed page. There are more than three hundred printed pages—‘blank slates,’ inviting canvases—for an experimental dialogue between archival elements, the present moment, and unknown outcomes.
Easy Heavy is the catalogue for Na Kim's solo exhibition of the same title, held at Kukje Gallery Busan in 2024. It faithfully gathers the works and installation views, offering a calm way to follow the artist's practice. The title refers to things that are light yet heavy, easy yet difficult: the objects and images Na has collected over years seem light one by one, but as memory accumulates, they grow dense and weighty. The catalogue includes the SET, Piece, and Found Composition series alongside recent works re-editing everyday visual language, with texts by the art critic Yung Bin Kwak and Bryony Dawson.
Alongside the standard catalogue, a limited edition of 30 copies is produced, each containing an original work made in the spirit of the Found Composition series, making it both a catalogue and a work to be collected in its own right.
Oblique Time is the catalogue for Na Kim's solo exhibition at the KAIST Art Museum in March 2026. Staged on the museum's rooftop, opened to the public for the first time, the exhibition explored a sense of time experienced at a different density with each passing moment, shaped by the wind, the light, and the movements of the viewer. The accompanying essay by Jee Young Maeng, "How to Layer Moments of Looking," traces the artist's path from SET to the present exhibition, attending closely to the invisible layers that have quietly accumulated beneath her seemingly simple forms.
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