Moalis

“I want my paintings to provoke imagination and raise questions, because the unresolved, the fragmentary, and the ambiguous come closest to the essence of our reality.”

Kim Köster was born and raised in the north German village of Worpswede. Growing up in this artists’ colony, surrounded by the dark woods and moorland, fed into his artistic ambitions and inspired his interest in melancholic, dark or eerie themes. He entered the global urban arts area at a young age, traveling across Europe, Australia, Canada, and South America, gradually making a name for himself through his work in derelict buildings, painting characters that seemingly interact with the dilapidated environment around them, blending art with architectural elements.

Since 2020 Kim shifted his work environment from abandoned buildings to the atelier, predominantly working with paint on canvas. The work is developed in series, taking one motif and one medium, and creating a range of individual works within the given parameters. He continues to be interested in a variety of mediums to express his artistic ideas, both abstract and figurative, analogue and digital.

He currently spends his time between Berlin and Ein Ding der Möglichkeit (Salderatzen), where he has his own atelier.