Kim Bode is interested in landscapes not only as material and physical spaces but also as collective ideas and political terrains considering both „natural“ and artificial environments and the ways they intersect, overlap, and shape each other. 
Within this framework their practice encompass a variety of media, including sculpture, sound, photography and artistic research. Often incorporating different materials and manifesting as spatial installations their work explores the concept of transformation and adaptation at individual and collective levels. Landscapes, bodies and materials are seen as fluid and mutable, continuously reshaping and becoming otherwise. Queerness informs this approach, exploring how beings, communities, and environments are using modes of relational symbioses, care and co-existence that challenge fixed hierarchies and foster alternative ways of being, collective support and vitality. Through this lens Bode treats artistic practice playfully, as a way to make these processes perceptible: highlighting how transformation, cooperation, and care operate together as strategies for resilience and survival in rapidly changing ecological and social systems.

Bode’s research currently focuses on underwater, wetland, and marginal environments. Field recordings and practices of listening serve as methods of attunement to these surroundings. The sonic explorations intersect with textual, visual, and sculptural practices, which develop in continuous discursive relation to one another.

Kim Bode lives and works in Berlin and is the initiator of the bureau of transitioning landscapes. Within this framework and further collective participation at District * School Without Center and AG Art Worker Solidarity they co-develop hybrid forms of making, listening and thinking that question dominant narratives of cultural practices, foster relational modes of inhabiting the world, and open space for intersectional ways of co-existing. 

Bode studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the Iceland University of the Arts and the Berlin University of the Arts, graduating as Meisterschüler*in (MFA Hons) of Prof. Monica Bonvicini. Their work has been presented in institutional and exhibition contexts including Museum of Photography (Berlin), Floating University Berlin, Galerie im Turm (Berlin), Lothringer13 Halle (Munich) and Galerija Škuc (Ljubljana), alongside independent and artist-run venues such as Frontviews at HAUNT and Flutgraben in Berlin. Further contexts range from the Britzenale Biennale (Berlin) and the Isla Verde Festival (Caribbean Film and Environment Festival, Cuba) to exhibitions in Reykjavík. They have received several grants, awards and international residencies, among them the Karl Hofer Scholarship, Neustart Kultur funding and the Presentation Fund of the Berlin Senate, in addition to residencies with the Goethe-Institut in Cuba and Vietnam, and a shortlist nomination for the IBB Prize for Photography. In addition to their artistic practice, Bode has served as jury member for the Bezirkskulturfonds Mitte (District Culture Fund, Berlin).

full curriculum vitae, list of exhibitions and portfolio upon request via an e-mail to: info [at] kimbode [dot] com.