page_title: Kim Kim Gallery
section_title: Douglasism
hierarchical_section_title: Kim Kim Gallery / History 2008 - 2013 / Douglasism
caption_attribution_description: English: Douglas Park during a reading of "A nigh-on compulsory cliché" at the Betsy Trotwood Pub in London, July 2012
context_page_description: Kim Kim Gallery is a contemporary art gallery run by Gregory Maass & Nayoungim, a German-Korean artist duo. The Gallery was founded at the Market Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2008. It describes itself as "a non-profit organization, locative art, an art dealership based on unconventional marketing, a curatorial approach, an exhibition design firm, and editor of rare artist books, depending on the situation it adapts to; in short, it does not fit the format imposed by the term Gallery".Clemens Krümmel writes, "This begins with the excess of dis-identificatory self-reference in creative dialogue with the institution Kim Kim Gallery, along with corporate identity and advertising products and a mania borrowed from Martin Kippenberger for 'great' work or exhibition titles".
  Kim Kim Gallery is an institution which does not solely function in a gallery context, but through self-awareness evaluation and adaptation of KKG´s structure to varying spatial, financial, and esthetic circumstances.
context_section_description: Douglasism is a term deriving from the name of the contemporary British artist Douglas Park.
  Douglas Park is in his own words "born in 1972, UK visual artist, writer (of literary prose and critical essays, both mostly art connected), exhibition curator and multiple practices and roles combined."
  Douglas Park is a polyvalent artist, actor, narrator, writer, curator. He has a vast but strangely intangible oeuvre of great humanism. 
  These works often displayed by, or are co-created with Douglas Park.
  Douglasism provides a deeper insight into the working methods, perspectives and traits of work by and with Douglas Park.  The origin of the term "Douglasism" lies in a title of a show curated by the late Piers Wardle aka Lewis Draper. Kim Kim Gallery adopted this title and consider Douglasism as a many-layered perspective on the totality of the creative activity of Douglas Park. The term “Douglasism” compares to political movements and art movements of the 19th and early 20th century. It is not solely the work of Douglas Park but also engulfs the works of many other artists, with whom Douglas Park works up to the present.
  Contributing artists included among others: Claire Fontaine 
  , Nico Dockx, Aeon Rose, Jan Mast, Richard Crow, Mark Aerial Waller, Christine Mitrentse, Monika K. Adler, Olive Martin, Anthony Gross, Michelle Naismith, Gideon Cube Sherman, Cel Crabeels, Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, Owen Piper.
caption: Douglas Park
    reading "A nigh-on compulsory cliché" 
   At the Betsy Trotwood Pub, London, July 2012
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