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COMPLEX by Kim Asendorf

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Soigoethe1bangkok

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The exhibition Complex at the Goethe-Institut Thailand in Bangkok on April 1-2, 2025, is Kim Asendorf’s first show in Southeast Asia and his first retrospective, covering the years from 2021 until the beginning of 2025. [The exhibition was planned for March 29–30, but was postponed due to the earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand on March 28, 2025.] Unfolding across various spaces within the Goethe-Institut in Soi Goethe 1, Bangkok, the exhibition encompasses some of Asendorf’s seminal works. Among the series on display are Monogrid (2021), one of his ﬁrst blockchain-based works, which establishes a minimal yet mesmerizing aesthetic with shifting grids and pixelated black-and-white patterns that evoke the language of early computer art. The series will be installed at the Goethe-Institut as an audiovisual, multi-channel version. Sabotage (2022) visualizes the interplay between order and chaos, with rows shifting and a saboteur moving pixels to manipulate patterns of grids, lines, and gradients, producing ever-changing arrangements. Alternate (2023) shows a growing complexity in compositional layering and color interplay with pulsing glitch effects and dynamic distortion. PXL DEX (January 2025) extends his abstract animations into architectonic, dense and object-like 3D systems. Leading up to the exhibition, Kim Asendorf led a workshop on code-based digital art. The retrospective marks the beginning of a series of exhibitions and workshops on digital art at the Goethe-Institut in Bangkok over the coming years. This poster has been created by Kim Asendorf for his solo exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Thailand in Bangkok and is offered as a limited edition to visitors attending the exhibition in person. About Kim Asendorf: Kim Asendorf is one of the most prominent artists in the renaissance of code-based digital art. Asendorf was trained as an industrial electrician. He studied computer science at the Technical University of Bremen and Media Art at the School of Art in Kassel (Germany). Since almost 20 years he has developed a distinctive aesthetic and artistic identity, consistently evolving the boundaries of digital art. Since 2021, he has predominantly worked with moving visual systems which are complex, absorbing, pulsing and mesmerizing. His work has been showcased at institutions such as the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (Exhibition Electric Op), MoMA’s postcard series, Transmediale (Berlin), ZKM Karlsruhe, Eyebeam (NYC), Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam), and more. The release on Highlight is made available by the collective Creatorsgarten, Bangkok, in partnership with Kim Asendorf and Goethe-Institut Thailand.