HELLO! I’M KIMIYA FROM BERLIN

ARTIST STATEMENT

My name Kimiya comes from the word “chemistry.” And just as different elements react with one another, my work explores the encounters between color, form, and emotion.

Painting is how I respond to the world. Before I put my feelings into words, I paint them. Since childhood, I have expressed every significant emotion through art, often the ones I was afraid to speak about: love, anger, joy, injustice, grief, and fear. These images, filled with emotion and layered meanings, have always been my secret, and I love witnessing how people respond to them.

Digital painting is my primary medium. I create original works, offer limited edition prints, and work on commissioned pieces such as custom portraits. My practice exists between emotion, intuition, and observation. Through my work, I explore what it means to be human: our bodies, relationships, dreams, and everyday moments. I am particularly drawn to the nuances: the unspoken, the delicate, and the contradictory.

My images speak of intimacy, femininity, shyness, love, and the desire to see ourselves and others in our shared humanity. They do not follow predetermined rules but emerge from an inner impulse. Every artwork begins with a feeling and gradually transforms into an idea.

I work both digitally and analogue. Using tools such as the iPad, markers, acrylic paint, collage, and colored pencils. This diversity of materials is reflected in my subjects as well: intuitive, honest, and deeply personal. Color plays a central role in my work as a carrier of emotion and energy. It has always been an essential part of my life and remains the foundation of my artistic expression.

EXHIBITIONS

2026: Ph0n0l0gues, GlogauAir, Berlin - Group Exhibition

2025: Millerntor Gallery, Hamburg - Group Exhibition

2024: Meet.Frida, “Kunst schafft Demokratie”, Weimar

2023: EMPOWER TO EXPRESS, Praise Studio, Berlin - Group Exhibition

2022: BAODT ART, Hamburg- Group Exhibition

2022: Millerntor Gallery, Hamburg - Group Exhibition

2022: BAODT ART, Frankfurt - Group Exhibition

2021: Small Works, LiTE-HAUS Galerie, Berlin - Group Exhibition

2021: Ph0n0l0gues, Eight Rooms Gallery, Berlin - Group Exhibition

2021: St. Pauli 100 Blickwinkel - Group Exhibition

2018: Millerntor Gallery #8 , Posterdesign - Group Exhibition

2017: 040 Festival - Hamburg - Group Exhibition

2017: Neue Berliner Ligatur, Club der Polnischen Versager, Berlin - Group Exhibition

2017: Bungalow - ‚this is a Poster‘ , Würzburg, Group Exhibition

2017: Éspassiert x oncrete - Stilwerk, Hamburg, Group Exhibition

2016: Metropolitan Gallery Hamburg, Metropole.Kreativ.Award - Group Exhibition

2013: Foundation Year, Kaetsu Centre, Cambridge, UK - Group Exhibition

EDUCATION

2019: Bachelor of Arts, Illustration - Design Akademie Berlin

2018: Praktikum: Henning Wagenbreth, Ministerium für Illustration

2014: Universität der Künste (UDK), 1. Semester, Visuelle Kommunikation

2013: Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts, Foundation Diploma

AWARDS

2014: GOSEE AWARDS - Illustration

2014: Deutscher Jugendfotopreis, 3. Platz