We have had the honour to welcome the most inspiring speakers during the 24 months of our Amsterdam events. As June marks our 2-year anniversary, we decided to look back and see what our speaker on Childhood, artist Kim Demåne, has been up to recently.
Since speaking at our event in January 2014, Kim’s been focused on illustration, painting and sculpture. His occasional commercial tasks have become less and less, and he now works as a full-time artist. Exceptions are his projects with music label Golden Best Records, for whom he has created posters. He also illustrates for the Amsterdam-based music organisation ABSNFC – below a detail of his poster for their event at Canvas on the 12th of June.
A few months back he swapped Amsterdam for his childhood sceneries of Blekinge in Sweden, when he was invited to take part in Konstrundan, an annual art route throughout the Blekinge province, as a guest artist:
Recently Kim has also taught workshops in his previous high school. What started off as a one-off street art workshop for local teenagers, grew into a month-long drawing class. This is something Kim can see himself do more of in the future: “Not only did it make me feel 10 years younger, but also 10 years older. I really enjoyed playing the role of an “inspirator”….. with the mindset that if I did my job well, I can play a great part in their creative future.”
This summer Kim has been invited to take part in O15 at the Ostrale Centre for Contemporary Art in Dresden and the Kosmopolite Art Tour in Belgium. If you happen to visit these fantastic events, be sure to have a peek at Kim’s murals!
We are sending Kim’s traditional mental high-fives everyone’s way by reminding you of the importance of giving yourself time to (day)dream. Dream, create, sleep, dream some more and repeat – what better way to head to the summer months with this in mind!
All images © Kim Demåne
PS. Are you joining us on Thursday 9th of July at the brand new Hoxton Amsterdam for our special event with filmmaker and Instagrammer Phil Yisrael?
