Kim Wawer's process based practice draws from a complex circulatory sense of belonging in relationship to her own body and the landscape she is positioned in. Borderless perforated ceramic shapes are molded to the dimensions of her body: to be held, carried, and cared for as extensions of her own self, simultaneously weighing down and accompanying her.

Her specific sculptural vocabulary is evocative of porous surfaces that both separate and connect body and landscape, intimately questioning the relationship between the interior and exterior processes which generate an identity.

In Wawer’s work notions of scale, empathy and shapelessness are directly connected to her personal history of diasporic belonging in an embodied relationship to the materials she shapes, bringing together the intimate through material vocabularies that speak with universal meaning, putting forward fertile spaces for contamination.

Kim Wawer (Amsterdam, 1988) has a Bachelor of Fine Art in the field of Ceramics and Master of Interior Architecture degree from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Her works has been presented in solo and group exhibition’s at amongst others; Galleri Hulias (Oslo), Fondazione Officine Saffi (Milano), Bologna.cc(Amsterdam), de Fabriek (Eindhoven), Oude Kerk (Amstedam) and Keramiekmuseum Princessenhof (Leeuwarden). In 2024 she was nominated for the Officine Saffi Award in Milano together with 5 other Dutch ceramicist artists.