2021–22
Postgraduate studies, State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, with Prof. Tatjana Doll
BHIMA GRIEM *1987
My artistic practice emerges from concrete social situations and their internal tensions. It is not observational but involved. Everyday routines, language, and institutional structures form the starting point — contexts in which power, conformity, and exclusion are embedded. These conditions are not illustrated but exposed through subtle shifts and precise interventions.
At the center is the production of public space: who is allowed to speak, who is heard, and under what conditions. Materials, images, texts, and bodies are used to unsettle their assumed neutrality. Rather than mediation, the work seeks friction; rather than consensus, it insists on the discomfort of taking a clear stance within contradictory realities.
Art is understood here as a risky practice. It pursues proximity rather than distance and accepts ambiguity and unease as productive states. Its force lies in persistence — insisting on precision and responsibility where looking away would be easier.
EDUCATION
2019–20
Master Student, University of Fine Arts Braunschweig, with Prof. Olav Christopher Jenssen
2011–18
Fine Arts/Painting, Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, with Prof. Werner Liebmann
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2025
Die Mutter / 25 JERNAX, Exhibition as part of the parallel program of the Steirischer Herbst, PrekArte, Graz
Rauchzeichen aus der Drehtür, Group exhibition featuring Chris Corda and Dan Perjovschi, among others, Memphis, Linz
JERNAX – JERNAX in Kassel, Solo exhibition, Galerie Feiertag, Kassel
Kapitalismus 2024
Still painting, noch am malen!?, Einzelausstellung im Haus6, Worpswede
allright/wing?, group exhibition and flyer action, among others at Kunstverein Hannover, Neue Nachbarschaft Berlin, and Avtonomi Akadimia, Athens
OIS Avantgarde, exhibition and performance for Steirischer Herbst, Graz, with Petros Leivados and Alexander Konopka
Metalmorph, group exhibition at Schau Fenster, Berlin, with Andreas Hachulla, Marco Schmitt, Justina Los
Retreat, group exhibition at Culterim Gallery, Berlin, with Julia Kiehlmann, Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Lisa Götze
Freundschaft 2023
FREUNDSCHAFT Scheiss Kapitalisten, exhibition for Steirischer Herbst at PrekArte — Rösselmühle, Graz Die letzten tragen die Fliegen raus, group exhibition at KW/R Artspace, Bremen, with Daniel von Bothmer, Stefanie von Schröter
Überwindungen, group exhibition at the 3rd Worpswede Art Festival, Galerie Altes Rathaus, Worpswede, with Julia Eichler
Eat the artist, group exhibition for Kill the galleries — Sellerie Weekend at Stay Hungry Project Space, Berlin, with Michel Aniol, Meike Kuhnert
Grün — Art on the Climate Catastrophe, group exhibition at Bar Müller, Berlin, with Joulia Strauss, Carola Spadoni, Claus Föttinger
Arche 2022
ARCHE INDORF_OUTDORF, group exhibition at MOPA Bremen
Net flix zwerk, solo exhibition at Keller III, Hanover
No Revolution this time, exhibition during Documenta 15 at Stellwerk Kassel Angst vor dem eigenen Werk, solo exhibition at Galerie Altes Rathaus, Worpswede
2052 — Art on the Climate Catastrophe, group exhibition at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, with Monica Bonvicini, Jonathan Monk, Joulia Strauss, Shila Khatami
Distopian Catwalk, exhibition for Steirischer Herbst at verMöBL XXL, Graz
Nur festsache, group exhibition at Schau Fenster, Berlin, with Rozbeh Asmani, Thomas Judisch, Aram Radomski
TEACHING
PROJECTS
PUBLICATIONS
2025
Initiator of a partnership between the Worpswede Artists’ Houses and Villa Massimo Rome/Olevano
Organization of the Worpswede Artists’ Houses Summer Festival with an extensive art and cultural program
2024
One-week research residency at Villa Massimo, Rome
2023
Production of the opera Die Lebenden by Petros Leivados at the Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover
Organization of RAUSKOMMEN, a one-week creative holiday camp for children aged 8–12, Bremen/Worpswede
2022/2023
Lectureship City // Country // Practice 2.0: Alternative Working Methods — A DIY Seminar, University of the Arts Bremen
2022
Publikation — Reclaim Your City BITTE LEBN Urbane Kunst und Subkultur in Berlin 2003–2021 - ISBN 978-3-86241-479-6
2021/22
Lectureship City/Country/Practice: Alternative Working Methods — A DIY Seminar, University of the Arts Bremen
Since 2021
Co-initiator of Atelier Haus6 in Worpswede and board member of Folge 6 e. V.
Since 2020
Artistic co-director of the Worpswede Artists’ Houses e. V.
2018
Artist residency Dark City, Klagenfurt
Artist residency at the Worpswede Artists’ Houses