Andrey Ivanov

Working under the name of Kium, the Ukraine-born, Canada-raised, and Berlin-based artist collaborates with spaces, communities, senses, and rituals to build experiences that give us a pause, and a space to expand that pause into an opening for personal connection.

He started swimming in the waters of immersive art in 2015. His first installation, Unbounded, explored the potential of storytelling without words or images. The second, Escape velocity, was an attempt to understand the connection between motion and emotion, drawing inspiration from movement and dance. The third, Digital lands, offered a glimpse of the experiences that can be engineered by fusing light, motion and sound into a single conscious medium through real-time generated visuals.

Amoeba (kwia, Berlin) is a piece set up in the heart of the open-minded, queer and creative community in Berlin, a permanent installation that shapes the space and the type of conversations that happen within it. It supported scent experiences, breathwork sessions and the healing process we call “going out in a bar with friends”.

The latest prototypes attempt to dive deeper into rituals, breathwork, light and scent through a collaboration with his partner, scent artist and breathwork coach Kim Gerlach.