Sara Kim Haese
The work of Sara Kim Haese (b. 1992) moves fluidly between painting, object art, and installation. After training as a graphic designer, she studied painting and printmaking at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe under Marcel Van Eeden, where she earned her Master's degree in 2024.
At the heart of Haese’s practice lies an exploration of personal memory, emotional states, and family dynamics. Her work is marked by expressive, at times raw material choices: reflective surfaces, found objects, and tactile materials encounter intense gestures and poetic image fragments. Haese transforms autobiographical experiences into visual forms that exist in the tension between vulnerability and strength. Her works often incorporate pop culture motifs, particularly aesthetics from the Y2K era and trap music.
Sara Kim Haese lives and works in Karlsruhe.
Artworks
Vita
Karlsruhe
lives and works in Karlsruhe, Atelier 78
Artistic career
Studies | AdBK Karlsruhe | Master's, Painting/Graphic Arts, Class of Marcel Van Eeden
Studies | AdBK Karlsruhe | Bachelor's, Painting/Graphic Arts, Class of Marcel Van Eeden and Pierre Knop
Training | Carl-Hofer-Schule Karlsruhe | State-certified Graphic Designer
Exhibitions (selection)
artini 2025 I Group Exhibition I Gasthof zum Schwanen, Rheinstetten (GER)
KFT Center I Group Exhibition I Orgelfabrik Karlsruhe (GER)
Komm nach Hause bevor es dunkel wird I Group Exhibition for the Sprint1 Stipendium I Studio hö, Karlsruhe (GER)
Bank in World | Group Exhibition | Dingle (IRL)
HAESE/LENK - Aldi meets Storage Unit with Steffen Lenk | Freeport Purgatory Karlsruhe (GER)
Bloom | Group Exhibition | Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague (NL)
Kunstfreundetreff | Group Exhibition | Alte Hackerei Karlsruhe (GER)
zwielicht | Group Exhibition | die Funke Karlsruhe (GER)
Förderpreis Gopea | Marstall, Museum Burg Bentheim (GER)
hallo! kato I Gruppenausstellung zur Eröffnung I kato Karlsruhe (GER)
Komm in mein Kinderzimmer | Solo Show, Graduation Exhibition | AdBK Karlsruhe (GER)
Kunst im Klub | Group Exhibition | THE 19th Gut Scheibenhardt, Summer Exhibition | AdBK Karlsruhe (GER)
tekart | Group Exhibition | Fleischmarkthalle Karlsruhe (GER)
Bittersüß | Group Exhibition | V8 Karlsruhe (GER)
Talking Back | Group Exhibition | AdBK Karlsruhe (GER)
Krik?! Krak! | Group Exhibition | Badischer Kunstverein e. V. Karlsruhe (GER)
Sommergeflüster | Group Exhibition | Oqbo Galerie Berlin (GER)
Summer Exhibition | AdBK Karlsruhe (GER)
friendly caution | Group Exhibition | Orgelfabrik Durlach (GER)
Member Exhibition | Badischer Kunstverein e. V. Karlsruhe (GER)
Digital Presentations | rundgang.io and Rundgang of AdBK (GER)
Bachelor Exhibition | AdBK Karlsruhe (GER)
Publications
Art Kunstmagazin Issue 04/2024 April Edition, Section "Starter" pp. 100-101
SALON Verlag & Edition #23 - six pages from the series "Komm in mein Bettchen"
Print media for the Summer Exhibition 2022 and Friends' Circle Brochure AdBK | "Gutes Kind 2020"
Magazin Staubhaus Issue 10, p. 51 and Issue 12, pp. 94-95
Bibliography
Badische Neueste Nachrichten, Karlsruhe | „Europa wird auf dem Schachbrett gespielt“, 14.01.2020
Badische Neueste Nachrichten, Karlsruhe | „Lippenstift und grimmiger Tiger“, 20.12.2017
Collections
Portfolio III Class of Marcel van Eeden | Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Portfolio II Class of Marcel van Eeden | Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Portfolio I Class of Marcel van Eeden | Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Awards & Scholarships
Stipendium „Sprint1“ der Hoepfner Stiftung
Förderpreis Gopea I Marstall, Museum Burg Bentheim