Kim-Tobias Helbig

In addition to painting and drawing, his artistic practice also extends into the fields of video and text. This is where the connection lies with the philosophical project ‘What is the question?’, a book of which many versions have been produced annually since 2008.

A constant feature of Kim Helbig’s visual work is portrait painting and drawing.

Curriculum Vitae

1989: born in Künzelsau

2009 – 2011: Studied Philosophy and German Studies at the University of Stuttgart

2011 – 2015:   Studied Art Education at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts

under Silvia Bächli, Drawing and Painting Class2015

– 2016:   Postgraduate studies in Fine Art at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts

under John Bock, Video/

Sculpture

class2016–

2017: Studied to become a German teacher at the University of Stuttgart

Since 2018:          Teaching at a grammar school in the subjects of Fine Art, German and

PhilosophySince 2023: PhD at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts on the topic of ‘Repetition in Painting’ under Carolin Meister

Exhibitions/Performances

2026 Painting performance ‘LautMalerey’ accompanying Tobias Wolber’s organ concert at the Stiftskirche

in

Feuchtwangen

2026 Solo exhibition ‘Condition of the Possibility of the Tortoise’, Kulturwerk

Crailsheim

2025 Group exhibition at Kulturwerk

Crailsheim

2025 Luis Leu Karlsruhe: Trio exhibition ‘Videos’ with Hans Peter Ploner and Konrad Jurko

2023 & 2024 Painting performances in public spaces in Crailsheim to piano improvisations by Tobias Wolber

2022 Kulturkiosk Stuttgart: Performance ‘Aus-Ein-Ander’, between the pieces of the ‘Delay’ concert evening with AAA---AAA

2019 HMDK Stuttgart: Video projections ‘dass ein Wunder geschiiiiiiiiiiieht’

2017 Bar Romantica, Stuttgart: Performance with Pony Says, Contemporary Music Trio

2017 Reading at the Frankfurt Book Fair: Poetry Library of the Society for Contemporary Poetry e.V.,

2016 ‘Sent from my iPhone’, group exhibition, Fleischmarkthalle, Karlsruhe

, 2016 Contemporary Art Weekend, Baden-Baden: Painting performance with Lorenz

Boegle

2016                              ‘Beat Farming Area 23’, group exhibition in Wolf Pehlke’s former studio, Karlsruhe

2016 Venus Bar, Karlsruhe, reading with video projection by Immo Fattroth

2016                               “Karlstraße”, group exhibition, Temporäre Galerie Karlstraße

,

Karlsruhe

, 2016 “Narcissus, Kept His Feet on the Ground”, group exhibition at Orgelfabrik Durlach,

2015 & 2016 Reading at the Leipzig Book Fair: Poetry Library of the Society for Contemporary Poetry e.V.

, 2015 “Between the Pages”, group exhibition, Badische Landesbibliothek, curated by Ernst

Caramelle,

2015                               “Pentaposition”, group exhibition at the Orgelfabrik Durlach,

2015 Graduation exhibition at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts