Rim Dong Sik thinks about nature, life and art from an integrated perspective and has built a unique art world that communicates and unites with the purity of nature. Archives serve as means of documenting the artist’s daily life and expanding the world of imagination, not only through recording memories but becoming an artwork itself through the nature of performance. In the 1980s, he pioneered a new direction for outdoor field art (nature art), contributed to the founding of the Geumgang Contemporary Art Festival (1980) and the Outdoor Field Art Research Society (1981). Since returning to Korea in 1993 after spending ten years studying in Germany, he has carried out the Art and Village Project, which represents an innovative form of community art. His solo exhibitions include Attempt at Art (Kunstproben) (BATIG Gallery, Hamburg, 1987-1988), Sound of a Good Picture (Der Gute Ton Zum Schonen Bild) (KUNSTHAUS, Hamburg, 1989), Inside Out Outside In (Arko Art Center, Seoul, 2005), Dongbang Boy Exploration Exhibition (Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, 2016), Rise Up, Rim Dong Sik (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2020). He has participated in many group exhibitions including Media_City Seoul 2000, City: Between 0 and 1 and Subway Project: Public Furniture.
