林真金
Kim Lim
林真金（1936～1997）是一位华裔英籍新加坡艺术家，亦是二战后第一代前往英国接受艺术教育的离散与移民艺术家。1954 年，她从新加坡前往伦敦，就读于圣马丁艺术学院，随后进入斯莱德美术学院深造。
在其职业生涯中，林真金在雕塑创作的同时也不断探索版画与绘画，驾轻就熟地运用材料与技艺，游走于这些领域之间。尽管她的审美感知不断发展演变，但其作品始终贯穿着她对抽象语言，以及光、空间与韵律特质的持久关注。
在英国生活的岁月里，林真金始终抗拒着那些常被用来框定她人生与作品的文化符码。作为一名在男性主导的艺术世界中工作的外籍女性艺术家，她拒绝让他人以狭隘的视角来定义她的艺术。她的创作实践是在借鉴与抗拒主导性的欧美极简主义与抽象话语之间取得的一种平衡。
通过在欧洲、东亚与东南亚的广泛旅行，林真金在她所接受的正规教育之外得到了进一步滋养，汲取多样化的创作灵感，形成了她独特的视觉语言。在旅途中，林真金沉浸于她所遇见的多样物质文化与建筑遗迹之中。她的艺术创作则反映了其跨文化经验与审美感知。这一独特的路径使她在生前便获得了本地与国际艺术界的认可。尽管在她英年早逝后的一段时间里，她的作品曾一度被忽视，但近年来在新加坡国家美术馆（2024～2025）、赫普沃斯・韦克菲尔德美术馆（2023～2024）、泰特不列颠美术馆（2020～2021）等重要机构的展览，已重新激发起全球性的关注，凸显了她丰富的艺术实践在当今依然具有的现实意义与深远共鸣。
UCCA 沙丘美术馆将于 2025 年 10 月举办林真金在中国大陆的首次机构个展 “枕水漱石”，全面呈现艺术家的雕塑与版画创作，旨在展现她毕生致力于跨越文化界限的探索。
Kim Lim (1936-1997) was a British-Singaporean artist of Chinese descent. She belonged to the first generation of diaspora and immigrant artists who moved to the United Kingdom after the Second World War to pursue art education. In 1954, she left Singapore for London to study at the St. Martin’s School of Fine Art and later at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Throughout her career, Lim pursued printmaking and drawing in tandem with her sculptural work, moving between these disciplines with material and technical agility. Although her aesthetic sensibilities evolved, her works are connected by her enduring interest in the language of abstraction and the qualities of light, space, and rhythm.
During her years in Britain, Lim resisted the cultural signifiers often used to frame her life and work. As a foreign female artist working in a male-dominated art world, she refused to let others define her art through narrow lenses. Her practice results from a balance between references and resistance to dominant Euro-American discourses on Minimalism and abstraction.
Enriching her formal education through her extensive travels across Europe, East Asia, and Southeast Asia, Lim drew from diverse sources of inspiration to develop a distinctive visual language. Immersed in the diverse material cultures and architectural sites she encountered during her journeys, Lim’s art reflects her transcultural experiences and sensibilities. This unique approach earned her recognition within local and international art circles during her lifetime. Although Lim’s work was overlooked for some time following her untimely passing, recent major institutional shows, such as those at Tate Britain (2020-2021) and Hepworth Wakefield (2023-2024), have sparked a global revival, underscoring the continued relevance and resonance of her rich artistic practice today.
UCCA Dune will present Kim Lim’s first institutional solo exhibition in mainland China, “Water Rests, Stone Speaks,” in October 2025, offering a comprehensive survey of the artist’s sculptural and print works, which reflect her lifelong quest to transcend cultural boundaries.