Louis Le Kim
Louis Le Kim was born in 1990 in Paris and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and at Villa Arson in Nice, France. Le Kim’s paintings are deeply influenced by his explorations of abandoned and active industrial sites—steel mills, electric and nuclear power plants, mines, oil fields—as well as subterranean urban networks, frontlines, archaeological sites, and hostile natural environments such as deserts and volcanic regions.
Louis Le Kim is participating in the fifth edition of the Reiffers Art Prize, Tinkering with the unknown.
Exhibition view of "Tinkering with the unknown"
Louis Le Kim, 2026
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Louis Le Kim, 2026
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Louis Le Kim, 2026Biography
Le Kim transposes these architectural fragments, gathered over the course of his explorations, into nmonumental and fictional environments set within deserted landscapes.
Louis Le Kim’s works provoke a strange kind of vertigo—an attraction to the sublime tinged with unease—reflecting both our thirst for spectacle and our growing fear of collapse.
In October 2025, he presented his first solo exhibition at Galerie Sultana, Paris.