Karim Boumjimar (b. 1998, Malaga, Spain) is an artist whose work examines social hierarchies by exploring the ties between nature and identity. Rejecting human-centred perspectives, Boumjimar embraces hybridisation, underlining how society is entangled with surrounding ecologies.
Across drawings and ceramics, bodies, myths, and environments merge in choreographies of desire, power, and vulnerability. Figures appear raw and hallucinatory, held in complete isolation from the external world - metamorphic beings that are simultaneously feminine, masculine, and animalistic, emerging with the fluidity of pigments, inks, and watercolours that echo the flesh.
Identities cross-pollinate, boundaries loosen, and bodies conglomerate, released from hierarchical constraints. Boumjimar portrays this through works that function as stages for imagined forms of coexistence, drawing attention to marginalised communities and the systems that constrain them, exposing social and ecological harm. Through depictions of chaos and intimacy, and catalysed by affect and desire, his work imagines alternative modes of coexistence. Here, bodies survive extractive cultural pressures, moving, merging, and becoming worlds liberated from fixed binaries and rigid categories of identity. His works celebrate the diversity of sexual, racial, and ecological experiences, revealing a universe where humanity is plural, porous, and endlessly capable of transformation - a phantasmatic verification of certainties.
Karim Boumjimar holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, and a BFA from Central Saint Martins, London.