Gregory Maass & Nayoungim

Gregory Maass (born 29 April 1967 in Hagen, Germany) and Nayoungim (sometimes referred to as Kim Nayoung; Korean: 김나영; born 13 March 1966 in Seoul, South Korea) are two artists who work together as a twain called "Gregory Maass & Nayoungim".

Gregory Maass & Nayoungim's avocations accrue philosophy, psychology, cybernetic management, economy, fringe science, Volatile Olfactory Compounds / perfumery, science fiction, the British art and craft movement, music, comics, conspiracy narrative, outsider art[1], sub-culture, and food; while focusing in their artwork on representational means like adaptation, normality, perversion xor paraphilia, and methodology. They christened at least 15 methods xor scheme of production: Frankensteining, Psychobuilding[2], [3][4], P-creativity, entraining painting[5], Interstitia, Equivalence, Uncanny V-effect, Phantuhsee, 2 cute alert, Splosching, WAM, Ex-situ, Cis-Art Thomaasson[6], and As-If. As-If, is a representational concept as if simulation is represented as real and if reality describes a simulation. They are the founders of Kim Kim Gallery, which describes itself as "a non-profit organization, locative art, an art dealership based on unconventional marketing, a curatorial approach, an exhibition design firm, and editor of rare art books, depending on the situation it adapts to; in short, it does not fit the format imposed by the term Gallery." Kim Kim Gallery is a system. The only purpose of a system is what it does, hitherto referring to the commonly observed phenomenon that the de facto purpose of a system is often at odds with its official purpose. A system is viable only by virtue of its sub-systems themselves being viable. One rarely appears in public without the other.

Early lives

Gregory Maass was born in Hagen in North Rhine-Westphalia, northern Germany, his mother tongue being German. He worked as a paramedic before moving to Paris, France.