b-side is delighted to announce , a solo exhibition by Seoul-based graffiti writer Dimz.
“In redevelopment areas, graffiti interventions briefly breathe life into fading spaces, creating a sensory connection with the city. Within vast construction sites, constantly dismantled and demolished structures appear like dying inanimate matter. Yet through experimental interventions on them, they are temporarily transformed into something that feels alive.”
-Dimz, July 2025.
Dimz's works attend to fleeting moments in the urban experience, seeking gaps where a presence can be asserted. The outsider complex bred by his street practice eventually drove him to the refuge of abandoned spaces, offering distance from risk and tension. In these spaces, beyond the reach of surveillance, Dimz becomes the observer. These redevelopment zones let him organise his thoughts more freely and reconfigure his relationship to the city, a different kind of freedom and a renewed awareness of his emotional connection to the city.
Three redevelopment areas from his youth in Seoul are woven into the works here, represented in mediums of painting, zines, and a graffiti work. Within the city's cycle of disappearance and rewriting, graffiti follows in agile response, mirroring the city's shifting rhythm of construction and deconstruction. relays Dimz’s interest in how individual lives and the city itself are emotionally intertwined.
Dimz
25 July - 30 August 2026
In collaboration with Whistle
b-side
Pasar Antik Kios No. 9–10
Jalan Surabaya, Jakarta 10310
ARTIST
B. 1985
Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea
Dimz has been invested in graffiti since 2004, gradually establishing several styles over the years. Since Dimz started tattooing in 2011, he has repeatedly painted representations containing animals, plants, and characters. The artist divides and fills the wooden panel with spray and acrylic paint in distinct colors and textures, then adds specific images with markers and oil pastels.
His recent solo exhibitions include Nonphysical Evidence at Whistle (Seoul, 2025), Double Life: Uncharted Territories at MICRO SERVICE (Seoul, 2024), and Now or Never at Welcome Records (Seoul, 2021). His work has also been presented in numerous group exhibitions, including Fill-in at Whistle (Seoul, 2022), BOUNDARY at KwanHoon Gallery (Seoul, 2021), House of Vans (Guangzhou, 2014), Art on the Street – Graffiti Art at Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (Ansan, 2014), and HICHIFUKU STREET ART EXHIBITION vol.10 in Fukuoka, Japan (2013). Dimz received awards in both 2012 and 2013 in the R-16 KOREA Wall Lords competition.