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Karim Gamil

Poetry - Theatrics - Metaphysics

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Vision

I work at the threshold between poetry, theatrical performance, and metaphysics, exploring how experience is structured, ordered, and mediated.

I practice art as a form of practical cosmology. Through acts of worldbuilding — the setting in motion of first principles — I examine how systems, institutions, and frameworks shape perception, intimacy, and judgment. I am interested in moments where these systems fracture: where lived experience exceeds the forms meant to contain it.

Creation, for me, is a way of thinking through form rather than against it. It resists pure critique and instead proposes outlines, architectures, and material gestures that confront abstraction with human presence. The work remains open-ended, unpredictable, and irreducible to intention or control.

I am drawn to the voids between language and structure, and to the fragile architectures — poetic, bureaucratic, technological — that temporarily hold experience together.

Bio

Karim Gamil was born in 1999 in Alexandria, Egypt.
In 2017, he began his studies in Philosophy and Art History at the University of Heidelberg. During this time, he gained his first theatrical experiences as an assistant director at Theaterhaus G7 in Mannheim and later interned at the Nationaltheater Mannheim.

 

After completing his studies, he joined Staatstheater Nürnberg as an assistant director, where he created his first scenic works, including Krankensaal Nr. 6, Wir Gelehrten, and began writing his first dramatic texts such as Im Tempel des Schönen.

Since autumn 2023, Karim Gamil has been working as an assistant director at Staatstheater Hannover. In the 2024/25 season, he directed Die Vertretungsstunde (über)leben, which continues to tour schools all over the region of Hannover.

Starting in the 2025/26 season, he will join the Thalia Theater Hamburg as an assistant director.

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