Artist whose interest was artistic protagonists at odds with the ideologies of their times, their response being aesthetic rather than political resistance. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1995, and the Royal College of Art, 2000. Kiaer was chosen by Francesco Bonami to exhibit at Manifesta 3, in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, 2000, then Pier Luigi Tazzi, co-curator of Documenta X, invited him to show new work in An Empty Spot to Stay, Watou, Belgium, 2001. In that year Asprey Jacques gave Kiaer his first solo exhibition, largely comprising work made in response to a six-month stay in Seoul, South Korea, earlier that year. Kiaer created models, paintings, drawings and found objects based on Yang Paeng Son, the sixteenth-century Confucian scholar who lived mostly in exile.