Kalman Pool (b.1996, China) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersection of inflatable sculpture, invented language systems, and virtual ecology. Drawing from speculative biology, Buddhist cosmology, and synthetic materials, his work examines how life, language, and identity may evolve in a post-gravity, post-human future.

Trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA) and the Royal College of Art in London (MA in Painting), Pool creates immersive environments that merge virtual forms with hand-fabricated inflatables, UV-reactive installations, and custom hieroglyphic systems. His ongoing project, Luminous Opera, is a fictional language-based universe realized through glowing shrines, floating glyphs, and spatial writing—where symbols are not read but felt.

Kalman’s large-scale works often begin in VR and are translated into physical bodies through labor-intensive stitching of bespoke TPU/PVC forms. These sealed, air-breathing structures—fragile yet monumental—challenge the boundaries between organic and synthetic, permanence and decay.

His work has been exhibited internationally at the Balloon Museum (London, Düsseldorf, Brussels, San Francisco), Saatchi Gallery (London), Christie’s (London), and Jupiter Museum of Art (Shenzhen), and commissioned by Lincoln China, Swatch and Hennessy V.S.O.P. He is a former artist-in-residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel and PLOP London.

As both artist and system-builder, Kalman Pool is constructing a future mythology—where inflatable creatures, invented scripts, and coded rituals converge into a new kind of cosmology: alive, adaptive, and written in breath.