Collection

Collection, implying questions and answers on „what is art“, is made in order to inspire and educate visitors of museum and to pique their interest. The aim is to ensure the implementation of the mission of kim?, namely, to create a possibility to see, to get to know, to feel and to understand the diversity of contemporary art and its dialectic, the regularity of processes and the uniqueness of artist’s personality, creating internationally significant institution of contemporary art, which would exhibit and interpret art works according to the criteria of high quality, meanwhile maintaining the highest level of availability and involving reciprocal dialogue with different social groups.

The basis of collection are visual art works from Latvia and Baltic sea region, created within timeframe from the end of the twentieth century until today; it also comprises a collection of foreign art. Development of the collection is implemented in cooperation with Aizkraukles Banka. International commission of experts decide on supplementing the collection in line with three major thematic groups:

CONCEPTUAL ART WORKS CREATED IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY / They reflect creative changes in using of means of art expression and in the content of message and they mark the conversion from visuality to conceptualism or from the appearance of art work to its emotional and intellectual perception.

NONCONFORMIST ART: 1960 – 1990 / It mostly reflects and responses to complexity of social and political situation that has existed behind the formally faultless Soviet façade; it has not avoided revealing the different reality, occasionally supplemented with critical message.

STRIKING REFLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART PROCESSES / Art works that sometimes go beyond the styles traditionally considered as art and involve interdisciplinary approaches: visual, social, political, psychological information, expressions and knowledge, strategies of mass media etc.

So far around 200 art works have been added to the collection of the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art. 86 works are included in the Aizkraukles Bank collection, the other works are state property and have been included in the National Museum Collection. The decision on inclusion of any works in the collection is made by an international commission of experts according to the criteria stated in the collection policy.

DOCUMENTS:

Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art Collection Policy

Regulation Concerning the Collection Commission and Scientific Council of the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art