kim? events in June and July

kim? 

kim? events un June and July, 2011.

EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS IN JUNE
To 19.06.:
Kaspars Groševs. “I/O. Without Enemies”
Reinis Hofmanis. “LARP”
Darja Meļņikova. “Dashing Lines and Forming Heaps”

At the last week of the exhibitions, on Thursday, June 16, from 4 to 7 p.m., we invite you to the ‘Happy Hours‘ with Darja Meļņikova and Kaspars Groševs. This event is a wonderful opportunity to meet the artists and ask questions about their art works and the concepts of the expositions.

15.06. - 19.06.
kim? yearbook "The art is all that is the case. Dialogues with Vassily in the context of kim? exhibitions 2009-2010" goes to Art Basel where it will be available at the library The Book Coop, a part of a project organized by the international network e-flux.
The Book Coop: e-flux journal & network - features art books, magazines and other types of publications from members of the journal network, a group of around 200 international art centers, art book stores and independent publishers that self-publish and distribute the print-on-demand e-flux journal.

22.06.
Following to the invitation from Ellen Blumenstein, an intependet curator from Germany, a member of the curatorial collective The Office and the curator of the Pavilion of Iceland at the 54th Venice Biennale,  kim? together with a culture theoretician Kaspars Vanags and an artist and a curator from Lithuania Juste Kostikovaite will present a lecture at Salon Populaire, in Berlin, right before the midsummer eve. The theme of this event is Bucolic Genre Today: Somewhere Between a Subtrend of Organic Lifestyle and Provincial Art. In the lecture tendencies of the bucolic gendre in the art of the Baltics and equivalent peripheral regions in Europe will be observed. The speach and discussions will be complemented with presentations of works by several artists from the Baltics.
We thank for support to airBaltic, the Latvian Museum of Photography and Anda Boluža.
The event takes place on June 22 at 8pm at Salon Populaire, Bülowstr. 90/10783, Berlin.

EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS IN JULY
1.07. kim? continues the summer season opening of new exhibitions!

2.07. - 7.08.:
Ida Pettersson. “The Vegetable Lamb and Other Ravishing Stories From the Past”
The installation by the Swedish artist is about myths and history writing, longing for nature, romance and sorrow. It contains photographs, sculptures and drawings.
Curator of the exhibition: Iliana Veinberga

21.07. 19.00 - "Tracing a Mysterios Animal", a lecture by the philosopher Jānis Taurens inspired by the exhibition of Ida Pettersson. The speach will be dedicated to  cryptozoology and theories of possible worlds.

Andrei Liankevich (Андрей Ленкевич). “Paganism”
Exposition features around 30 black-and-white photographs witnessing pagan culture that is still present in rural areas of Belarus.
Curator of the exhibition: Arnis Balčus

“Susan Sontag camp cinema”
The exhibition is a conceptual part of a summer retreat camp for artists and theoreticians. The camp is initiated by kim? takes place from 6 - 10 July. It will be set up and organized according to a small scale cinema and double feature, also known as a double bill - a motion picture industry phenomenon in  the USA, in 1930s, showing two films for the price of one. The central notional aspect of the exhibition is camp - the term which has been made actual by Susan Sontag in her work "Against Interpretation" (1962). Camp as a different concept of the surrounding environment and the borders of its interpretation, recognizing new possibilities and providing their definitions. And also how different certain social values influence our taste and views on the good and the wrong, and also how these values are defined, who has the rights to define them and who has the rights to provide new interpretations or eliminate them.
Curators of the exhibition, Egija Inzule and Zane Onckule, have invited artists, curatos and theoreticians from Latvia and other countries to participate.

The July exhibitions are kindly supported by: Ministry of Culture, State Culture Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, Nordic Culture Point, The Swedish Arts Grants Committe, Goethe-Institut Riga, The Natural History Museum of Latvia, Latvian War Museum, airBaltic, Kolonna, fineArtPrint.lv, EPSON, Lux Express, VKN, FK magazine, Radio Naba, Valmiermuižas alus, restaurant Kitchen