Vernissage on August 12

kim? 

On Friday, August 12, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at kim? a vernissage of exhibitions:

HONZA ZAMOJSKI - solo exhibit MONUMENTAL STATUES
TAMARA ZIBNERS - solo exhibit MIMI'S DIARY
LAURA PRIKULE and EVA VĒVERE - exhibition POETIC ROBOTISM: AQUATOPIA

August 12 - September 18, 2011


HONZA ZAMOJSKI - MONUMENTAL STATUES
Dozen of statues related to titles that together create an abstract poem (listing: "Pissing", "Shadows", "Mathematics", "Leftovers", "Camping", "Excitement", "Erection", "Post-office", "Clan (WU)", "Sugar", "Reflection", "Generation") will be accompanied by a monocolor zine with shapes immanent in the space for the exhibition to-be. Repetition, reproduction, human scale versus object scale will join in unison of visual utopia of (seemingly) senseless thinking. At the end of the day "Monumental Statues" will not provide an easy answer, not even it will be frankly positive to react on your how's made questions. After exhibition ends, sculptures will undergo a calm liquidation as “they will be just ‘projects’ made of simple materials”.

Honza Zamojski (1981) lives and works in Poznań, Poland. As the artist himself has pointed out, he creates his works around several complementary notions such as chance, order, repetition and temporariness. Zamojski has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. His first experience with Latvian art scene was in 2010, when Zamojski had a double exhibition together with a Latvian artist Miks Mitrēvics titled “Not There” at the LETO Gallery in Warsaw. Honza Zamojski also works as a curator and was a co-founder of the Starter Gallery in Poznań, now located in Warsaw. He runs a small publishing house MORAVA. Zamojski’s publications will be on view at the kim? library during the exhibition.

TAMARA ZIBNERS - MIMI'S DIARY
Story of “Mimi’s Diary” began on October 4, 1944, when communists were approaching Latvia and Tamara Zibner’s grandparents, Mimi and Pipi, together with a newborn son left their home in Saldus. As refugees they spent five years in Germany, ruined during the war, until they finally moved to the USA. Zibners has dedicated last five years to careful reconstruction of her grandparent’s story of exile and immigration. She shows it through photographs and collages that are complemented with fragments of Mimi’s diary she were writing from 1943 to 1971.

Tamara Lynne Zibners (1982) was born in Sacramento, California. Her main field of interest is photography, but the artist also works with drawing, video art and music. Zibners has graduated from The University of California gaining a bachelor degree in arts. At present she studies in MA program in the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. The artist has been participating in exhibitions since 2004. In 2007 she set up an exhibition “Portrait of Andrejsala” in Riga, Latvia.

LAURA PRIKULE and EVA VĒVERE - POETIC ROBOTISM: AQUATOPIA
“Poetic Robotism”, project series of Laura Prikule and Eva Vēvere, focuses on the architecture of time and place, systemic and spontaneous construction and deconstruction of different aspects of life. Interactive installation “Aquatopia” set up in the exhibition room at kim? focuses attention on the explosive/violent interaction between nature and the postindustrial society. Water is used as a symbol of civilization's consciousness. The wave of 3-D pixels, cubes or hexahedrons is both a potential flow of space in time and vice versa. The project lightens up sunny and dark aspects of life, the obverse and the reverse, thus creating environment for symbiosis in the exhibition room. During the contemporary culture forum “White Night”, on September 10, the expansion of “Aquatopia”: an installation made by Laura and Eva, “Navigation Track” will be presented.

The artists work in the territory of a former factory VEF, take part in art events of different kind both in Latvia and behind its borders. Since 2009 have been working together on the projects of “Poetic Robotism”, different events and performances, have exhibited their works at the Gallery 21, the Festival of the Contemporary Art “Survival Kit 2” and at an exhibition “Station of Experiments Laimdota”, in Cēsis,“Performance Art Now Tallinn # 2” et al. The installation “Aquatopia” at kim? is the 6th episode in this cycle.

During the opening - dj set at the Restaurant Kitchen!

Support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, State Culture Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, The United States Embassy Riga, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Riga, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Phyllis Muth Scholarship for Fine Arts, World Wide Fund for Nature, Institute for environmental solutions, 4 Plus, PB.LV, VEF historical museum, fineArtPrint.lv, EPSON, Hanza Hotel, Dirty Deal Café, FK magazine, Kolonna, VKN, Studija, ¼ Satori, Radio Naba, TVNET, Valmiermuižas alus, Restaurant Kitchen