Kim? participates in ART WARSAW VILLA RÓŻ
21.5.2026 - 24.5.2026
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre is pleased to announce participation in ART WARSAW VILLA RÓŻ, presenting works by Latvian artist Ieva Putniņa!
ART WARSAW VILLA RÓŻ
Aleja Róż 1, Warsaw
Preview: May 21
Dates: May 22–24
The fair is open Thursday from 4pm–7pm and Friday–Sunday from 12pm–7pm. Admission is free.
If you would like to receive a PDF with the presented works, please contact darta.purvlice@kim.lv.
ART WARSAW VILLA RÓŻ is the latest edition of the international art fair organised by Art Warsaw, taking place in a 19th-century palace at Aleja Róż 1 in Warsaw. Continuing the successful format of previous editions, including NADA Villa Warsaw and Art Warsaw Miodowa, the fair brings together more than 50 contemporary galleries from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. A defining characteristic of Art Warsaw lies in its embedding of contemporary art within unconventional urban spaces. Rather than adopting a neutral white cube model, the fair unfolds within architecturally and politically charged locations throughout the city. This year’s venue, Villa Róż, combines the grandeur of a 19th-century Neo-Renaissance palace with the remnants of its former function as the British Embassy during the Cold War, creating a setting shaped by historical tension, secrecy, bureaucracy, and memory.
This year Kim? presents works by Ieva Putniņa from the series POWER STATION. Putniņa’s painting practice combines intensive studio work, observations from everyday life, and long-term engagement with the natural environment. Her paintings often evoke surrealist and hyperrealist traditions, where moments detached from seemingly tangible reality become key to interpreting the scenes depicted.
The artist’s works are populated by peculiar and emotionally charged figures, objects, and situations emerging from fragments of lived experience, collected observations, and research into local crafts traditions and natural forms. Her painting language is characterised by heightened attention to detail, material sensitivity, and a precise rendering of movement, texture, and atmosphere.
Ieva Putniņa (b. 1991) is a Latvian artist working in painting, animation, film, and performance. While her visual language often recalls historical artistic traditions, her paradoxical treatment of subject matter firmly situates the work within a contemporary context. Recent exhibitions and projects include presentations at Rainis and Aspazija Museum, Gallery 427, Low, Maboca Festival, Ag Gallery, Riga Circus, SIC Gallery in Helsinki, the exhibition Last Tale organised by LOOK! and Meno Niša, and An Average Comet at Harkawik Gallery, New York. In 2025, Putniņa became the first recipient of the Vija Celmins Foundation Grant.
ART WARSAW VILLA RÓŻ participants include Galeria Plan B (Cluj-Napoca/Berlin), Suprainfinit Gallery (Bucharest), Hunt Kastner (Prague), Voloshyn Gallery (Kyiv/Miami), Gregor Podnar (Vienna), Kim? Contemporary Art Centre (Riga), Kogo Gallery (Tartu), 427 Gallery (Riga), Contour Art Gallery (Vilnius), Hollybush Gardens (London), Galerie Nordenhake (Berlin/Stockholm/Mexico City), Carlier Gebauer (Berlin/Madrid), Misako & Rosen (Tokyo), Waitingroom (Tokyo), Mangrove Gallery (Shenzhen), as well as Warsaw galleries including Foksal Gallery Foundation, Raster, Leto, Monopol, Piktogram, BWA, Stereo, and others.
Supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia and The Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA).