Kim? is an art centre devoted to ideas, gestures, textures and interventions that shifts from “a well trained chameleon face” (Zane Onckule) to a cadavre exquis, from “a polygon, a laboratory, a lighthouse” (Jānis Borgs) to a hybrid organism. Founded in 2009, Kim? has actively contributed to the art discourse both in Latvia and on a global scale with extensive exhibition programming, as well as international collaborations, discussions, publications, talks and performances. Over the years Kim? has worked with both emerging and renowned artists, theoreticians, curators, philosophers, translators and thinkers of other spheres aiming to provide a responsive context to their work and to make critical practices accessible to a wider audience.
Kim? with its name being a question itself (“kas ir māksla?” – what is art?) inhabits an ongoing series of questions – what it means to be a cultural agent today and to contribute to the vast landscape of contemporary art, how to show and talk about art, thinking about how art functions in differing contexts of local and global economies, traditions, cultures and subcultures, between the disappearance and reappearance of identities.
With over 200 exhibitions under its belt, Kim? continues to probe, to question, and to show.
(Kaspars Groševs, 2019)
Working hours:
Monday: closed
Tuesday – Sunday:
12pm-6pm
Tickets:
FREE ENTRY
Contacts:
Sporta iela 2 k-1, LV-1013, Rīga
Tel.: + 371 29600916
E-mail: kim@kim.lv
Zane Čulkstēna
Founder
Evita Goze
Executive Director
+ 371 20201563
Zane Onckule
Program Director
+ 371 26537438
Austra Stupele
Communications and Outreach Project Manager
+ 371 26143917
Katrīna Jauģiete
Project Manager
+ 371 26660914
Company details:
Association “KIM?”
Sporta Street 2 k-1
Riga, LV-1013, Latvia
Reg. No. 40008128175
Bank “Swedbank”, HABALV22
Account No.
LV93HABA0551021167138