Curators \u2013 Anne Barlow, Courtenay Finn, Alise Tifentale<\/p>\n
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The pavilion’s introductory exhibition in New York in March, 2013 was like a prelude for a one-act opera. The exposition in Venice from June untill November, 2013 of the same year – the performance itself; one visitor even wrote \u2013 I was astonished and thought it was a real coup de th\u00e9\u00e2tre<\/i>. Returning from the guest performances, the pavilion exhibition in Riga has something to do with deconstruction – the decorations are being taken out and a new version of the constantly changeable \u2013 choreographed once more.<\/p>\n<\/span>The exposition in Riga is formed taking into consideration the specifics of the space, the photographs of Kaspars Podnieks\u2019 series Rommelis\u2019 Dairy (Romme\u013ca pienotava) <\/i>will be displayed along with the video pieces and the installation by Kriss Salmanis – a motorized animation of the \u201cmoving tree\u201d exhibited in the Venice Biennale. The exhibition in Riga is conceived in collaboration with architect Austris Mailitis.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Pavilion of Latvia at the 55th<\/sup> International Art Exhibition \u2013 la Biennale di Venezia \u2013 was organized by Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in collaboration with the New York art space Art in General. <\/i>New art work, created especially for the Arsenale of Venice were exhibited in the exposition North by Northeast<\/i> – large-scale photographs and videos by Kaspars Podnieks with the peasants of Drusti portrayed on the background of their farms, and the installation by Kriss Salmanis – rhythmically swaying tree. Unfolding the relationship between the artist and the real and constantly changing, man-made world, including the imaginary boundaries of Europe and it’s centres, the artists focused on highlighting matters of identity, uncertainty and intermediaries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Pavilion of Latvia\u00a0 at the 55th<\/sup> International Art Exhibition \u2013 la Biennale di Venezia \u2013 closed with a record-breaking number of 222 620 visitors during it’s six months of the Biennale.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Within the project Kim? has published the catalogue North by Northeast <\/i>for the exposition of the\u00a0 Pavilion of Latvia that will be available during the exhibition in Riga.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kaspars Podnieks<\/span>\u00a0(born 1980) has been taking part in exhibitions since 1998. His work includes photography and video, installations and environment objects. Recent joint-exhibitions: Generation of the Place: Image, Memory and Fictions in Baltics<\/i> (2012) in Kaunas, Lithuania;\u00a0Preview Berlin<\/i>\u00a0(2011) in Berlin, Germany; Life in the Forest <\/i>(2011) in Bialystok, Poland. Solo shows: Communicating Vessels<\/i> (2011) and\u00a0 Unusual Place<\/i> (2010) at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, Latvia. Kaspars Podnieks is an active participant in the social and political activities in his birthplace , the village of Dr usti, since 2005.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kriss Salmanis<\/span>\u00a0(born 1977) works in the fields of photography, video, installations, animation and graphics and has taken place in international exhibitions since 1996. Recent solo shows: Light <\/i>(2012) CAC in Vilnius, Lithuania; The Fragility of <\/i>Trust<\/i> (2012) gallery Alma<\/i> in Riga, Latvia; The Earth may be spinning around the Sun, but the World is turning around me <\/i>(2011) Raum linksrechts<\/i> in Hamburg, Germany;\u00a0Moving Landscape <\/i>(2011) Contemporary Art Gallery in Bremen, Germany.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Curators \u2013 Anne Barlow, Courtenay Finn, Alise Tifentale What is left here once the feast is over? The pavilion’s introductory exhibition in New York in March, 2013 was like a prelude for a one-act opera. The exposition in Venice from June untill November, 2013 of the same year – the performance itself; one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2014-exhibitions","category-kim-exhibitions","category-past-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n