\nOnline: Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis and Elza S\u012ble
\nDecember 1 \u2013 5, 2020
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\nIn-person at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre: Group exhibition Black Market
\n<\/b>December 1, 2020 to January 31, 2021<\/b>
\nOpening: December 1, 12 pm \u2013 8 pm<\/b><\/p>\n
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Artists:<\/b>\u00a0Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis, Kaspars Gro\u0161evs, Inga Meldere, Elza S\u012ble, Viktor Timofeev, Amanda Ziemele, and the special project by Low (Ieva Kraule-K\u016bna and El\u012bna V\u012btola) and Palette: Three-legged Evidence by Daria Melnikova<\/p>\n
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As of 2020 Kim? adds the selected gallery operations to its resume to strengthen the visibility and support the roster of long time artists-collaborators as well as new names from Riga. We are therefore thrilled to announce that Kim? together with 427 and Low will participate in NADA Miami 2020.<\/p>\n
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The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), the definitive non-profit arts organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art, has announced the exhibitor list for NADA Miami, the organization\u2019s annual flagship art fair, taking place December 1 \u2013 5, 2020 in a reimagined format.
\nThe 18th edition of NADA Miami will showcase an international series of presentations from a diverse roster of 46 NADA Members and 27 first-time exhibitors for a total of 96 galleries from 44 cities, both in gallery spaces and online. The fair features gallery hubs in multiple cities, including Kim?, 427 and Low in Riga.<\/p>\n
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NADA Miami remains dedicated to celebrating rising talents from around the globe. Visitors of the 2020 fair will be invited to experience gallery presentations in person in their local city, and discover the best of contemporary art online through a newly-designed digital platform. Accompanying the fair, the virtual programming series will continue to showcase conversations and performances from the defining voices of contemporary art and culture.<\/p>\n
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Online:\u00a0https:\/\/www.newartdealers.org\/ <\/p>\n On Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis’ works<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Paralleling a collective low-grade depression of a quarantine mode, Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis’ wall works illuminate the nervous intersection between psychosis, violence and desire. Born out of a virtual image using 3D software, these humanlike, rigid architecture sculptures contain effortful physical labor of welding, bending, grinding, burning, oiling, and sewing. Within a stainless steel frame, one is tempted to find headless figures, all limbs and spines, cuddling or copulating, at work and play, elbowing for a room in the composition. These frames are gentle traps, held for examination or for correction. They echo a hyperactive stock market graphs alluding to capitalism’s impulse to accumulate information-as-wealth. As a condition of their capture, they lay here – in art fair’s online room – in stillness, frozen in time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n On Elza S\u012ble’s works<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sliding through human-scale-trap mode, Elza S\u012ble presents the set of a paint applied metallic wall-bound platforms that hosts a vocabulary of psycho-spatial typologies. Disarmed by touch, poked in oil tube skin and \u201chand-tapped\u201d, these works consists of the following units: (rib cage is my courthouse) (monotonous sheep walking marked line) (rhetorical delicacies) (snakes honey poison bakery) (all congratulated triumphants) (a built up of non-existent x\u2019s) (pyramid with a blined top) (upstairs downstairs) (ideological constructions) (casual fountains) (collective numbered bones) (laurel olive palm leaves).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Group exhibition Black Market at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre Artists:\u00a0<\/b>Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis, Kaspars Gro\u0161evs, Inga Meldere, Elza S\u012ble, Viktor Timofeev, and Amanda Ziemele as well as the special project by Low (Ieva Kraule-K\u016bna and El\u012bna V\u012btola) and Daria Melnikova’s Palette: Three-legged Evidence<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Black Market is a collaborative (together with Riga based gallery 427 and gallery Low) sales event \u2013 presentation installed and hosted by Kim? in Riga. Borrowing its name from the 1990s post-Soviet reality with clandestine markets all around the Baltics, this improvised art fair booth embraces the underdog status of the Riga art market scene with an attempt to overcome the curse of never being\u00a0legal<\/i>\u00a0or financially viable. Black Market will open on December 1 and will run for two months (until January 31, 2021). It will include the recent works and series from Riga affiliated or Riga bound artists selected by the three galleries and curatorially arranged by the host. All sales will be split equally and shared among the gallery and participating artists.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n at 427:<\/b>\u00a0(in-person)\u00a0J\u0101nis Dzirnieks<\/b>\u00a0and online with\u00a0J\u0101nis Dzirnieks, Kaspars Gro\u0161evs<\/b>, and\u00a0Evita Vasi\u013cjeva<\/b> <\/p>\n at Low:<\/b>\u00a0(in -person)\u00a0Vika Eksta<\/b>\u00a0as part of the mini residencies cycle \u201cGuild\u201d and (online)\u00a0Artist Crisis Center II-B: Fair Gear<\/i><\/b>\u00a0by (Ieva Kraule-K\u016bna<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0El\u012bna V\u012btola<\/b>\u00a0with additional surprise artwork by\u00a0Anna Ceipe, Hanele Zane Putni\u0146a, L\u012bva Rutmane<\/b>, and\u00a0Amanda Ziemele<\/b>) <\/p>\n <\/p>\n About<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kim?<\/b>\u00a0is devoted to ideas, gestures, textures and interventions that shifts from \u201ca well trained chameleon face\u201d to a cadavre exquis, from \u201ca polygon, a laboratory, a lighthouse\u201d 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. <\/p>\n Gallery 427<\/b>\u00a0was opened in 2014 with aim to frequently show contemporary art, to uncover signs, to cast nets and to exchange with confabulations. During this time the gallery has opened almost 50 shows, working with local and international artists, as well as extending international collaboration beyond Latvian borders (with recent projects in Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brno, Berlin).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gallery Low<\/b>\u00a0is an artist-run space led by Ieva Kraule-K\u016bna, El\u012bna V\u012btola and Amanda Ziemele. Gallery’s main focus for the year 2020 is to explore different strategies of artistic expression and administration to find a personally satisfactory answer to the question of what is the particular tone of the local Eastern European voice in the cacophony of the global art market and how can an art institution exist without selling out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nIndri\u0137is \u0122elzis and Elza S\u012ble
\nDecember 1 \u2013 5, 2020<\/b><\/p>\n
\nDecember 1, 2020 \u2013 January 31, 2021<\/b><\/p>\n
\nmore info:\u00a0https:\/\/fourtoseven.info\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nmore info:\u00a0http:\/\/www.low.gallery\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nKim? with its name being a question itself (\u201ckas ir m\u0101ksla?\u201d \u2013 what is art?) inhabits an ongoing series of questions \u2013 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. As of 2020 Kim? adds the gallery operations to its resume to strengthen the visibility and support the roster of long time artists-collaborators as well as new names from Riga.<\/p>\n