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EDEN: Coming of Age\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre\u2019s annual festival<\/b><\/p>\n
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Hanzas 22, Riga<\/strong><\/p>\n Dates: 7 June\u20131 August 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Exhibition hours:<\/strong> <\/p>\n Participants: <\/span>Daniel Chew <\/b>and<\/span> Micaela Durand<\/b> (US), <\/span>GolfClayderman <\/i><\/b>(Aksels\u00a0<\/span>Bruks, LV\/CH) and Margrieta Griesti\u0146a, LV), <\/span>Daiga Granti\u0146a<\/b> (FR\/LV),<\/span> Ella Kruglyanskaya<\/b> and <\/span>Alan Reid <\/b>(US), <\/span>Maija Kur\u0161eva<\/b> (LV), <\/span>Josh Kline<\/b> (US), <\/span>Mi\u0137elis M\u016brnieks<\/b> (NL\/LV), <\/span>Aura Rosenberg <\/b>(DE\/US), Bootleg Library x <\/span>Mika Solomon<\/b> (US\/LV), Urban Bar (<\/span>Charly Bl\u00f6del<\/b> (DE\/NL) and <\/span>Edgars Jane<\/b> (LV\/NL))<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Curators:<\/span> Alaina Claire Feldman<\/b> (US) and<\/span> Zane Onckule <\/b>(LV)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n June 6<\/span>: Opening evening program:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n June 10 18:00:<\/span> Lecture <\/span>We Don’t Need No Education: Curating within and beyond the School<\/span><\/i> by <\/span>Alaina Claire Feldman <\/b>(US)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n June 11 18:00<\/span>: <\/span>\u00a0<\/b>A Shade Colder <\/i><\/b>(Tallinn)<\/span> magazine presentation by <\/span>Keiu Krikmann<\/b>, <\/span>Johanna Ruukholm<\/b> and <\/span>Martina Gofman <\/b>(<\/span>Jojo & me Studio<\/span><\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n August 3\u00a0 19:00 Finissage: Performance by Jette Loona Hermanis<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201c<\/span>It cannot be denied that the university is a place of refuge, and it cannot be accepted that the university is a place of enlightenmen<\/span><\/i>t.\u201d \u2013Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, <\/span>The Undercommons<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Titled <\/b>EDEN Coming of Age<\/i><\/b>, this festival and celebration marks the 16th anniversary (\u201csweet sixteen\u201d) of the venerable arts organisation, which has played a pivotal<\/b> role in supporting local and international contemporary art in Riga.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Founded in 2009, Kim? has worked with both emerging and renowned artists, theoreticians, curators, philosophers, translators and thinkers, aiming to provide a responsive context to their work and to make critical practices accessible to a wider audience. In this critical moment for the institution,<\/span> EDEN: Coming of Age <\/span><\/i>asks artists and audiences what it means to transition from youth to adulthood, from amateur to expert, from idealism to realism, and to embrace all the angst that comes with that.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Following the inaugural festival, <\/span>EDEN: New Address<\/span><\/i>, in 2024, this year’s <\/span>EDEN: Coming of Age<\/span><\/i> returns to the same address at 22 Hanzas Street, the future site of a new, larger venue for Kim?. In this moment of transition for the institution, artists are invited to conceive temporary installations that reference the festival\u2019s theme and are inspired by the history of the building, which once housed several schools, including the Riga Technical College of Economics, the Riga Technical College of Food Industry Mechanics and Technology, and Riga Business College. The school is often the site of regulation and professionalisation of personhood where very early on the classroom acts as a fortification of ideals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This history of education and knowledge accumulation as it relates to who gets to teach and what gets taught play a formative role in these artistic interventions. Here, artists toy with the notion of an undercommons, a refuge where one is skeptical of the ivory tower but works within it to radically create new lenses of conviviality. They do this through building relationships with people willing to participate in the creation of new social relations and appropriating and satirizing the overdetermined hyper-professionalisation and late-capitalist market demands. <\/span>EDEN: Coming of Age\u2019s<\/span><\/i> playful programme supports interdisciplinary artworks, collaborative performances, and public programmes guiding the way towards a future adulthood that breaks moulds rather than casting them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n EDEN: Coming of Age<\/span><\/i> gathers together a group of international and inter-generational artists who work in a wide range of media. The festival includes both new commissions and existing work that has never been shown in Riga. The exhibition is accompanied with a rich series of public programmes, and expansive festival opening and closing events with performances, DJ sets, and live concerts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nestled inside the exhibition\u2019s venue, the<\/span> Bootleg Library <\/span><\/i>displays unauthorised versions of books, zines, and YouTube links selected by artists and other invited contributors that highly influenced their own coming-of-age. The festival is also the site for the Summer School of the Interior Design Department at Art Academy of Latvia, resulting in a built intervention of an <\/span>Urban Bar<\/span><\/i> activating <\/span>EDEN<\/span><\/i>\u2019s inner courtyard-garden as a social space.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Project Director: <\/span>Evita Goze<\/b><\/p>\n Project managment: <\/span>Katr\u012bna Jau\u0123iete<\/b><\/p>\n Communication:<\/span> \u017danete Liek\u012bte<\/b><\/p>\n Design: <\/span>Kri\u0161s Salmanis<\/b><\/p>\n Display solution:<\/span> Studio SIJA Arhitekti (Art\u016brs Tols, Kristi\u0101na Erta)<\/b><\/p>\n Technical team: <\/span>Aldis Bu\u0161s, Andris Mara\u010dkovskis, Rom\u0101ns Medvedevs, J\u0101nis Noviks, VPT grupa<\/b><\/p>\n Volunteer Coordinator:<\/span> Beatrise \u0160ulte<\/b><\/p>\n Mediators: <\/span>Linda Bogdanovi\u010da<\/b>, <\/span>Betija Briede<\/b>, <\/span>Anete Medniece<\/b>, <\/span>Beatrise \u0160ulte<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Supporters: Ministry of Culture, State Culture Capital Foundation, Baltic-American Freedom Foundation, Neputns, Stockpot Valmiermui\u017ea<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EDEN: Coming of Age\u00a0\u00a0 Kim? Contemporary Art Centre\u2019s annual festival Hanzas 22, Riga Dates: 7 June\u20131 August 2025 Exhibition hours: Wed\u2013Fri: 14:00\u201319:00 Sat: 12:00\u201317:00 Participants: Daniel Chew and Micaela Durand (US), GolfClayderman (Aksels\u00a0Bruks, LV\/CH) and Margrieta Griesti\u0146a, LV), Daiga Granti\u0146a (FR\/LV), Ella Kruglyanskaya and Alan Reid (US), Maija Kur\u0161eva (LV), […]<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kim-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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