{"id":8602,"date":"2025-05-02T14:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T11:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/?p=8602"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:27:01","slug":"kim-participates-in-the-esther-art-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/en\/kim-participates-in-the-esther-art-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim? Participates in the Esther art fair in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"Kim? Contemporary Art Centre is pleased to announce participation in the\u00a0Esther art fair, taking place in the Estonian House in New York, with new works by Latvian artists Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis and Viktor Timofeev.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Esther<\/strong>
\nEstonian House in New York
\n243 East 34th Street, Manhattan, New York
\nPreview:\u00a0<\/strong>May 6
\nDates:<\/strong>\u00a0May 7\u2013May 10<\/p>\n

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Reserve your free ticket\u00a0here<\/a>. If you are interested in attending preview on Tuesday May 6, please let us know.<\/p>\n

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Esther, an alternative model for gallery collaboration beyond the traditional art fair, was founded by Olga Temnikova from the gallery Temnikova & Kasela in Tallinn and Margot Samel from the eponymous gallery in New York. Taking place in the historical Estonian House in New York Esther brings together the art projects of twenty-five international galleries and in a common environment, offers an alternative to the usual ways of showing and experiencing art and thereby challenges the traditional art fair model.<\/p>\n

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Kim? is participating in the Esther art fair for the second time\u2014this year representing Latvian artist Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis and New York-based Latvian artist Viktor Timofeev. Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis\u2019s Three Square Sand Knots and Four Sky Knots stage a material meditation on uncertainty and unresolved tension. The artist describes his works as small attempts to hold things together through pulled, twisted combinations of metal, paint, veneer, and fabric. The Sky Knots emerge from an atmosphere saturated with static and anxious energy, while The Sand Knots gesture toward a futile desire for clarity and order. Rather than offering resolution, \u0122elzis lets the twisted forms speak\u2014of fragility, resistance, and the invisible systems that bind and shape our world. Viktor Timofeev presents two newly created works referencing his exhibition Other Passengers currently on view at the Latvian National Museum of Art. Depicting a spectral village at dawn and dusk, the scenes turn architecture into a stage for memory, myth, and imagined belonging\u2014extending his exploration of psychological landscapes and speculative inner worlds.<\/p>\n

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Indri\u0137is \u0122elzis<\/strong> (1988) lives and works in Riga, Latvia. He analyzes personal experience, as well as memories and art history, using three-dimensional models for bringing together and abstracting information which seemingly makes up a pattern of data but does not in fact yield itself to comprehension. \u0122elzis\u2019 research ends up assuming the form of plane and freestanding objects\/figures, welded, bent and cut in the artist\u2019s studio. \u0122elzis holds an MA in Visual Communication from the Art Academy of Latvia and a postgraduate degree from HISK \u2013 Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium. Recent solo and duo exhibitions include shows at Polina Berlin Gallery, New York (2024); Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2023); Jenny\u2019s, New York (2022); Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (2022); Castor, London (2020); CINNAMON, Rotterdam (2019); and ASHES\/ASHES, New York (2019). Selected group exhibitions include shows at Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (2020); Union Pacific, London (2018); and Joshua Liner Gallery, New York (2018).<\/p>\n

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His works are included in the collections of Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga (LV); Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest (RO); S.M.A.K. \u2013 The Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent (BE); The Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius (LT); CELINE Art Project, Paris (FR); Paul Thiers Collection, Waregem (BE); Alain Servais Family Collection, Brussels (BE); Antoine De Werd Collection, The Hague (NL); Tanguy Van De Weghe Collection, Otegem (BE); Francis Vanhoonacker Collection, Kortrijk (BE); Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels (BE); BTA Art Collection, Riga (LV); Colin Fernandes Collection, New York (US); and the Zuz\u0101ns Private Collection, Riga (LV).<\/p>\n

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Viktor Timofeev<\/strong> (1984) is a multidisciplinary artist from Riga, Latvia currently living between Riga and New York, whose practice explores the intersections of inner worlds, language, bureaucracy, and individual experience within broader social and cultural systems, spanning painting, drawing, video, and installation. Drawing from personal and societal perspectives, his work examines themes of identity, migration, and communication across borders. He organizes monthly events that include screenings, performances and sensory deprivation listening sessions at No Moon, an event space in Brooklyn he co-founded in 2018. Timofeev also hosts a show on Montez Press Radio called Sibling Gardens. He received his MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and his BFA at Hunter College in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include shows at the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga (2025); Gallery 427, Riga (2024); Interstate Projects, New York (2021); and Karlin Studios \/ Futura, Prague (2020). Group exhibitions include shows at the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson (2025); Tallinn Photomonth (2023); Digital Intimacy at the National Gallery, Prague (2021); and the 14th Baltic Triennial at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2021).<\/p>\n

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His work is included in the collections of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga (LV); Muzeum Sztuki, \u0141\u00f3d\u017a (PL); Malm\u00f6 Konstmuseum, Malm\u00f6 (SE); BTA Art Collection, Vilnius (LT); Pekeln\u00e9 S\u00e1n\u011b Collection, Prague (CZ); Van Den Valentyn Foundation, Cologne (DE); and the Weissman Family Collection, New York (US).<\/p>\n

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Esther participants:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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BANK, Shanghai\/New York (CN\/US)
BWA Warszawa, Warsaw (PL)
Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City (VN)
Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo (JP)
ILY2, Portland (US)
Ivan, Bucharest (RO)
James Fuentes, New York\/Los Angeles (US)
Kim? Gallery, Riga (LV)
Kogo Gallery, Tartu (EE)
Laurel Gitlen, New York (US)
Layr, Vienna (AT)
Longtermhandstand, Budapest (HU)
Margot Samel, New York (US)
Misako & Rosen, Tokyo (JP)
Mrs., New York (US)
Pang\u00e9e, Montreal (CA)
Post Times, New York (US)
Sargent\u2019s Daughters, New York (US)
sans titre, Paris (FR)
SARA\u2019S, New York (US)
sentiment, Zurich (CH)
Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna (AT)
Tara Downs, New York (US)
Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn (EE)
Triangolo, Cremona (IT)<\/p>\n

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Esther in the media:<\/strong>\u00a0Artsy<\/a>,\u00a0ARTnews<\/a>,\u00a0Artnet<\/a>,\u00a0The Art Newspaper<\/a>,\u00a0Ocula<\/a>,\u00a0Financial Times<\/a>,\u00a0Surface Mag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Contact:\u00a0<\/strong>darta.purvlice@kim.lv<\/p>\n

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Supporters:<\/p>\n

\"\".\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

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