{"id":8782,"date":"2025-09-12T14:25:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/?p=8782"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:27:05","slug":"kim-open-call-2025-winner-is-paula-punkstina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/en\/kim-open-call-2025-winner-is-paula-punkstina\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim? Open Call 2025 Winner is Paula Punksti\u0146a"},"content":{"rendered":"Kim? Contemporary Art Centre is pleased to announce the results of the Kim? Open Call 2025. Out of 45 submitted projects, this year\u2019s laureate is artist Paula Punksti\u0146a. Her exhibition will take place in the spring of 2026 at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Sporta iela 2.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"164\" data-end=\"607\">\n<p data-start=\"164\" data-end=\"607\">Punksti\u0146a\u2019s project <em data-start=\"184\" data-end=\"206\">Liminal Compressions<\/em> explores the fluidity of identity and processes of continuous reconstruction through photographic materials and texts imprinted onto flexible polyurethane foam (memory foam) sculptures. The works are supplemented with elements of taxidermy, bamboo arrows, and synthetic hair, while the central material\u2014foam\u2014becomes a metaphor for an essence that always adapts and yet returns to its original form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"649\" data-end=\"1124\">Kim? Program Director Zane Onckule notes: \u201cEmerging artist Paula Punksti\u0146a\u2019s first solo exhibition at the institution is a sequential continuation of her previous projects, unfolding into new directions. In her work, Punksti\u0146a addresses themes such as identity, constructed belief systems, and personal ideologies. By merging reality with metaphorical imagination, she translates her conceptual ideas into tangible material forms\u2014assemblages of objects and installations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1126\" data-end=\"1670\">Symptomatic of the artist\u2019s youth, various existential themes of being, together with the acquisition of ever-new experiences, mark her interest in reflecting on the fluidity of selfhood, its oscillations between persistence and impermanence, as well as the choices made and the building of future plans. Employing the seemingly innocent figure of the deer, which appears in her work visually and associatively, Punksti\u0146a unfolds reflections on naivety, belonging, and language, conceptualising them through the prism of collective identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1126\" data-end=\"1670\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8784\" src=\"http:\/\/kim.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HarshEdges-1-\u00a9Paula-Punkstina-1024x735.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kim.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HarshEdges-1-\u00a9Paula-Punkstina-1024x735.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/kim.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HarshEdges-1-\u00a9Paula-Punkstina-300x215.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/kim.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HarshEdges-1-\u00a9Paula-Punkstina-768x551.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/kim.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HarshEdges-1-\u00a9Paula-Punkstina-1536x1102.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/kim.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HarshEdges-1-\u00a9Paula-Punkstina-2048x1470.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1126\" data-end=\"1670\"><em data-start=\"609\" data-end=\"645\">Press image: Paula Punksti\u0146a, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1672\" data-end=\"2125\"><strong data-start=\"1672\" data-end=\"1691\">Paula Punksti\u0146a<\/strong> (b. 2001) is a Latvian visual artist. She graduated in Photography from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and is currently pursuing a Master\u2019s degree at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Her work emphasises explorations of identity, fragility, and transitional states of disappearance. By combining philosophy with visual metaphors, Punksti\u0146a\u2019s artistic practice engages with the translation of concepts into material form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2127\" data-end=\"2588\">The <strong data-start=\"2131\" data-end=\"2149\">Kim? Open Call<\/strong> initiative was launched in 2016 with the aim of recognising and supporting promising artists and curators, providing the best possible conditions for the realisation of their creative projects. Previous laureates include Anna Malicka, Annemarija Gulbe, Ieva Jaku\u0161a and Gundega Strauberga, Karl\u012bna Me\u017eecka, Sab\u012bne \u0160n\u0113, J\u0101nis Krauklis, Toms Harjo and J\u0101nis Dzirnieks, as well as curators Anna Laganovska, \u017danete Liek\u012bte and Laura Brok\u0101ne.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim? Contemporary Art Centre is pleased to announce the results of the Kim? Open Call 2025. Out of 45 submitted projects, this year\u2019s laureate is artist Paula Punksti\u0146a. Her exhibition will take place in the spring of 2026 at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Sporta iela 2. &nbsp; Punksti\u0146a\u2019s project Liminal Compressions explores the fluidity of [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kim-events","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kim? Open Call 2025 Winner is Paula Punksti\u0146a - Kim? 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