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“Following the work of the ISCP residency selection committee and a review of the artistic materials submitted by the artists nominated for the Kim? residency, we are delighted to announce the recipient of the upcoming residency \u2013 artist Agate T\u016bna.<\/p>\n
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T\u016bna is a Riga-based interdisciplinary artist specializing in analogue and experimental photography, extending her practice into installation, video, and sound. Employing techniques such as film soups, chemigrams, and photograms, T\u016bna assumes the role of a researcher through the use of the camera, questioning and interlinking the realms of reality and fiction.<\/p>\n
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Since our first encounter with the artist while working on the festival New Address: Eden<\/em> (2024), it has been exciting to observe the further development of her artistic practice and the continual emergence of new facets within the complex interplay of technology, corporeality, and spirituality. Continuing the tradition of the Kim? and ISCP collaborative residency programme, T\u016bna will return to Kim? with an ambitious presentation of her first solo exhibition within the institution in the summer of 2027,\u201d reveals Zane Onckule, Programme Director of Kim?.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n During the ISCP residency, the artist will develop a new body of work through analogue and experimental photography, combined with archival research into the history of paranormal and spiritual photography. The project focuses on unresolved images, archival gaps, and materials governed by alternative logics of memory, approaching photography as a mutable and performative medium. Through analogue experiments and cameraless techniques, the residency will support an ongoing inquiry into the afterlives of images and the processes through which images are preserved, transformed, or lost.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Agate T\u016bna<\/strong> is a multidisciplinary artist from Riga, Latvia, working with analogue photography, experimental video and sound art. Her practice explores the relationship between spirituality and technology from a woman\u2019s perspective, tracing connections between her family\u2019s spiritual heritage, hauntology, quartz crystals and techno-specters. Photography, as a \u201chaunted medium,\u201d is central to her work, combining chemigrams, self-portraits, staged compositions, and direct interaction with photographic materials, artist creates images that balance between documentary narratives and imagination.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She holds a BA in Painting (2020) and an MA from the interdisciplinary department POST (2023) at the Art Academy of Latvia, graduate of the ISSP School (2022). Recent projects include solo exhibitions\u00a0Familiar<\/em>\u00a0at Gallery 427, Riga (2026), and\u00a0Voltentity\u00a0<\/em>at Gallery ASNI, Riga (2025). Recent group exhibitions include\u00a0GenZ<\/em>\u00a0at Mus\u00e9e Photo Elys\u00e9e, Lausanne (2025);\u00a0Neurons Desperately Seek Each Other<\/em>\u00a0at Riga Photography Biennial, Gallery Smilga, Riga (2025);\u00a0Under the Sun<\/em>\u00a0at TUR Art Space, Riga, in collaboration with 1646, The Hague (2025);\u00a0New Address: EDEN<\/em>\u00a0at Kim? Hanzas 22, Riga (2024);\u00a0Contemporary Histories of Photography I\u00a0<\/em>at ISSP Gallery, RFB, Riga (2024) as well as a residency at Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts, Paris (2025). T\u016bna is a FUTURES Talent (2024) and a Plat(t)form participant at Fotomuseum Winterthur (2025). Nominated for the Purv\u012btis Prize (2025) and for The Annual Art Award of Latvia (2026) in the category Artist of the Year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ISCP<\/strong> is a comprehensive, international visual arts residency programme that has hosted more than 1,300 artists and curators from over 55 countries to date. Agate T\u016bna will be one of the residents, with the opportunity to present her practice to internationally recognised curators and art professionals through studio visits, fostering exchange of ideas, increasing the international visibility of her work, and establishing new professional connections.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Kim? Residency Award<\/strong> was established in 2015 with the aim of supporting the development, professional growth, and international recognition of Latvian artists. The award offers a promising Latvian artist the opportunity to participate in a residency programme at one of Kim?\u2019s partner institutions abroad. Previous recipients of the residency award include Darja Me\u013c\u0146ikova, who undertook a residency at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2015); Ieva Epnere, ISCP, New York (2016); Ieva Kraule, Gasworks, London (2017); Di\u0101na Tamane, Artport Tel Aviv (2018); Maija Kur\u0161eva, ISCP, New York (2019); Kri\u0161s Salmanis, ISCP, New York (2021); Elza S\u012ble, ISCP, New York (2022); L\u012bga Spunde, ISCP, New York (2023); J\u0101nis Dzirnieks, ISCP, New York (2024); and Karl\u012bna Me\u017eecka, ISCP, New York (2025).<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kim? Contemporary Art Centre announces Agate T\u016bna as the recipient of the Kim? Residency Award 2026! In autumn 2026, the artist will undertake a two-month residency at ISCP (the International Studio & Curatorial Program) in NYC. This marks the seventh collaboration between Kim? and ISCP, with the residency supported for the second consecutive year by […]<\/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":[24,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-homepage","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n