While the museum's building in Andrejsala is still in the early stages of its development, answers to these questions can be found at the block of Spīķeri buildings situated in the historic centre of Riga, which was included in UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1997,
| The exhibition by the young, already internationally renowned Dutch artist Guido van der Werve (b. 1977) Everything is Going to Be Alright is set up at the VKN gallery at the kim? center in Spīķeri and features screenings of the artist’s film. The exhibition has borrowed its name from the 2007 work Nummer acht. Everything is going to be alright exhibited in Manifesta 7, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2008. The film depicts the artist walking in front of the icebreaker Sampo in the harsh surroundings of the Gulf of Bothnia. Films by van der Werve are saturated with melancholy, feelings of loss and loneliness, but also with black humor in the most unexpected moments. |
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The RIXC gallery at Spīķeri in its turn hosts the exhibition White Point by the Latvian artist Gints Gabrāns (1970). This is actually an ensemble of images from the artist’s photon painting project –created by breaking a laser beam on a specifically prepared reflective surface in a darkened room– a drop of water on micro mirror. The obtained projection is written on a large scale light sensitive surface –photo paper. After treating the paper with photo-chemicals a unique photon painting is created by filling out the photo paper’s surface with traces left by photons (light quanta).
The latest Gabrāns’ large-scale project Not a wave, not a corpuscle was exhibited in Paris in 2008. Gints Gabrāns was awarded with the Hansabank prize (2004). He has participated in the 26th São Paulo Art Biennial (2005) and the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007). The artist seeks to explore the phenomena of light, water and reflection which can be viewed from a logical as well as an intuitive perspective.
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The third project is the installation Global Trash by the Swedish creative group Candyland, on display on the second floor of the kim? building until November 22. Global Trash was initiated at the art fair ArtVilnius’09 in Vilnius, Lithuania in July, 2009. In Riga the installation is created during the opening night of Climate by Candyland as well as Swedish artists from a sister organization Hammarby Artport and their children. The artists will be arranging colorful trash on a large-scale canvas. Candyland is the name of a non-profit art space in Stockholm where various exhibitions, performances, workshops and other events take place, as well as the name of the group of people who take turns in organizing these events. |
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