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The kim? building
Photo: Ansis Starks
Miks Mitrevics' exhibition "Entropy Cube" at kim?/VKN gallery
Photo: Ansis Starks
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kim?
kim? is a contemporary arts centre which presents exhibitions, lectures, film screenings, performances and concerts at its premises in the historical Spīķeri district of Riga.
The name kim? stands for both kas ir māksla? and kas ir muzejs? (what is art/what is a museum?). The question form of the name was not chosen by accident, as kim? is an active multi-disciplinary organisation which looks into the future and does not consider all the important questions to have been answered. Quite the opposite – kim? is a place where you can go to look for alternative answers to the questions of contemporary culture and the experience of living today – the questions which are relevant to the here and now.
The kim? venue features three galleries – kim?/VKN gallery, kim?/RIXC gallery, and kim?/FK gallery. New exhibitions are opened each month, presenting the latest Latvian and foreign contemporary art to the public.
The regular exhibitions are accompanied by programmes of lectures, film screenings, performances and concerts, organised in cooperation with the University of Latvia’s Cognitive Science and Semantics Centre, the Latvian New Theatre Institute, the National Film Centre, the adventurous music festival “Forest of Sound” (“Skaņu mežs”), and other contemporary arts organizations.
kim? was founded in spring 2008 as a social non-profit organisation, and opened to the public in May 2009. Since then, it has succeeded in attracting a wide audience interested in the expression and analysis of contemporary culture.
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