Kaspars
Podnieks (b.1980) has been participating in exhibitions since 1998. His
work encompasses photography, video, installations, and environmental objects.
Latest group exhibitions include – Generation of the Place: Image, Memory and
Fictions in Baltics (2012) in Kaunas, Lithuania; Preview Berlin (2011) in
Berlin, Germany; Life in the Forest (2011) in Bialystok, Poland and solo
exhibitions – Unusual Place (2010) and Communicating Vessels (2011) at kim?
Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, Latvia. Since 2005 Kaspars Podnieks has taken
part in social and political activities in his home village Drusti – being a
deputy of Drusti Council (since 2005), a Drusti Council chairman’s legal
representative (since 2007) and a deputy of Rauna’s region (since 2010).
Krišs
Salmanis (b.1977) is working within fields of photography, video,
installations, animation and graphics and has been participating in exhibitions
internationally since 1996. Latest solo exhibitions include – Light (2012) in
CAC Vilnius, Lithuania; The Fragility of Trust (2012) at gallery Alma in Riga,
Latvia; The Earth may be spinning around the Sun, but the World is turning
around me (2011) Raum linksrechts in Hamburg, Germany; Moving Landscape (2011)
at Galerie f?r Gegenwartskunst in Bremen, Germany. Since 2008 Krišs Salmanis
has written articles on contemporary art processes for the visual arts magazine
Studija and contributes to other daily press on a regular basis.
kim? Contemporary
Art Centre (Riga, Latvia) founded in 2009 offers a certain range of
activities including exhibitions, lectures, talks, public library, publications
and other events related to recent art, theory and social issues introduced by
the means of a local and international corpus of ideas, beliefs and
individuals. kim? supports the development of emerging artists, theoreticians,
curators, philosophers and others aiming to provide a responsive context to
their work and to make those critical practices accessible to a wider audience.
Art in
General (NY, USA) is a nonprofit art organization based in New York.
Founded as an artist-run space in 1981, it has since supported hundreds of
artists through group exhibitions, international residency programs and the
production of new work. Its current programmatic focus is the commissioning of
major new projects by local and international artists, national and
international collaborations with other non-profit organizations, and the
creation of new discourse through What Now?, an annual international symposium
around critical topics in the field.
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