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Kim?

Kim? is an art centre devoted to ideas, gestures, textures and interventions that shift from “a well-trained chameleon face” to a cadavre exquis, from “a polygon, a laboratory, a lighthouse” to a hybrid organism. Founded in 2009, Kim? has actively contributed to the art discourse in Latvia and on a global scale with extensive exhibition programming, as well as international collaborations, discussions, publications, talks and performances. Over the years, Kim? has worked with both emerging and renowned artists, theoreticians, curators, philosophers, translators and thinkers of other spheres, aiming to provide a responsive context to their work and to make critical practices accessible to a broader audience.

Kim? with its name being a question itself (“kas ir māksla?” – what is art?) inhabits an ongoing series of questions – what it means to be a cultural agent today and to contribute to the vast landscape of contemporary art, how to show and talk about art, thinking about how art functions in differing contexts of local and global economies, traditions, cultures and subcultures, between the disappearance and reappearance of identities.

With over 200 exhibitions under its belt, Kim? continues to probe, to question, and to show.

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Kim? Contemporary Art Centre presents Viktor Timofeev

Viktor Timofeev’s new series of works on paper, “Windows Without Buildings”

Viktor Timofeev’s studio in Brooklyn. Photo: Anna Dave

embodies continued interest in systems as a generative tool, using invented rules and improvisations to render pseudo-abstract, intimate compositions.

Ordinary staircases, buildings and cars are estranged from their context and are rendered alien on surfaces of densely layered graphite, as observed reality blends contort into modular, repetitive marks.

Viktor Timofeev’s studio in Brooklyn. Photo: Anna Dave

Timofeev makes works on paper, often executed in pastels, graphite or ink, and paintings, murals, and works in digital formats, often taking shape as experimental games. He focuses strongly on visual expression, leaning towards dreamlike, expressive magical realism.

Twodom, 2022.
Single-channel excerpt,
Part of ‘Victorian Basics and Martian Stories’ at Levy Delval, Brussels.

Viktor Timofeev (b. 1984, Riga, Latvia) is an artist based in New York.

Timofeev’s multidisciplinary practice is informed by personal experiences, speculative imaginings and everything in between. Working across generative software, video, painting, installation and sound, Timofeev combines these mediums to create semi-fictional environments. He received his MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and his BFA at Hunter College in New York. He hosts monthly events that include screenings, performances and sensory deprivation listening sessions at No Moon, an event space in Brooklyn he co-founded in 2018.

His recent solo exhibitions include DOG at Interstate Projects in New York (2021), God Objects at Karlin Studios / Futura in Prague (2020), God Room at Alyssa Davis Gallery in New York (2018) and Stairway to Melon at Kim? Contemporary Art Center in Riga (2017). Recent group exhibitions include Tallinn Photomonth in Tallinn (2023), Digital Intimacy at the National Gallery Prague in Prague (2021), the 14th Baltic Triennial at Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius (2021), Unexpected Encounters at the Latvian National Museum of Art (2019) and Somewhere in Between at Bozar in Brussels (2018).

Collections include Jack Shear in New York, Norman Rosenthal in London, Van Den Valentyn Foundation in Cologne, Pekelné Sáné Collection in Prague, the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga and BTA Art Collection in Vilnius.

Viktor Timofeev - Exocursion (LP), 2021
A journey outside of oneself that invites the listener to explore worlds of layered guitar loops, orchestral bass chords and manipulated field recordings, leaving them with a roadmap to a territory that eschews order and embraces the ineffable.