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Kim? and Kogo Gallery are pleased to invite you to the opening of the group exhibition "White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas", featuring three Estonian artists – Eike Eplik, Kristi Kongi, and Anna Mari Liivrand. The show is curated by Šelda Puķīte. Opening: November 28, 6 pm – 9pm
Exhibitions dates: November 29 – January 26
A white dwarf is a former star that has collapsed into an energy-dense, Earth-size stellar object. From its outer layers, it creates a planetary nebula that erupts into colourful gas clouds, becoming a new star-forming incubator. In other words, it uses the leftovers of the old world to create a new one. The triangle dance of white dwarfs, nebulas and newly formed substances, from which life emerges, can be viewed as cosmopoetry for the cycle of life. The exhibition explores this process of rebirth, where entropy and change are part of a new beginning, where nothing is truly lost, and nothing is truly still or in control.
The practices of Eike Eplik, Kristi Kongi and Anna Mari Liivrand do not focus on studies of cosmology, yet their observations of the world and contemplations about it mirror the processes taking place in the universe. The worlds they create constantly expand and transform, not letting themselves be identified as a single form or message. Each using their own set of skills, media and forms of artistic expression, they present visions of the world as a liquid entity in constant metamorphosis. In the exhibition, they take up a certain role play by mimicking the processes happening with white dwarfs, and by closely collaborating, they build narratives that echo each other.
The show is co-organized by Kogo Gallery in Tartu, Estonia, as part of an exhibition exchange between the two art institutions.
Suported by the Ministry of Culture of Latvia and the Ministry of Culture of Estonia from the fund Estonian Culture Abroad; State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia; Riga City Council and Tartu City, Caparol Eesti, Absolut and Valmiermuiža.
Artists: Eike Eplik, Kristi Kongi, Anna Mari Liivrand
Curator: Šelda Puķīte
Production and public programme: Evita Goze, Zane Onckule, Stella Mõttus
Communication: Žanete Liekīte, Karin Kahre, Anett Pettaig
Text: Šelda Puķīte
Graphic design: Aleksandra Samulenkova
Documentation: Ansis Starks, Kristīne Madjare
Translation and language editing: Will Mawhood, Refiner Translations
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sporta 2, Riga, Latvia-1013, Latvia
