A group exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas by three Estonian artists – Eike Eplik, Kristi Kongi and Anna Mari Liivrand – is open at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, Latvia until 26 January 2025. The exhibition is curated by Šelda Puķīte and co-organised by Kogo Gallery in Tartu, Estonia as part of an exchange between the two art institutions.
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 exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas is open from 28 November until 26 January at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre at Sporta 2 in Riga, Latvia. Kim? is open for visits from Tuesday to Sunday 12–18, the exhibition will be on view until 26 January 2025.
The show is part of an exhibition exchange between the two art institutions: in spring, Kogo Gallery hosted a solo exhibition all the possibilities that existed (28 March – 4 May 2024) by Latvian artist Krista Dzudzilo, the show being co-organised by Kim?.
The exhibition is supported 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, KRASO, Caparol Eesti, Absolut and Valmiermuiža.
Photography: Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
View from the exhibition White Dwarfs and All Those Beautiful Nebulas at Kim_ Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2024. Photo by Ansis Starks
