Gallery Late – Kaspars Grošev's solo exhibition Live With/Think About

From 30 April 2026 to 7 June I will mostly be found at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga –
for a while I will be “living and working” here.

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This is not an exhibition, performance or action; it is a small sketch of life:
for a while my apartment is available for short-term rent
for a while I sleep and walk here, sit on the internet and paint
for a while I listen to music and play music
for a while I think about art and create art
for a while I exhibit artworks
for a while I sell art and exchange art
for a while my living and working space is open to the public
for a while I make mistakes
for a while I “live and work” here
K. G.

Live With/Think About functions simultaneously as proposition and condition: a way of remaining within perception while also examining how it is produced and sustained. In Kaspars Groševs’ exhibition at Kim?, marking the artist’s return thirteen years after his last solo presentation here, sound, image, display, and social infrastructure merge into a continuous environment where separation into discrete mediums dissolves. What is presented appears less a collection of finished works than a situation actively shared and persistently reconfigured through use.

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“Living with” and “thinking about” operate as interlacing modes of attention that hold experience at the point of ongoing formation, where repetition begins to accumulate weight, where attention drifts and returns, and where fatigue or small intensities become part of the material itself; thinking moves within this field, slightly out of phase, while what is perceived sustains legibility but never stabilises.

Curated by: Zane Onckule

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About art centre

Kim? is an art centre devoted to ideas, gestures, textures and interventions that shift from “a well-trained chameleon face” (Zane Onckule) to a cadavre exquis, from “a polygon, a laboratory, a lighthouse” (Jānis Borgs) to a hybrid organism. Founded in 2009, Kim? has actively contributed to the art discourse both 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 wider 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.  
(Kaspars Groševs, 2019)