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'Mules' (2017). Installation view. Courtesy the artists + Kim?, Riga.
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'Mules' (2017). Installation view. Courtesy the artists + Kim?, Riga.

Looking beyond human exceptionalism in Mules at Riga’s Kim?

, 1 March 2017
The Mules group exhibition is on at Riga’s kim? Contemporary Art Centre, opening February 3 and running to March 12.

The show is a ‘teleportation’ of Moles, a recent shows curated by Egija Inzule for Berlin’s Museum for Photography and both are a collaboration between Lydia AD, Carl Berzow, Mania Godarzani-Bakhtiari, Isabel Gatzke, Max Göran, Annika Högner, Egija Inzule, Elias Johansson, Ekaterina Reinbold, Caio Soares, and Michel Wagenschütz. Both exhibitions are part of ongoing series called Seen By between Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin and the University of Arts Berlin.

‘Factoid #4.’ Collaborative work from ‘Moles’, (2016). Courtesy the artists + Kim?, Riga

The artists are brought together to “challenge methodological individualism and human exceptionalism,” and all are also involved in other groups and organizations such as D.U.M.P., hec, HellFun, Interflugs, Institut S 3000, No play, Roda/Born, and Raumerweiterungshalle.

Founded in 2009, kim? is “no less than an abbreviation of an insistent question “what is art?” (“kas ir māksla?” in Latvian)” and is a space that hosts exhibitions, lectures, discussions, a library and other events related to art, theory and social issues.**

The Mules group exhibition at Riga’s Contemporary Art Centre kim? opened February 3 and is running until March 12, 2017.