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Kaspars Groševs (b. 1983) is a Lithuanian artist and curator based in Riga. In 2014 he co-founded 427 gallery - an open and experimental art space interested in connecting communities, daring ideas, confabulations, and adventurous art practices. He has exhibited at Cēsis Contemporary Art Centre, the National Art Museum in Riga, Editorial in Vilnius, darkZone in New Jersey, No Moon and Art in General in New York, Futura in Prague, BOZAR in Brussels, Shanaynay in Paris, SIC in Helsinki, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga. Groševs has curated a variety of exhibitions at the City Surfer Office in Prague (2022), Skulptur Institut in Vienna (2022), Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga (2020, 2019, 2015), P////AKT in Amsterdam (2020), Polansky Gallery in Brno (2019), and several off-spaces in Riga. Groševs has been experimenting with music since the late 90's, he's frequently appeared on radio NABA since 2003. He has co-run the cassette label No Sex Just Talk since 2017. Two-time finalist of the Purvītis Award (2021, 2023).
selected shows
2024
KOMISAS, Vilnius Tech Zity, Vilnius (fair)
2024
Art Vilnius: 427 at Project Zone, curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas, LitExpo, Vilnius (fair)
2024
An Avarage Comet, Harkawik, New York (group)
2024
New Address: EDEN, curated by Zane Onckule, Evita Goze, Žanete Liekīte, Hanzas 22, Rīga (group)
2024
Padsmit minūtes (Formative Years), curated by Zane Onckule, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Rīga (group)
2024
Recorded. Replayed. From a phonograph to a music centre, curated by Anete Skuja, National Library of Latvia, Rīga (group)
2024
Café de Paris, TUR telpa, Rīga (solo)
2023
Purvītis Award 2023, Latvian National Museum of Art, Rīga (group)
2022
Out of the Corner of the Eye, Editorial, Vilnius (group)
2022
Blue Lagoon House, with Evita Vasiļjeva, curated by Daiga Rudzāte and Žanete Skarule, Cēsis Contemporary Art Centre, Cēsis (duo)
2022
The Old Man Goes Home, Editorial, Vilnius (solo)
2021
Survival Kit 12, curated by Övül Ö. Durmușoğlu and Joanna Warsza, Ojārs Vācietis Museum, Rīga (group)
2021
Purvītis Award 2021, Latvian National Museum of Art, Rīga (group)
2020
Arterritory Atbalstissimo, gallery Putti, Rīga (fair)
2020
NADA Miami 2020, collaboration between Kim?/427/Low, Riga (fair)
2020
Under One's Breath, w/ Marta Trektere, Editorial, Vilnius (group)
2020
Salon de Normandy by The Community with 427 gallery, Hotel Normandy, Paris (fair)
2020
Palette: Three-legged Evidence by Daria Melnikova, Roots to Routs, Salon du Salon, Marseille (group)
2020
Memory, with Marta Trektere, 427 gallery, Riga (duo)
2020
Autonomia, Noass, Riga (solo)
2020
Sound We See. Space We Hear, curated by Daiga Rudzāte and Žanete Skarule, Cēsis Contemporary Art Center (group)
2020
Garden of Death, Part VII: Ailuros, organized by Plague, w/ Marta Trektere, The Small Guild, Riga (collab)
2020
Retrospect 1996-1999,
darkZone, New Jersey (solo)
2019
Fat Gnomes (Ears of New Jersey), in collaboration with Ieva Putniņa, Riga Circus Elephant Stable, Rīga (duo)
2019
Luksafors, No Moon, New York (solo)
2019
Velni un pelni, Madona Local History and Art Museum, Madona (solo)
2018
DOPESMOKER, Micēlijs, Rīga (solo)
2018
Ode to Trouble, organized by Mikko Kuorinki at the guest appartment of Hordaland Art Center, Bergen (group)
2018
Global Control and Censorship, curated by Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás and Bernhard Serexhe, National Library of Latvia, Rīga (group)
2018
Somewhere in Between,
Disorder, curated by Komplot, Bozar, Brussels (group)
2017
Groundhog Day, curated by Andreas Nilsson, SIC, Helsinki (group)
2017
NNN, Latvian National Museum of Art, Rīga (group)
2017
121-1, in collaboration with Marta Trektere, Low, Rīga (duo)
2017
Divdabis (with Jānis Borgs), curated by Andra Silapētere, Latvian National Museum of Art, Rīga (duo)
2017
Young Popes, Latvian Institute Rome, Rome (group)
2016
Dacing Water, with Ieva Kraule, curated by Lumir Nykl, Futura, Prague (duo)
2016
I didn’t have wi-fi, so I started to paint, C.C. von Strizky’s villa, Rīga (solo)
2016
San Serriffe, Riga Art Space (group)
2016
SWIM has issues, galerii, Tallinn (solo)
2016
Lost in the Archive, curated by Inga Lāce and Andra Silapētere, Riga Art Space (group)
2015
Helsinki Group, curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas, HIAP Augustra gallery, Helsinki (group)
2015
XII Baltic Triennial, with Ieva Kraule, curated by Virginija Januškevičiūtė, CAC, Vilnius (group)
2015
Le fragole del Baltico, curated by Simone Menegoi and Zane Onckule, Careof, Milano (group)
2015
Kilometre of Sculpture: The Visitors, curated by Andreas Nilsson, Voru (group)
2015
Qu'est-ce que ça peut faire tout ça, with Ieva Kraule, Shanaynay, Paris (duo)
2015
Lily’s Pool, Art in General, New York (group)
2014
OAOA (Jūras griesti), in collaboration with Ola Vasiljeva, Jūras Vārti, Ventspils (duo)
2014
Aspen-Kemmern, curated by Zane Onckule and Jānis Taurens, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Rīga (group)
2013
The Last Exhibition, Literature and Music Museum, Rīga (group)
2013
00:10:00:00, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Rīga (solo)
2012
H, KKC, Rīga (solo)
2011
I/O. Without Enemies, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Rīga (solo)
2010
Rauma Biennale Balticum X, in collaboration w/ Ruta Kiškyte, Daria Meļņikova, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
2009
Погружение, curated by Maria Udovydchenko, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (group)
curatorial projects
2023
Zane Hanele Putniņa, PAiR* Pāvilosta
2023
Screening co-hosted by 427, Pinacoteca, Vienna
2023
Sardines, Garage Gallery, Prague
2022
427 Collection, Skulptur Institut, Vienna
2022
Soap Opera, City Surfer Office (SUMO Prague 2022), Prague
2021
Lagoon, collaborative art and event venue, a kiosk, Vagonu iela 19/21, Rīga
2020
Ieva Kraule-Kūna & Elina Vītola – The Space Conductors Are Among Us, Part IV, P/////AKT, Amsterdam
2020
Līva Rutmane. PRR, Kim? Contemporary Art Cetre, Riga
2019
Black Market, Kim? Contemporary Art Cetre, Riga
2019
I had amnesia once or twice, Polansky Gallery, Brno
2019
A Very Small Window, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Rīga
2018
kristāls sekunde mode, 427 gallery, Rīga (with Marta Trektere)
2018
Oчевидное невероятное, 427 gallery, Rīga
2017
White Walkers, Tallinas 10, Rīga
2015
Exit, stuttering & nebula, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Rīga
2015
Īrisa Erbse. Fermentation, 427 gallery, Rīga
2015
M.S. (publication & show), 427 gallery, Rīga (with Ieva Kraule)
2014
A Guide to Making a Genie, 427 gallery, Rīga (with Ieva Kraule)
2014
FAREWELL, 427 gallery, Rīga (with Ieva Kraule)
selected performances & projects
2014-2013
Never-Ending Concerts I-VIII, series of extended performative events at the best bars of Riga (Chomsky (2014); Bolderāja (2015, 2019, 2020); Pils (2017); Aleponija (2018); Auss (2021); Mr. Greedy CBD Coffee Shop (2023)
2021-2022
Žēlojumi (Lamentations), radio play by the Center for Tragic Research (Ainārs Kamoliņš, Daiga Kažociņa, Kaspars Groševs), Radio NABA
2018
Raudive’s Radio, theater play directed by Daiga Kažociņa, DDT, Rīga
2017
I AS IN US, exhibition/performance by Cian McConn, Vivienne Griffin in collaboration with Kaspars Groševs, Katrina Damigos, Paul Dunca, curated by Cristina Bogdan, MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
2016
Release Your Inner Dolphins, with Vivienne Griffin and Cian McConn, Survival Kit 8, C.C. von Strizky’s villa, Rīga
2016
%20, live at the opening of the Baltic pavillion at 15th International Achitecture Exhibition La Biennalle Di Venezia
2016
Personal Contract for the Composition of Nebula, LCCA Summer School Error?!, Rucka, Cēsis
2015
Things, exhibition/theater play by the Center for Tragic Research, directed by Daiga Kažociņa, DDT, Rīga
2013
Open Close Thing, solo exhibition by Cian McConn, closing performance in collaboration with Vivienne Griffin, Cian McConn, Tintype Gallery, London
2012
Drop Everything, performance in collaboration w/ Cian McConn, Vivienne Griffin, Inis Oirr, Galway
2008
I Am Here, The Time Is Now, curated by Ong Keng Sen, in collaboration w/ Krišs Zilgalvis, Rotterdamse Schouwburg Theater, Rotterdam
press
Sākt no beigām un iet uz sākumu, Ieva Raudsepa, IR (April 2024)
OnoTesla w/ Kaspars Groševs, NTS Radio (June 2023)
Process > result, or notes on running a project space for those who need a sign to start one, By Brigit Arop, A Shade Colder (April 2023)
Skaistums un posts. Intervija ar Evitu Vasiļjevu un Kasparu Groševu, Agnese Čivle, Delfi (April 2023)
No Ziedoņa līdz Ždanokai. «Radio Nabas» vēsturē ielūkojas Ingmāra Balode un Kaspars Groševs, Latvijas NABA (December 2022)
Monopols, Latvijas Radio 1 (November 2022)
An Artist-Run Oasis, Aka the Blue Lagoon House, by Žanete Liekīte, Echo Gone Wrong (October 2022)
Pagātnes un tagadnes gaismas bruņinieki. Cēsu Mākslas festivāla izstāžu recenzija, Santa Hirša, KDiena (August 2022)
Kāpjot pāri ieturētām manierēm, Toms Treibergs, Latvijas Radio 1 (June 2021)
Against good taste, interview with Viestarts Gailītis, Arterritory.com (April 2021)
Visa istaba izdzīvota, Līnas Birzakas-Priekules intervija, KDiena (March 2021)
OnoTesla w/ Kaspars Groševs, NTS Radio (August 2020)
Ko šobrīd dara mākslinieks? Kaspars Groševs Rīgā un Cēsīs, Radio Naba (July 2020)
Subjektīvie mērījumi. Kaspars Groševs no 427, Radio Naba (March 2020)
Kaspars Groševs in conversation with Līva Rutmane, Echo Gone Wrong (January 2019)
In Conversation With Àngels Miralda, Daily Lazy (December 2018)
Mākslinieka domu konspekts, Jāņa Taurena eseja, Punktum Magazine (October 2018)
Kaspars Groševs in conversation with Ieva Kraule, Echo Gone Wrong (July 2017)
Postcard from Vilnius & Riga, by Elvia Wilk, Frieze (May 2017)
Primitive. Messy. Low Quality, interview with Cam Phillips, Eastern Daze (January 2017)
Strādāju, kamēr ir interesanti, intervija ar Tomasu Pārupu, KDiena (January 2017)
Zolitūde (w/ Viktor Timofeev), special presentation, O Fluxo (December 2016)
Soulpeek, review by Rihards Bražinskis, Echo Gone Wrong (December 2016)
Turpinājums bez nosaukuma, Punctum Magazine (November 2016)
Es arī tā varētu, intervija ar Lauru Brokāni, Arterritory (October 2016)
Conversation with Valts Miķelsons, Echo Gone Wrong (October, 2016)
Photos from the studio by Agnija Grigule, Arterritory (October 2016)
…that little phrase by Vinteuil…, review by Jānis Taurens, Echo Gone Wrong (September 2016)
Parallelle universa Eeen bezoek aan Riga, Weronika Trojanska, Metropolis M 2016/No. 2 (April 2016)
Riga Roundup, Barbara Casavecchia, Art Agenda (February 2016)
A Survey of some art in Riga, Jean Kay, AQNB (January 2016)
From poetry to mumble. Conversition as objects in space, review by Weronika Trojanska, Arterritory (January 2016)
Kad lietas top par notikumiem, Traģisko pētījumu centra intervija ar Igoru Gubenko, Punctum Magazine (October 2015)
A Studio Conversation with Mirja Majevski, Monday Art (September 2015)
Revolutions Per Minute, article, Studija Magazine No. 87 (November 2012)
discography
2024
Kobruvīrs - Budas piens: Neizdotie gabali 2004-2007, cassette,
Sāpes Skaņas
2024
Figūras/Kaspars Groševs - Spective Mixtape, limited edition of recycled cassettes, self-published
2024
Figūras - Quadrat, cassette, self-published
2023
Figūras - Figūras, LP, Ono
2016
Zolitūde - Zolitūde, with Viktor Timofeev, digital album, Quantum Natives
2016
VA - Artists’ Voices, with Vivienne Griffin, triple LP, Edition du Centre d’édition contemporaine, Genève
2015
White Tapes, 8 cassette demo
2014
Figūras - Figūras, cassette, self-published
residencies
2024 Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2016 Futura, Prague
2015 Rupert, Vilnius
2011 Žagare
Since 2014
427
Since 2017
Radio San Serriffe
Since 2017
No Sex Just Talk
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