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We are delighted to share that the first two residents of Kai Residency 2025 will join us in Tallinn this spring: curator Monika Lipšic (Lithuania) and artist Annemarija Gulbe (Latvia). They will present their practices at Kai office on Tuesday, March 25 at 4pm.
Launched in 2019, Kai Residency provides a platform for international artists, curators, and writers to develop their work in Tallinn while connecting with the local cultural scene. As the only residency of its kind in Estonia, it fosters exchange, dialogue, and collaboration between visiting residents and Estonian art practitioners. The next Open Call for Kai Residency will be announced on April 15th. Applications will be accepted then for residencies beginning in Fall 2025.
The spring 2025 winners were selected by an international jury: Kjersti Solbakken, Director of Bergen Kunsthall, Viviana Checchia, Director of Void Art Centre and Co-Director of Vessel; Kari Conte, Residency Curator at Kai Art Center and Senior Advisor at ISCP New York; and Karin Laansoo, Artistic Director of Kai Art Center and Executive Director of ECADC.
Monika Lipšic is a curator working across exhibitions, events, texts, and performances. Her recent projects, such as The Letters of the Lioness at Drifts Gallery in Vilnius, explore history through materiality and ideas. She co-curated The Invisibles: Historic Furniture from a Contemporary Design Perspective (Museum of Applied Arts and Design, 2022), organized The Storm (Pamario Gallery, 2021), and curated the performance program Wheel of Fortune (Rupert’s 10th anniversary, 2022). Lipšic is also the co-founder of the Videograms video art festival and the thegoodneighbour.lt platform, and she has collaborated with institutions including Blaffer Art Museum (Houston), Wattis Arts Institute (San Francisco), Tallinn CCA, Kunstverein Amsterdam, and Nomas Foundation (Rome). Monika will be in residency from March 17th to April 21st.
Annemarija Gulbe is an artist working with photography, video, and installation. She holds a BA and MA from the Art Academy of Latvia and has studied photography at ISSP School and Andrejs Grants’ Studio. Gulbe has received numerous awards, including the Kim? Open Call (2023), the BDO Young Artists Award finalist (2023), and the Grand Prix at Jeune Création Européene in Paris (2019). Her recent solo exhibitions include Faith to Believe – or Not (Kim? Contemporary Art Center, 2024) and Under Stone Vaults in Domed Structures (Alsunga, 2023). She also engages in curatorial work, organizing exhibitions in Latvian rural and historical settings, such as Decentrality Dispersed in One Place at Padure Manor (2023). Annemarija will be in residency from March 18th to May 18th.
Kai office has limited space so kindly RSVP to the Residents’ presentation to secure your spot to keidi@kai.center by March 23rd at the latest. Please note that we may run out of seats before that.
Kai Residency is supported by Nordic Culture Point.
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