We’re proud to announce the Kim? Summer Residents 2025: Sui Lam 林淼, Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel, Sebastian Koeck, and Carla Wirsching.
This summer marks the inaugural edition of the Kim? Summer Residency, welcoming four international artists and researchers to Riga, Kim?’s future home at Hanzas 22, to work on their individual projects and engage with the city’s cultural fabric. Their practices—spanning visual art, architecture, and critical writing—bring diverse, transnational perspectives into conversation with the local context. We warmly congratulate the selected residents and look forward to hosting them this summer!
Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel (
@kamilbouzoubaagrivel ) is a French-Moroccan artist whose work navigates the space between digital and manual image-making, transforming virtual elements into hand-drawn forms. He has exhibited internationally and received numerous awards, including the Mustaqbal Prize (2024) and the Takesada Matsutani Prize (2020).
Sui Lam 林淼 (
@ssusui_ ) is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and writer from Hong Kong, currently working across the Nordics, Baltics, UK, Taiwan, and Japan. Their practice explores language, identity, and personal narratives through audiovisual media, photography, printmaking, and multilingual writing.
Sebastian Koeck (
@sebaskoeck ) creates site-specific installations that explore absence, memory, and the poetic potential of vernacular material. His work reflects on history, chance, and the exhibition format itself as a medium for resistance and reflection.
Carla Wirsching (
@carla_wir ) is a German architect and researcher focused on the heritage of socialist modernism in post-Soviet countries. She currently works at TU Munich and contributes to architecture-related publishing, including the Zurich-based journal archithese.
![Exchange Diaries: Open StudioStudio No. 207, Hanzas iela 2211–13 JulyAs part of the Kim? Summer Residency, Sui Lam 林淼 [ @ssusui_ ] and Agnes Klein [ @________agnesklein ] open a new chapter in their diary of exchange as a creative duo—exploring personal narratives, cultural intersections, and the evolving nature of identity.Summer Works @smmrwrks is a Riga / Munich-based architecture collective active in schools of many kinds, founded by Māra Starka and Carla Wirsching. In a series of field trips and reading sessions, they study the footprints of post-war architecture.Given the spatial context of Hanzas 22, they are particularly interested in examining abandonment (of schoolhouses) as a spatial education practice, to challenge paradigms such as school reforms, school networks and classrooms through the lens of spatial production.Their studio at Kim? has become an archive-in-progress — part investigation board, part collage of small moments collected across Latvia. From 11 to 13 July, Studio No. 206 at Hanzas iela 22 will transform into an open space for sharing stories and collective memories of the strangely familiar yet deeply personal school experiences we share.Sui, a Hongkonger navigating life across Europe—particularly in the North—and Agnes, a Latvian with creative roots stretching into Asia, have spent the residency exchanging thoughts and stories through conversation and collaboration.Agnes brings a playful, human-centered approach to storytelling—curating objects, writing and film fragments, with a situationist’s eye. Sui shares multilingual poetry and audiovisual experiments that explore language, belonging, and cultural memory, with a focus on often-overlooked connections between Latvian and Asian narratives.Exchange Diaries is a checkpoint, a departure point and a starting point—a space for curiosity, connection, and the beginning of a longer journey. It celebrates stories that move across languages, lands, and lives.](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6714613241496468482960_0_ca59d6c4244221363e5a0a51b6aa559f.jpg?o=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&h=a1350e84c361f2cde6c330babf2eb598)
