Riga Photography Biennial 2020 Central Event - Exhibition Screen Age II: Landscape

12.09.-18.10.2020.

From September 12 to October 18 this year, the exhibition hall “Riga Art Space” Great Hall will offer its visitors the opportunity to be a part of the central event of the Riga Photography Biennale – the international exhibition &ld...

Riga Photography Biennial 2020 exhibition - 6 x 6 / 36

12.09.-18.10.2020.

From September 12 to October 18 this year, the central event of the Riga Photography Biennale 2020 “6x6/36” will take place at the exhibition hall “Riga Art Space” Intro Hall. The 6 x 6 / 36 project materializes the work unde...

Riga Photography Biennial 2020. Symposium ‘There is no such place as destination’

12.09.2020. 12:00-17:00

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.Marcel ProustIn 2012 James Elkins published the book What Photography Is. It was, as he says himself: “written, in the first instance, against Rola...

Riga Photography Biennial 2020. Discussion ‘Visions of Future’

18.09.2020. 18:00-19:30

The notion of post-internet has frequently featured in contemporary art exhibitions and theoretical articles of the last decade. Media theorist and artist Marisa Olson was one of the first to start using the term in the discourse of contemporary art ...

Riga Photography Biennial 2020. ‘Secret meeting’ – workshop with Līga Spunde

20.09.2020. 12:00-16:00

For some time now fake news has become a mundane phenomenon. Most of us are aware of its presence and yet feel confused when confronting it.Technically projecting reality and creating ostensibly an indubitable depiction of reality, photography replac...

Riga Photography Biennial 2020. Discussion ‘Contemporary Culture Festivals & Urban Development’

24.09.2020. 18:00. The discussion has been moved to online format.

A dynamic and diverse culture is undoubtedly an indicator of a healthy urban environment and certain quality of life. And yet, creating and experiencing art is often still considered a bonus, failing to recognize the role of culture in the socio-econ...