WALKING TOGETHER
From 18 August, Riga Art Space will host the Portuguese Contemporary Ceramics exhibition ‘Walking Together’ that will take place within the framework of 4th Latvia Ceramics Biennale. Exhibition will be open to visitors until 30 September. A journey through Portuguese contemporary ceramics with the Aveiro International Biennale of Artistic Ceramics collection WALKING TOGETHER is a […]
ON THE EDGE OF CHANGE
From 11 June till 6 August, an exhibition of Baltic contemporary graphic arts, ON THE EDGE OF CHANGE will be held in exhibition hall “Rīgas mākslas telpa” (Riga Art Space), as part of the international graphic arts festival PRINTMAKING IN 2023. A great number of Baltic artists of various generations shall participate in the exhibition […]
DECOLONIAL ECOLOGIES: UNDERSTANDING POSTCOLONIAL AFTER SOCIALISM
The exhibition Decolonial Ecologies: Understanding Postcolonial after Socialism aims to explore the complex entanglements of postcolonial and postsocialist imprints in contemporary society and culture in Latvia, the Baltics, and its neighboring regions through the prism of environmental history and changes, and the current ecological crisis. Postcolonial and decolonial approaches to rethinking the complex relations between […]
ЛАВ = LOVE
From the collections of Andrejs Strokins, Irēna Bužinska, Bolderājas Grupa Curator Inga Brūvere Collecting is an interesting phenomenon; it is one of the most important cogs in the mechanism that maintains world order. Collecting is based on the natural instinct to hoard, which, of course, is not always perceived as something positive and does not […]
SCREEN AGE III: STILL LIFE
The exhibition Screen Age III: Still Life continues a series from 2018 that poses existentially pressing questions through observing the way technology is slowly changing people today. How deeply has human consciousness become inseparable from the technological solutions that grow increasingly useful and convenient with each day? Are we the same individuals that we were […]
CONNECTIONS
From 29 December, the large hall of the Riga Art Space will host a joint exhibition “Connections” by two artists – the daughter Baiba Ābelīte and the father Visvaldis Asaris. It will be open to visitors until 6 February 2022. The exhibition “Connections” is the result of a cooperation between two different artists – urban […]
GEO
As soon as it will be possible to open cultural spaces to visitors, the exhibition hall “Riga Art Space” will hold the exhibition of Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center collection “GEO”. The artistic concept of the “GEO” exhibition project is based on a combination of two unifying aspects – geographical diversity and geometric forms of […]
THERE IS NO SUCH PLACE AS DESTINATION
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust In 2012 James Elkins published the book What Photography Is. It was, as he says himself: “written, in the first instance, against Roland Barthes’s book. I was concerned that even after thirty years, Camera Lucida is still the […]
6 x 6 / 36
From September 12 to October 18 this year, the central event of the Riga Photography Biennale 2020 “6×6/36” will take place at the exhibition hall “Riga Art Space”. The 6 x 6 / 36 project materializes the work undertaken by the Nunc Collective (Clarisse Bardiot, Annick Bureaud, Jean-Luc Soret and Cyril Thomas) to explore new […]
SCREEN AGE II: LANDSCAPE
From September 12 to October 18 this year, the exhibition hall “Riga Art Space” will offer its visitors the opportunity to be a part of the central event of the Riga Photography Biennale – the international exhibition “Screen Age II: Landscape”, curated by Inga Brūvere and Marie Sjovold (NO) in cooperation with the Association of […]