TOKYO HIGHWAY SCENE
Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 film Solaris begins a day before Kris Kelvin sets off for a space station orbiting the oceanic planet from which the movie takes its name. In an episode shot from the perspective of a driving car, we see a city of the future. The images of the vast and fast-paced transportation network […]
HANGING BY A THREAD
The theme of painter Marīte Guščika’s new exhibition “Hanging by a thread” is motion and time, which is elusive and fleeting. Moment as a point of reference that determines the course of events where everything can become different in the span of milliseconds. In her early works, Marīte focused on elements of a geometrical nature that […]
THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME
The exhibition “The Right Place in the Right Place” is based on the artist’s “golden fund” of inspiration and experimental materials – large-scale sculptural installations made of peat pots and “stochastic” fractal paintings made of traces of crow excrement. “Fractalism, which can be found in nature, has entered my inner art space and has become […]
CLOSED: CONCERT IN PROGRESS
Scheduling delays, unplanned material costs, typographical errors, opening day stress, and many other factors are familiar companions in the arsenal of exhibition makers’ experiences. The exhibition “closed. Concert in Progress” is a collection of “deliberate mistakes” by artist Linda Vilka. Her observations, contained in visual compositions of various sizes, cover a range of blunders experienced […]
HEAVEN’S BODIES
From from July 5 to August 25, the Exhibition Hall ‘Riga Contemporary Art Space’ will host a Atis Jākobsons’s solo exhibition ‘Heaven’s bodies’. Amidst the crumbling of the old world and the overwhelming deluge of distressing news, many of us find ourselves besieged by anxiety, exhaustion, and disharmony in our personal lives. Our perceptions become attuned […]
AMIDST SILENCE: DRUNK DADDY’S GIRL
From June 14, the Intro Hall of Riga Art Space will host the solo exhibition ‘Amidst Silence: Drunk Daddy’s Girl’ by the artist Madara Gruntmane. Exhibition will be open to visitors until July 14. What does it mean to witness violence, and how can poetry become a tool for healing? At the heart of contemporary dialogues […]
A LOOK AROUND
From 2 February to 31 March, the Riga Art Space will host a solo exhibition “A Look Around” by the painter Ansis Rozentāls. The exhibition “A Look Around” introduces visitors to the artist’s latest series of paintings, which explore the transformation of the landscape genre through the prism of contemporary art. The exhibition is a […]
PARADE OF FLYING EPISODES
From February 2 to 29, the solo exhibition “Parade of flying episodes” by the scenographer and visual artist Beate Poikane will be on view at the INTRO Hall of the Riga Art Space. Whether hovering above the ground, swimming through the air or swinging with one’s winglike arms – the dream of flight as a […]
FIELDWORK: INVISIBLE EXERCISES
From 3 November to 29 December 2023, the exhibition “Fieldwork: Invisible exercises” by the contemporary fashion and art duo MAREUNROL’S will take place in the Great Hall of the Riga Art Space . This will be the most ambitious representation of the artists’ visual works to date, in which art is highlighted as a sensory […]
I AM BAD
From 28 October to 29 December, the solo exhibition “I am Bad” by the painter Envija will be on view at the INTRO Hall of the Riga Art Space The exhibition is conceived as a territory of expressive, rowdily free painting. It consists of oil paintings in various formats painted over the last two years, […]