RIGA ART SPACE

Snow Crystals and Electric Sparks

22.12.-19.01.2017.

Black and white photographs from the study of snow crystals and electric sparks in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, under the guidance of physicist Ukichiro Nakaya (1900-1962). Both phenomena are characterized by their uniqueness - the forms of snow cry...

Aija Zariņa, Kaspars Brambergs, Ginters Krumholcs, Artūrs Virtmanis

03.02.-26.03.2017.

In Latvian, there is a saying - “no laika gala”. This means - since the beginning of time, since time immemorial.  An idiom, as a language unit with semantic layering or common meaning, functions only in a certain context of language...

Roots / Tops

28.02.-26.03.2017.

The sap of life flows from the roots to the tree-tops so that new branches can grow and the foliage can increase and regenerate. For 30 years, with the continuation of the Māra Muižniece Riga Art School, more and more young people have been studying ...

From Baroque to the Present Day

07.04.-18.06.2017.

What Riga Porcelain Factory in the 20th century Latvia has to do with “Kahla” Porcelain Factory in Germany? What J.Jakšs’ trading house in the 19th century Rigas has to do with “TC Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co” ...

Collection / Latvian International Ceramics Bienniale

07.04.-30.07.2017.

The exhibition takes place in cooperation with Daugavpils Clay Art Center and Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center. The exhibition features works by 118 authors from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Israel, Belarus, Luxembourg, the Cz...

Ieva Ekmane. Me as You

07.07.-30.07.2017.

The young artist Ieva Ekmane's solo exhibition "Me as You" is a series of paintings that tell about the meeting point between the artist and the viewer of her work. It is a story about the search for a common resonance in each of us, about the inner ...

Raul Meel. Territory of Silence

11.08.-27.08.2017.

Raul Meel (1941) is an Estonian classic - an avant-garde artist who works as a conceptual minimalist, creating abstract compositions. His works are dominated by a graphic study of signs and symbols - an interplay of formal means of expression and con...

Happiness Knows the World

08.09.-12.11.2017.

From September 8 to November 12, in the Large Hall of “Riga Art Space” the exhibition “Happiness Knows the World” will be open to the public. It showcases the works of Māris Subačs, created this year while thinking about happi...

Private Abecedarium

09.09.-08.10.2017.

The exhibition consists of 33 large-format works, where the artist uses one letter of the Latvian alphabet as the basic element of artistic expression. Abandoning his personal symbolism and approaching the perception of collective consciousness, with...