Artist: Karlīna Mežecka Curator: Žanete Liekīte Title: Archive of Fragility Venue: Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga Turning to the poetics of regional space and human emotional experience within it, the artist Karlīna Mežecka reflects on categories of fragility. The images of the space “move in both directions: they are in us as much as we …
Artists: Ieva Balode, Kristaps Epneras, Viktors Timofeevs and Arturs Virtmanis Title: Cosmic Existence Venue: Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2019 Photo: Margarita Ogoļceva, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2019 “Cosmic Existence” – first exhibition of the project “Unexpected Encounters” “Unexpected Encounters” is a research and exhibition project that explores the relationship between science fiction, art …
by Simon Hewitt How is East European art developing from a Western European point of view? Where do Western collectors look when they hunt in East? What is the next ‘big thing’ for Western collectors to look for in Eastern Europe? Which countries can become a market focus – and why? Those were the questions fired …
The international contemporary art exhibition Lost in the Archive, organised by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in partnership with the Association of Culture Institutions of Riga Municipality, will be open from the 5th February at the exhibition hall Riga Art Space. The exhibition explores the archive of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA), …
ABOUT THE PROJECT Easttopics is a non-profit initiative launched in 2013, led by young art professionals based in Hungary and Serbia and dedicated to the promotion of the Eastern European contemporary art field. Working as a think tank for the Eastern European art communities, Easttopics is a genuinely interdisciplinary cooperative which goal is to draw …