| Disobedience
An ongoing video archive
Curated by: Marco Scotini
Assistant curator: Andris Brinkmanis
Disobedience is an archive and a video station about the relationship between artistic practice and civil and social disobedience. Founded in 2005, the project curated by Marco Scotini is a guide to geography of recent protest, from the social struggles in Italy in 1977 to anti-globalisation... |
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| Process - Contemporary Architecture in Latvia
Process. Contemporary Architecture in Latvia is the first exhibition to study the process of contemporary architecture in Latvia involving work of both, local and foreign, architects. Moreover, this is the first architecture exhibition at the Latvian National Museum of Art. Featuring over 300 objects including architectural drawings, models and photographs of about a hundred built and... |
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| Pearls of Russian Music
A concert is scheduled for February 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Old Town Riga's Great Guild Concert Hall as part of the series "Pearls of Russian Music". The soloist will be cellist Marta Sudraba, but conducting the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra - its former chief conductor Gintaras Rinkevicius. The bill features Sergei Prokoviev's Concert Symphony for Cello and Orchestra and Sergei... |
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| Aleksandrs Antoņenko in concert at LNO
On February 29, for the first time, tenor Aleksandrs Antoņenko will perform in concert at the Latvian National Opera. The program includes works by Mascagni, Puccini, Verdi, Lehar and Strauss. With the Opera Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Normunds Vaicis.
The Riga-born and educated Antoņenko is a superb singer who began a successful international career at the age of... |
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| Arnis Balcus - Flowers
London-based Latvian artist Arnis Balcus is showing work from his recent series "Flowers" at Riga Gallery, Latvia. In the series the artist photographs people at their homes and they are completely undressed and accompanied with flower or plant, chosen by them. Created in a classical portraiture manner the large scale photographs try to give an answer to the artist's question if... |
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| Ilze Avotina: The Garden of Memories
Ilze Avotiņa’s solo exhibition “The Garden of Memories” is on view at Riga Gallery 1st and 2nd floor. In 2005 Avotiņa won the competition organised by the Ministry of Culture, received the grant of the State Culture Capital Foundation and spent two months at Cité Internationale des Arts workshop in Paris. There the artist envisaged the show now exhibited at Riga Gallery.... |
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| Gļebs Panteļejevs: Mist Zone
Gļebs Panteļejevs’s latest solo exhibition „Mist Zone” is on view at the Riga Gallery from 29 March 2007. Author himself founds it deliberately conservative because of sculpture classic technique he has used - ten new stand sculpture works made of cast bronze and aluminium is exhibited. |
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| The 7th International Bach Chamber Music Festival
The International Bach Chamber Music Festival is focussed on the intimate, the soulful, the personal. It manifests the producers' desire to reveal Bach from the "quiet side" and show that the relatively few sounds in a chamber music score can say just as much in the way of fundamental ideas, thoughts and content as Bach's major vocal and symphonic compositions. |
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| Stasys Eidrigevičius. Photography.
Stasys Eidrigevičius is an author of more than 200 graphic miniatures, 250 posters, ex libris, pastels, drawings, masks, photography, illustrations for35 children books, sculpture, performance, poetry book Erotyki with drawings, theatre play The White Deer… |
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| "Variations on theme" by Līga Purmale
This exhibition will represent Līga Purmale's new works painted during 2006, which are created to show the urban beauty of the city – overcrowded streets, the pulsation of civilization, the energy and movement of the city. |
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| Catchy Sounds
Andris Vītoliņš is a young Latvian artist who examines the cityscape’s industrial motifs that mainly bear witness to the objects of bygone times – machines, factories and various mechanical elements... |
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| Raimonds Staprāns - Solo exhibition
Raimonds Staprāns (1926) is a Latvian artist living in San Francisco, USA. Staprāns’ artistic achievement is a powerful example of West Coast painting, which has gained recognition in his native Latvia too where he is also known as a playwrighter. |
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| Design Days in Latvia
In October for the first time in Latvia will take place the Design days. During three weeks will be held the exhibitions, the seminars and different events in the enterprises of design creation and distribution. |
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| Public Mirrors
A Retrospective Latvian Poster Art Exhibition - This is the first time that portraits of Latvia at various stages of history have been exhibited on such a large scale. Their uniqueness allows the viewer to appreciate both the masterstrokes of artistic elegance and the iron rules of political power... |
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| ART + COMMUNICATION 2006: WAVES
In 2006 The "Art + Communication" festival, organised by the RIXC in Riga, celebrates its 10th anniversary and the 8th edition. For the first time the festival is conceived as a large-scale exhibition WAVES that looks at electromagnetic waves as the principle material - the medium - of media art. |
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