Regarding the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art exhibition at Dubulti Art Station

13/08/2018

The viewer gets hit in the senses right away, having barely stepped inside the station. There’s loud, instrumental music playing and a pungent smell that’s difficult to define. The latter, it turns out, is the work of Norwegian artist Sissel Tolaas, who has placed a number of “sources” throughout the space exuding concentrates of aromas encountered throughout the Baltic Sea region. Read more...

09/08/2018

Novitskova is an artist who delicately and thrillingly plays with things and phenomena that form our reality on a universal level; she is interested in virtual reality, digital anthropology, reusing images, and visual ecology. Ultimately, the main vector in her development as an artist could be taken to be the timely and quite complex question: ‘How is it possible to be an artist in a world that is already oversaturated with images?’ Read more...

An interview with British artist David Shrigley

06/08/2018

“The thing is, you only have so much time as it is, so you have to use that time. It’s very easy to do nothing, and it’s very easy to make excuses for doing nothing, but I think that there is just time to work. I always tell myself that it doesn’t matter if what you’ve done is bad, as long as you’ve done it. Obviously, you have a responsibility to definitely edit what you do before you show it to anybody, but there’s no excuse for not making it.” Read more...

03/08/2018

July 20 saw the opening of the interdisciplinary exhibition "(Per)forming Scapes" at Nida Art Colony – an artist residency based in Nida, Lithuania. The exhibition is part of the 22nd annual Thomas Mann festival, and it brings together various artists from Lithuania, Germany and Slovenia. As stated in the exhibition guide, those involved would actually like to refrain from calling this event an exhibition; instead, they define it as a visual, auditory, performative and interactive experience that is centered around the Curonian Spit itself – the location of the artist residency. Read more...