An interview with Baiba Bartkeviča, artistic director of Liepājas Mākslas forums (Liepāja Art Forum)

18/09/2018

From September 28 to 30, the Great Amber concert hall in Liepāja will host the annual contemporary art festival Liepāja Art Forum. This year’s festival will feature more than ten events representing various genres of art, headlined by a combination of Latvia’s top artists and notable genre-leaders from abroad. Read more...

17/09/2018

The dates for the Purvītis Prize 2019 exhibition, the composition of the prize’s international jury, and a list of special events related to the exhibition were announced on September 14, 2018, during the press briefing for Daudzskanis, a large-format sound sculpture by Anna Salmane, Krišs Salmanis and Kristaps Pētersons, in the Cupola Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art. Read more...

12/09/2018

At 4pm on September 15, the autumn season of Helsinki’s Kiasma Theatre will begin with a performance ofOrcas and Volcanoes – Incantation Karaoke by the Netherlands-based Lithuanian artist Eglė Budvytytė . Eglė Budvytytė’s performance is part of the currently ongoing exhibition There and Back Again: Contemporary Art from the Baltic Region (through March 24), which addresses what it means to live in a specific geographic location and how that influences a person’s identity as well as their mental and physical sense of belonging. Read more...

An interview with Sumesh Sharma, one of the curators of Survival Kit 10.0

10/09/2018

‘I didn’t have a professional art education, and I began to work at a bank; then I decided that that wasn’t for me. Around that time I met Zasha Colah, curator and art historian with a keen interest in the intersections of folklore and the act of storytelling with the field of contemporary visual and conceptual art.’ Read more...