21/01/2019

With the arrival of the new year, it is time to review the latest lineup of cultural events and make sure that we note down on our schedules the best and brightest art happenings anticipated in the months ahead. Cultural life in Latvia continues to flourish as never before, offering listeners, viewers and the general public an event programme no less broader in scope than in the previous season, thereby reassuringly placing Latvia on the list of top cultural destinations in 2019. Read more...

17/01/2019

The professional group of experts on the nominating committee that selects the candidates for the Purvītis Prize, Latvia’s highest award in the visual arts, has closed their two-year period of deliberation (December 8, 2016 – December 31, 2019) and has announced eight artists/artist groups as finalists for the 2019 Purvītis Prize. Read more...

Through 11 February 2019, Galerie Iragui in Moscow is hosting ‘Notes on Being Present’, an exhibition by the Estonian artist Krista Mölder.

16/01/2019

Krista Mölder works mostly in video and photography, and her works address a unique poetic dimension in the space that surrounds us. Genuinely meditative and philosophical, they are sometimes reminiscent of something like a visual hokku where the means of expression are quite laconic yet surprisingly multifaceted. Read more...

14/01/2019

This winter, the KUMU art museum has been pervaded by the spirit of the 1990s:  1 November 2018 saw the curators Eha Komissarov and Anders Härm open the exhibition ‘The X-Files [Registry of the Nineties]’ on Floor V of the Gallery of Contemporary Art (open through 14 April 2019). The show focuses on experimental and critical works dating from the time and marking a ‘change of paradigms” in the Estonian post-socialist art. Read more...