“Science and technologies in the name of art?”     Venue: Art Academy of Latvia (Kalpaka boulevard 13), room 19 Date: January 19 – 20, 2012 Does there is a connection or link between science, technologies and art? From 20th century and in the last decade artists frequently chooses not to use traditional materials [...]

EUROPEAN PUBLIC ART CENTRE The opening of Gints Gabrāns artwork „The Nerves”   Publicity photo   Duration: September 17, 2011 – October 17, 2011 Opening: September 17, 2011, 7 p.m. Place: Kaļķu square, Old Riga, LV – 1050   The first public art exhibition held across eight countries in Europe focuses on relations between art, [...]

On the August 29th, at 6:00 PM the grand opening of “Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 2008 – Dictatorship of the Majority” will take place in the experimental lab “Pink House” (in “Spīķeri”). A small and peculiar traffic buss will take off on 4:00 PM from “Pink House”, carrying in it Latvian and foreign artists, attorneys of jury, the main organizers of quadrennial – Kristaps Gulbis and Aigars Bikše together with attorney of mass media. They will take a small, offhand tour to look at all the objects that are installed in Riga environment within the framework of this project.

The Centre for Art Management and Information (MMIC) in cooperation with VAS “Latvijas Dzelzsceļš” (LDz) presents the new catalogue opening festivity (from the exhibition “The Train hasn’t gone yet”), which will take place in the bookstore and the point of intersection – “1/4 Satori” (Lāčplēša street 31) on Thursday, December 2, at 6 P.M. In the catalogue [...]

Public Space and Intercultural Dialogue, Riga, Latvia, November 25th, 26th, 2010 /Photo from MMIC's archive/ SCULPTURE QUADRENNIAL RIGA 2012 will continue previous essential themes – society and contemporary art, art in public space, accessibility of art, etc. In order to raise the awareness of art professionals and culture managers on these issues, several activities already [...]