Riga Photography Biennial 2024 kicked off already in April, but its exhaustive programme has many gems worth discovering until mid-July. Here are some events that the organisers of the biennial recommend to visit when going to Riga!
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The 15th edition of the Baltic Triennial will open on 6 September 2024 and will run until early 2025. Curated by Tom Engels and Maya Tounta, it will be one of the first projects to open at the CAC’s main venue in the Old Town of Vilnius, which is currently…
The seafront quarter Noblessner invites visitors with a versatile restaurant scene, KAI art centre, PROTO invention factory, a promenade and a marina, but the area also hides a new bubbling gallery scene. NOBA had a chance to interview Marina Russakova, the founder of the new contemporary photo gallery PUNCTUM, which…
“The exhibition feels relevant and hopeful, not least because the artist’s approach rejects a way of thinking that has facilitated the industrial exploitation of nature and replaces it with a philosophy of light footprints – a mode of storytelling that is oral and musical in nature, not carved into the…
This year the Riga Photography Biennial (RFB) is taking place for the fifth time. Continuing to follow the development of image culture, the RFB invites to think about identity with a wide-ranging program of exhibitions and education in Riga and Sigulda from 18 April to 14 July.
Just a short while ago, ANISA (Aleksandra Ianchenko), had an exhibition called "Tram factor" that was part of her artistic research and a doctoral dissertation. Her research is based on her artistic practice and answers the questions of what tram atmospheres are and how they can be studied through art.…
Billboards depicting destroyed public spaces are on display in Tallinn's Õismäe, Mustamäe and Lasnamäe.
Edith Karlson will present Hora lupi for the Estonian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia from 20 April 20 until 24 November 2024. Presented at the church of Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Penitenti, the exhibition explores primitive human urges in their banality and solemnity and questions the…
Kevin Kleinmann, a passionate explorer of music and art, Nordic design and life in general, opens the doors of his well curated apartment in Kunstihoone.
The most popular exhibition in The Finnish Museum of Photographic Art's history is Pentti Sammallahti's "The Two of Us", opened a few months ago. By the turn of the year, it had already been visited by more than 34,000 people.
On Friday 10 November 2023, the Young Painter’s Prize art competition (YPP) has marked its fifteenth anniversary and held the award ceremony which was followed by the opening of the YPP finalists’ group show in the Museum of Applied Art and Design. This year, the main prize went to the…
Until the end of the year Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toruń presents an international exhibition SERENISSIMA EAST, highlighting Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian art from 1990 to today.
The international contemporary art fair ArtVilnius'23 kicks off this Friday, taking over the halls of LITEXPO between 13–15 October. The fair celebrates its 14th edition with an extended programme of galleries, individual projects, artists, meetings, talks and tours.
For the fifteenth time this year, the young artists from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia took part in the Young Painter’s Prize (YPP) competition. Just like in the previous year, YPP has remained open to the submissions by the young Ukrainian artists currently residing in the Baltic States. Besides giving the…
One of the largest contemporary art events in Estonia, Tallinn Photomonth takes place from 6 October to 26 November. The main programme of the biennial consists of the international main exhibition Trance held at the Tallinn Art Hall’s Lasnamäe Pavilion, as well as an artists’ film programme in cinema Sõprus,…
