The 15th edition of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art’s (LCCA) festival Survival Kit, one of its key endeavours and a major annual art event in the Baltics, announces its participating artists. Titled “Measures,” this year’s festival is curated by Jussi Koitela and takes place from 6 September to 6…
The exhibition takes its title from a poem of the same name, written by the Greek poet Emerson in New York City in 1984. The poem is part of Songs Without Music, a typewritten, and previously unpublished manuscript of poems and lyrics found in the archives of Greek photographer George…
66 contemporary art galleries, 15 art institutions, and more than 300 artists from 14 countries have been invited to participate in the contemporary art fair ArtVilnius’24. The 15th-anniversary edition will take place between 4 and 6 October at the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre Litexpo in Vilnius. The focus of…
From July 31 to August 3, the FNAF Diverse Universe performance festival, In Graafika, Fideofest and the sculpture festival "Form" will take place in Pärnu's creative campus, central library, Tartu University College and urban space. During the festival week, various presentations take place and it culminates with the big festival…
In the selection of the audience favourite for the Spring Exhibition, 834 votes were cast this time. Art supporters Riivo Anton, Aivar Berzin, Jaan Manitski, Tiit Pruuli and Rain Tamm sponsored a prize of 6,000 euros for the winner of the audience vote, which was awarded at the prize ceremony.
Group exhibition with the title “Look into my Ice” is open in the three galleries of the Tartu Art House as part of the main programme of the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024. The curator of the exhibition is Liisi Kõuhkna. The purpose of the exhibition is to enhance…
Maik Kalberg is a painter and filmmaker from Tartu. He graduated from Tartu Art Gymnasium and received higher education from the Baltic Film and Media School. As an artist, Maik aims to create positive energy in the world through his existence and his work. Currently, Maik has an exhibition at…
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…
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…
The review of Riga Photography Biennial – NEXT 2023 Diāna Tamane’s solo exhibition ‘Half-Love’ at the Latvian Museum of Photography
Maria Lind has been appointed the new director of Konstmuseet i Norr in Kiruna. She is currently the Counsellor of Cultural Affairs at the Embassy of Sweden in Moscow.
Marti Manen - the director of one of the most essential institutions in Swedish contemporary art, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation - is looking back on the changes in society through the art world on its 25th anniversary. In Index words: “25 years of doing”. In the interview…
Just before the festive season slows down the everyday hurry, jury members of the international Nordic & Baltic Young Artist Award competition got together in snowy Vilnius to deliberate who are the best emerging talents in the region. Besides the difficult jury duty, jury members also took the time to…
Baltic Art Festival “VOLUME UP" in Manhattan, NEW YORK September 9-25, 2022. The aim of the festival is to introduce Baltic Art - Performance, film, and visual arts in Big Apple, Manhattan New York.