This September have pitched the consistency of cultural events in Riga. As every year, the culture forum White Nights offers a diverse and intensive program, which actually cannot be seen in a one night. However, assuming that each of us has our…

Mindaugas Gapševičius: On official knowledge of contemporary art and trauma

Abandoned Mystery is an interdisciplinary project on exploring the constitution of the phenomena of abandoned military sites in the Baltic Sea area. In cooperation with partners the team is organizing field-trips towards abandoned places in Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Finland. http://abandonedmystery.info “What…

Rebirth of the obsolete. “Memory Loss” by Uku Pira

When visiting the graduation show of Tartu Art College, one of the works stood out from the others. It was Uku Pira’s (1985) audio-video installation „Memory Loss“, which was about nostalgic recycling of obsolete technology. Installed in a dark room…

Road trip to Manifesta 9 and Documenta 13: 1st part

Like every trip, this road trip started with high hopes, rolling expectations about big world-famous exhibitions, adventures on every corner, good road music and stops on the way to have coffee, to fill in and out. A curators-artists’ team from…

“From Nothing” – the exhibition by Tomás Lahoda

The show consists of silkscreen prints which show arrangements of books. The titles of the books form quotes about language and related topics. The conceptual meaning is displayed through pop art silkscreen prints. One of the prints for example…

Where are the 90s?

Before attending the exhibition “90s” – a project by Virginija Januškevičiūtė with The Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt – I prepared like going to some unknown place on other the side of the continent. Cleared my mind of some expectations,…

The Taxidermy Of Memory. Indrė Šerpytytė‘s Exhibition „1944–1991“ At The Vilnius Photography Gallery

What unites all of the works presented at the photography exhibition by Indrė Šerpytytė, a Lithuanian artist living in London? It is a strange feeling to see that everything in the pictures has only a surface, skin, or a shape…

Estonian month: Art ist kuku nu ut – a festival of contemporary art in Tartu

A nine-hour trip with a transfer in Riga is a condition to get to one of the two Estonian towns starting with “T”. Experiences in Tartu and Tallinn were three weeks apart, while a week prior to the events recounted…