On 16th April Riga Art Space (3 Kungu Street, Riga) will host an international symposium „The Rise and Fall of Art Biennials”. The symposium supplements the international exhibition “Re: visited” which is one of the events of the official Riga 2014 European Capital of Culture programme and is currently on view at the Riga Art Space (until 27 April). The exhibition, organised by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA), questions the current role of art biennials. The symposium offers the opportunity to acquaint oneself with the experience of various art biennials, their visions, influences, specifics of organization, gains and losses. The symposium participants will gain an impression of the dynamics of the development, tendencies and prognoses of this popular type of art event. The discussion will involve an examination of the opportunities presented by biennials, an analysis of their shortcomings and a consideration of possible solutions.
Symposium speakers: Ekaterina Degot, co-curator of the Bergen Assembly and 1st Ural Industrial Biennial (Russia), Power Ekroth, co-curator of the 7th Momentum Biennial and the Turku Biennial 2013 (Sweden / Norway), Jonatan Habib Engqvist, curator of the exhibition „(I)ndependent People” in the framework of the Reykjavik Arts Festival 2012 (Sweden), Marieke van Hal, Director of the Biennial Foundation (the Netherlands), Virginija Januškevičiūtė, curator of the Baltic Triennial of International Art (Lithuania), Aigars Bikše, artist, curator of the Sculpture Quadrennial (Latvia), Ann Lislegaard, artist (Norway).
Moderators: Solvita Krese, director of the LCCA, and Inga Lāce, project director of the LCCA.
