The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA), in collaboration with the Kai Art Centre and the Mo Museum, invites you to the event ‘Portable Landscapes. Reflections on Migration from the Baltic Region’ on October 25 18.00 at the Pickle Bar, Berlin. The event will bring together artists from the Baltic countries to address contemporary issues of migration, identity and language through conversations, performative gestures, and screenings.
The event’s program is based on the LCCA project Portable Landscapes, which has explored the Latvian exile and diaspora in Paris, Gotland, Berlin, Montreal and New York through research and exhibitions. The project’s culmination is an upcoming publication – a book Portable Landscapes. Latvian Exile Art histories published by Berlin based publisher K. Verlag.
By inviting artists and institutions from Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, the iteration of the event at the Pickle Bar extends the research and representation to a Baltic dimension.
The event on October 25 will bring together artists Viktor Timofeev, Maria Kapajeva, Agnė Juodvalkytė and Artūrs Punte (text group Orbita). Their work uses a variety of media, including drawing, installation, photography and video and reflects on social processes in the context of belonging. It includes cultural references, emotional connotations and dislocations. At the Pickle Bar, they will discuss migration and its connection to the history of the region and its impact on contemporary processes. Participating artists will also raise questions of language, both as part of the experience of moving between countries and as an imprint of Russian colonialism on the Baltic social and political landscape.
Maria Kapajeva. Listen to My Screem, 2024
The hosts of the event – Pickle Bar – is a non-profit project space, that focuses on research, performances and discussions, launched in 2020 by artist collective Slavs and Tatars with Anastasia Marukhina and Patricia Couvet to extend the collective’s Eurasian platform (Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia) to a greater public.
The project is curated by Andra Silapētere and Inga Lāce and realized by the LCCA in cooperation with Kai Art Center in Tallin and Mo Museum in Vilnius. “Portable Landscapes. Reflections on migration form the Baltic region” is sponsored by Baltic Culture Fund.
