The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA), in collaboration with the Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMA), will present the solo exhibition Other Passengers by artist Viktor Timofeev, running from March 22, 2025, to June 15, 2025. The most extensive exhibition to date by the New York-based Latvian artist will be displayed in the fourth-floor halls of LNMA, exploring themes of otherness, fragmented identities, readability and incomprehensibility. The exhibition is curated by Andra Silapētere (LCCA).
Other Passengers will bring together key motifs of Viktor Timofeev’s artistic practice, forming a unified multimedia installation that includes newly created paintings, drawings, video works, and a specially composed soundscape, created in collaboration with artist Miša Skalskis (FI/LT). The exhibition’s elements will intertwine autobiographical references with broader societal processes, forming a socio-critical metaphor in a scenographically structured environment. As visitors gradually move through the three exhibition spaces, a dramaturgy unfolds—revealing the coexistence and clash of two parallel realities—prompting an exploration of the boundaries between fact and fiction, objectivity and subjectivity.
Deeply connected to Timofeev’s ongoing creative explorations, which include video games, worldmaking, and an interest in irrational systems, the exhibition works will extend long-developed concepts while seeking new modes of expression. One of Timofeev’s key pieces, Alphabet Clock, which systematically and infinitely mutates letter forms, will be reinterpreted within the exhibition, addressing issues of alienation, power, and societal norms.
Working between Riga and New York, Timofeev has long examined identity, language, and modes of communication, investigating their multilayered, shifting nature and the possibilities of integration or resistance within dominant systems. His work often explores governance structures and communication mechanisms, using different media to unfold ideas of the absurd. These serve as both a reaction to the turbulent, uncontrollable processes of contemporary reality and as an opportunity to construct an environment that subverts the norms of daily life with absurdity and play.
Viktor Timofeev holds a Master’s degree from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and a Bachelor’s degree from Hunter College in New York. He currently teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the United States. His recent solo exhibitions include: Pedagogical Games 1. Intermediaries and Constraints, Gallery 427, Riga (2023); DOG, Interstate Projects, New York (2021); God Objects, Futura/Karlin Studios, Prague (2020); Stairway to Melon, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2017); and S.T.A.T.E., Drawing Room, London (2016). Recent group exhibitions include: New Address: Eden, kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga (2024); Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn Art Hall (curated by Ilari Laamanen) (2024); Shallow Springs, Kohta Kunsthalle, Helsinki (2023); 14th Baltic Triennial, CAC, Vilnius (2021); Unscheduled Encounters, LNMA, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall (2019); A Barbarian in Paris, Fondation Ricard, Paris (2018); and Somewhere In Between, Bozar, Brussels (2018).
The exhibition is organized by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Latvian National Museum of Art. It is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation, Education, Culture, and Sports Department of Riga City Council (RD IKSD), paint manufacturer Vivacolor, and LG Electronics Latvia.
