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"Foreign galleries flock to third edition of annual contemporary art Baltic fair"
Art Riga Fair 2016
21–27 November 2016
Catalogue
Browse the full printed catalogue for this edition. · 60 pages
Marking its first small anniversary, three years after its 2014 founding, the 3rd edition of ART RIGA FAIR returns to the Latvian Railway History Museum with a memorial exhibition for painter Tadeusz Lapinski, a contemporary of Mark Rothko born in Daugavpils. Russian-language press reported that the day after the opening was dubbed "Lapinski Day", though no official Latvian proclamation has been confirmed. Among the exhibitors is Dali Universe (IAR Art Resources Ltd, Switzerland), bringing authenticated works by Salvador Dalí to the fair.
Writing that year in arterritory.com, art critic Simon Hewitt described the fair as "small and eccentric" but noted that it would, "pioneered with such zeal by Dags Vidulejs and Gaļina Maksimova, defy the odds to run for a third consecutive year this November."
Gallery
Photographs from the fair.
In November 2016 the Latvian Railway History Museum hosted Art Riga Fair for a third year running, a "first small anniversary" for a project barely three years old.
At a glance, 2016
- Edition
- 3rd
- Dates
- 21–27 November 2016, VIP and media day 21 November
- Venue
- Latvian Railway History Museum, Uzvaras bulvāris 2A
- Organisers
- Happy Art Museum
- Creative director
- Dags Vidulejs
- Executive director
- Gaļina Maksimova
- Project managers
- Vladimirs Rešetovs, Anita Šiklova
- Press secretary
- Krišs Ēlerts
Genius Loci Europa
The fair's talks programme ran that year under the banner "Genius Loci Europa", providing an expanded programme of talks and events, playing host to international art professionals, institutions, galleries, publishers, media, collectors and art-lovers. Its centrepiece discussion, staged at the Euroclub venue on 22 November, brought architecture theorist Alexander Rappaport together with Dmitry Shagin, founder of St Petersburg's "Mitki" art group, Shalva Khakhanashvili of Paris' Karavan Gallery and Dmitry Goryachkin of Moscow's Everything Is Art Gallery, to discuss art in the urban environment (see the Program tab for the full Euroclub talks series).
A memorial for Tadeusz Lapinski
The 2016 edition also carried a memorial exhibition for painter Tadeusz Lapinski (1928–2016), a contemporary of Mark Rothko. Press coverage of the opening reported that 22 November was informally dubbed "Lapinski Day".
Participants
Karavan Gallery (France): Shalva Khakhanashvili, Karim Borjas, Annette Turrillo, Jacques Crenn; Olivier de Rycke (France); Everything Is Art Gallery: Liza Plavinskaya, Yevgeny Kalachev, Denis Mikhailov, Lidia Vitkovskaya; Gallery Fine Art; Gallery Kultproekt; Art Ego Gallery (Ukraine): Lika Spivakovska; DK Gallery (Belarus); Modern Masters Gallery and Sergey Dubroff (Switzerland); Bora Arte (Italy); Genia Chef, Ira Kitzki Gallery, Frida Fine Arts Gallery (Germany); Van Golik Gallery (Poland); Baratashvili Gallery (Georgia); the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan; Assol Sas (Kazakhstan); Reuven Shezen (Israel); and Bali Art (Indonesia), Happy Art Museum, Oforta Ģilde, Tifana Gallery, Pinakoteka exhibition hall, Art Embassy, Art V International, Gallery Burtveidols, Gallery Tornis (Sigulda), Agni project, Normunds Braslinš, Neputns publishing house, Egons Persevičs, Yegor Buimister, Alesja Melentjeva, Vadim Eglītis' mosaic art studio and others.
Video
- Dates
- 21–27 November 2016
More about this edition
- "Eastern Eden?" by Simon Hewitt, arterritory.com (2016)
- Video: Motus Vita "Birth of a Picture"
- "International art fair to open at Railway Museum", Diena/LETA (2016)
- "Riga Art Fair opens, the year's biggest art event", Novaya Gazeta Baltia (2016)
- "Dmitry Shagin, the 'Mitek' with many fond ties to Latvia", LSM.lv Russian (2016)
- «Opening of Art Riga Fair 2016 & preview at Rietumu Bank», LinkedIn
- «Килобайт культуры: в Риге проходит Riga Art Fair», rus.lsm.lv
- Art Fairs Service: partner for the Riga Art Fair 2016