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"Foreign galleries gather to the fourth edition of annual international Baltic region contemporary art show"
Art Riga Fair 2017
7–13 November 2017
Catalogue
Browse the full printed catalogue for this edition. · 80 pages
The 4th edition of ART RIGA FAIR gathers galleries and artists from France, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Mexico, Indonesia, Germany, Italy, Georgia and Latvia at the Latvian Railway History Museum, with over 1,000 artworks on show. The fair was originally announced for 20 to 25 November before moving to its final dates, 7 to 13 November. Dali Universe (IAR Art Resources Ltd, Switzerland) returns for a second year, again bringing authenticated works by Salvador Dalí.
Gallery
Photographs from the fair.
At a glance
- Edition
- 4th
- Dates
- 7–13 November 2017
- VIP / Media Opening Day
- 8 November
- Venue
- Latvian Railway History Museum, Uzvaras bulvāris 2A
- Countries
- France, Switzerland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Italy, Georgia, Iceland
- Organisers
- Dags Vidulejs (Happy Art Museum Ltd.) & Gaļina Maksimova (Euroclub Ltd.)
Participants
Karavan Gallery (France): Šalva Khakhanašvili, Karim Borjas, Zura Arabidze, Benedikts Gerins, Oleg Kulik, Belka Lassaire, Didier Masset, Annette Turrillo, Marina Chernikova, Jacques Crenn, Katja Kameneva; Olivier de Rycke (France); Tifana Gallery: Elīna Titāne, Ilze Kuišele; Sergey Dubroff (Switzerland); Cocow (Germany); Assol Sas (Kazakhstan), Kamiļa Kurmambekova, Anna Kurmanbekova (Kazakhstan); Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan; Everything Is Art Gallery: Lidija Vitkovskaja, Deniss Mihailovs, Jevgēnijs Kalačevs, Jelizaveta Plavinska; Mitki (Dmitrijs Šagins), Gallery Kultproekt, Gallery Fine Art (Russia), Viktors Krotovs, SPBART.com (St Petersburg), Krokin Gallery (Russia): Ilona Gonsovska; Oforta Ģilde: Gunārs Krollis, Nele Zirnīte, Alekss Ets, Egor Rostovs; Artdoll, Karlsons (Iceland), DK Gallery (Belarus), Van Golik Gallery (Poland), Bora Arte (Italy); Happy Art Museum: Aleksandrs Rappaports, Dags Vidulejs, Juris Dimiters, Zigmunds Bielis, Aigars Tavkins, Vadims Kovalevs, Aleksandrs Makarenko, Ivans Koršunovs, Anna Kolosova (Great Britain); Euroclub: Jeļena Aļoškina, Reuven Schezen (Israel), Art Ego Gallery (Ukraine); Art Embassy: Ludolfs Liberts, Kārlis Hūns, Auseklis Baušķenieks, Heikki Ylonen; Antonia Gallery: Jānis Zemītis, Valērijs Bašeņins, Aleksandrs Rodins, Kristīne Kvitka, Dace Lielā; Jēkabs Gallery: Inta Celmiņa, Valdis Bušs; Art Gallery 19: Alvis Pīzelis, Inga Pērkons, Aleksandrs Ņeberekutins, Goča Huskivadze, Valērijs Makovojs, Leo Preiss; Rita Pranca Art; Inner Light (Jūrmala): Vitālijs Jermolajevs; the Mosaic Art Studio of Vadims Eglītis, the Art Studio of Jurijs Fatejevs; Eduards Pustovoitovs, SeBo, Serge Sunne; the private collection of Pavels Krutikovs: Dmitrijs Kondratjevs, Aleksandrs Silins; Gallery Tornis, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, the Risinājums Design Gallery: Evija Slikšāne, Arvils Linde; Art V International.
Programme: Genius Loci Europe
The fair described its own social mission as being "to provoke viewers on art conversation," building the week around a conference cycle it billed as Genius Loci Europe. Its own participation notes put the ambition plainly: "International art fair 'ART RIGA' is intended as an annual long-term project involving art professionals from all over the world: the best art galleries, art critics, specialized cultural magazine publishers." The 2017 line-up, drawn from the fair's program and catalogue, included:
- 8 November, VIP Private Banking and Media Opening Day, with a performance by Anna Kolosova.
- 9 November, the conference "ArtTravel. Wonders of the World."
- A discussion billed as "Documento Futurae" (also listed on the fair's own site as "Future Documents," with Andris Teikmanis attached), tied to the Art Academy of Latvia's Centenary Art Future project.
- 11 November, a roundtable on "Art in the Urban Environment," with architecture theorist Aleksandrs Rapaports and journalist Igors Vatoliņš.
- A "Slow-Mover" side programme, pairing an Indi Piano Fest, under the stated patronage of Dmitry Shostakovich Jr., with a video-art strand called "Familia": Lucas Gervilla (Brazil), Dima Goryachkin (Russia) and Dasha Delone, shown alongside experimental films by Dmitry Plavinsky, Jannis Kounellis and others.
Parallel exhibition at Rietumu
Running from 1 to 25 November 2017, a parallel exhibition at the Rietumu Capital Centre gathered a selection of ART RIGA participants' work. It carried artists from Paris' Karavan Gallery, Šalva Khakhanašvili, Karim Borjas, Belka Lassaire and Jacques Crenn, alongside Moscow's Everything Is Art Gallery, Lidija Vitkovska, Deniss Mihailovs, Dima Gorjačkins and Daša Delone, as well as Happy Art Museum's own artists.
- Dates
- 7–13 November 2017