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Art Riga Fair 2021
3–16 October 2021
After a year's pause forced by the pandemic, ART RIGA FAIR returned for its 7th edition, running 3 to 16 October 2021 at a new central venue, the "Vernisāža" entertainment and events centre on Tērbatas iela, in place of the Latvian Railway History Museum used in surrounding years.
More than 40 artists and gallerists took part, including exhibitors from Germany, France, Switzerland, Russia, Estonia, Montenegro and Iceland alongside a wide representation of Latvian painters and sculptors. Midway through the run, Latvia entered a new, three month COVID-19 state of emergency; organizer Gaļina Maksimova confirmed the fair would continue on schedule to 16 October, observing the restrictions.
Art Riga Fair returned in October 2021 after skipping 2020 entirely, the only year in the fair's run to be cancelled outright by the pandemic. Its 7th edition swapped the familiar Latvian Railway History Museum for a new central address, the "Vernisāža" entertainment and events centre on Tērbatas iela, and ran for two weeks even as Latvia entered a fresh state of emergency partway through.
At a glance
- Edition
- 7th
- Dates
- 3–16 October 2021
- Venue
- "Vernisāža" entertainment and events centre, Tērbatas iela 2, Rīga
- Organizers
- Happy Art Museum · curator Gaļina Maksimova
Galleries and artists, by country
ART RIGA FAIR 2021 participants: Dags Vidulejs, Juris and Artūrs Dimiters, Gustavs Filipsons, Zigmunds Bielis, Aleksandrs Makarenko, Jolanta Vadopalasa, Nelle Zirnīte, Ilze Preisa, Egons Perševics, Valters Liepiņš, Una Gura, Linda Kozule, Inta Berga, Mareks Gureckis, Aleksandrs Ņeberkutins, Elīna Sanda Zaķe and Jūlija Briede. Lia Shvelidze, Mamuka, Luka Tsetskhladze (Georgia); Zura Arabidze (Georgia), the architecture theorist and painter Aleksandrs Rappaports; Ivans Koršunovs, Denis Mihailovs, Lidija Vitkovska, Dima Gorjačkins, Daša Delone, Anastasija Kuznecova-Ruf, Polina Poberežska, Viktorija Kosenko, Nikolajs Krivošeins, Aleksandrs Oskins, Eduards Zentčiks, Ruvens Šezens, Irina Pomjanska, Sergejs Marinaki and others.
Galleries and collections: Happy Art Museum (with works by Gustavs Klucis and Anatoly Zverev), the Paris-based Karavan Gallery (Shalva Khakhanashvili, Karim Borjas, Belka Lassaire, Jacques Crenn), Vadim Vernik's Mosaic Art Studio, the Pavel Krutikov collection and the "Church of Practical Hedonism" with its icon collection.
Program: masterclasses, a perfume lecture, a concert
Alongside the stands, the fair ran weeks of side programming: artist meetings and discussions, creative masterclasses and performances by young artists: a masterclass by artist Aleksandrs Neberekutins, a lecture by Tamara Gezerdava on the perfumer Jacques Cavallier, and a concert by the band "Cement" (Цемент). See the Program tab for the full list.
"Art Riga fortified itself with Cement, and keeps working through the state of emergency." rus.lsm.lv headline, translated from Russian (2021)
Video
- Dates
- 3–16 October 2021
- Location
- Vernisāža, Tērbatas iela 2, Rīga
More about this edition
- "Mākslas gadatirgus 'Art Riga Fair 2021'", LTV/LSM.lv (2021)
- "Art Riga укрепилась Цементом и продолжает работать в чрезвычайной ситуации", rus.lsm.lv (2021)
- Video: "Mākslas gadatirgus Art Riga Fair 2021", LTV (2021)
- Latvian Artists' Union: tribute to organizer Dags Vidulejs, mentions the 2021 edition
- «До 16 октября в Риге проходит Art Riga Fair», mixnews.lv
- Art Riga Fair 2021, Riga This Week