16th season at Culture and Arts Project „NOASS”

Culture and Arts Project “NOASS” is delighted to announce the opening of the 16^th season at the floating AB Dam galleries in Riga! This year, the project’s curatorial team continues to introduce some of the most prominent local and international cultural trends to its visitors, featuring exhibitions of abstract expressionist and naïve art, video art and installations, as well as offering a range of exciting satellite events, creative workshops, film screenings and artist residences.

The 16^th season at Culture and Arts Project “NOASS” starts on Saturday, May 17 and coincides with the “Night of Museums” – a night, when museums remain open after midnight. Everyone is warmly welcomed to join us for the opening ceremony, followed by a reception of Kaspars Teodors Brambergs – one of the most prominent and multi-award winning contemporary artists from Latvia, whose solo exhibition “Dynamis” will be on show at the floating art gallery “NOASS” until June 4. Avoiding to speak of all things tangible and mundane, Brambergs relies on invisible energies, pervading his creative work and invites everyone to confront each painting as it is.

“Fest Naïve Riga” exhibition – on show at Culture and Arts Project “NOASS” premises from June 9to 20 – celebrating creative and sometimes infantile spirit of the 21^st century naïve artists from Russia and the Baltic States will certainly become another highlight of the 16^th season. The Latvian Museum of Naïve art will also open its doors on May 17 making its permanent collection accessible to the public until October 3.

Contemporary and Video Art Festival “Waterpieces” will culminate the season with an exciting line-up of local and international moving image artists and professionals. With urban cityscapes as this year’s leitmotif, the festival “Waterpieces” focuses on interactivity of art, urban space and architecture, as well as the newest technologies widely used amongst contemporary moving image artists. To bring you the best video art from around the world, this year we have teamed up with such experimental and digital art festivals as “Punto y Raya” (Spain) – the world’s most abstract video art festival, “Pause Fest” – one of the key digital and media art platforms in Australia and Ars Electronica festival (Austria) – a forerunner of technologically charged art to name but a few.

“The Baltic Sea – floating trunks” project curated by Swedish artist group SIMKA will be another not-to-miss event this summer. On August 7 the floating art installation – choreography of water and wind – will be installed on water, next to the AB Dam galleries. “The Baltic Sea – floating trunks” will have a shape of trees colony wrapped in layers of textiles, planted in large life-buoys and swaying in the streams of the river Daugava. Produced in collaboration with Culture and Arts Project “NOASS” and Pori Art Museum in Finland, the project symbolises a unity of the three cities – Umeå in Sweden, Pori in Finland and Riga in Latvia – which geographically frame and represent the Baltic sea and offer creative waterside space. Additionally, Riga and Umeå are European Culture cities 2014, whereas Riga and Pori celebrate a 50 years anniversary of being Twin towns / Sister cities. SIMKA is artists group from Sweden formed by Simon Häggblom and Karin Lind. Both artists have an extensive experience in visual art, design and landscape architecture.

The 16^th season at Culture and Arts Project “NOASS” terminates on October 19together with the exhibition “In Spite of Everything” on show from May 1 in the old KGB building on Brivibas street 61. The exhibition curated as part of the European Capital of Culture – Riga 2014 the “Corner House” project is about creative personalities, who endured occupation, exile and inhumane regime, never ceasing to create and continuing to exist as reasonable beings. The majority of the works are exhibited for the first time and these are predominantly small scale drawings and sketches depicting the era as precisely as possible.

For more information on the key events at Culture and Arts Project “NOASS” as well as many satellite activities please visit our home page or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Culture and Arts Project “NOASS”

Opening hours:

Tuesday – Sunday: 11:00 – 19:00

Monday – closed

Alongside the exhibition space will be working an open-air bar and terrace.

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