My mother was a fish/ Re plant, 2019

"My mother was a fish/ Re plant", 2019. Charcoal drawing on wall,
6 m x 4,5 m.

Installation views from the exhibition "Unexpected Encounter", 

held at Arsenāls Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art.

Photo: Margarita Ogolceva, LCCA, 2019.

 Documentation from experimental making of biochar/ drawing charcoal, 2019.

  Photo: Ylva Westerlund

Unexpected Encounters - an exhibition dedicated to science fiction 


Arsenāls Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art 


13.12.19 - 23.02.20

curated by Inga Lāce, Andra Silapētere and Solvita Krese, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art

From December 13 to February 23 2020, the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art will present the exhibition “Unexpected Encounters” at the “Arsenāls” Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art. “Unexpected Encounters” is a research and exhibition project that explores the relationships between science fiction, art and processes in society, combining historical research and works by contemporary artists.

“Unexpected Encounters” addresses the impact of science fiction on the Latvian cultural space in the second half of the 20th century, and includes works by contemporary artists which highlight current issues of feminism, ecology and politics by envisioning alternative futures. The project's title is derived from a collection of stories by the Soviet science fiction writers the Strugatsky brothers, collated and published in Riga in 1987.


On December 14, from 13:00 to 18:00, there will be a symposium dedicated to the exhibition, where curators Inga Lāce, Andra Silapētere and Solvita Krese will conduct talks with artists Ylva Westerlund, Kristaps Epners, Ieva Balode, Anton Vidokle, Driant Zeneli, Ann Lislegaard, Bahar Noorizadeh and Viktor Timofeev. All events will take place at the LNMM Exhibition Hall "Arsenals”.



The participating artists of the "Unexpected Encounters” exhibition are: Māris Ārgalis, Ieva Balode, Auseklis Baušķenieks, Maija Dragūne, Aleksandrs Dembo, Kristaps Epners, Dzidra Ezergaile, Pēteris Džigurs, Nash Glynn, Alberts Goltjakovs, Inārs Helmūts, Ann Lislegaard, Zenta Logina, Malda Muižule, Deimantas Narkevičius, Bahar Noorizadeh, Artūrs Ņikitins, Pakui Hardware, Ivars Poikāns, Māra Rikmane, Artūrs Riņķis, Vladislav Shapovalov, Genādijs Suhanovs, Kirils Šmeļkovs, Viktor Timofeev, Anton Vidokle, Artūrs Virtmanis, Sif Itona Westerberg, Ylva Westerlund, Driant Zeneli, Zheng Bo.

https://www.lsm.lv/…/izstade-nenorunatas-tiksanas-sarunas…/…

The talk part of exhibition "Unexpected Encouters" at "Arsenāls" exhibition hall of the National Art Museum of Latvia was moderated by the curators of the exhibition Solvita Krese, Inga Lāce and Andra Silapētere. Participants of the program - artists Ieva Balode, Ylva Westerlund, Ann Lislegaard, Anton Vidokle, Bahar Noorizadeh, Driant Zeneli, Kristaps Epners and Viktor Timofeev, Kaspars Groševs ("Zolitūde") with musical performance.

Pictures below from the workshop "Create your own sci-fi charachter" with Ylva Westerlund, arranged by LCCA.