The exhibition is a continuation of the artists' research into the use of free energy in art and invites visitors to experience the landscape of the Gauja riverside in a kinetic installation, illuminating natural energy as a creative material.
08.05.– 21.06.2025
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2
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2025
RIXC, Latvia
The Unter Pflanzen exhibition, curated by Kathrin Meyer and Yvonne Volkart, features artworks by Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch, Rasa Smite, and Raitis Smits, created as part of the Plants_Intelligence research project funded by SNSF, as well as other works by artists who work with plants.
16.03–17.08.2025.
Museum Sinclair-Haus in Bad Homburg / Frankfurt, Germany
This year’s RIXC Festival will delve into the “plant intelligence" theme, exploring ideas such as “learning like a plant” amidst the ongoing climate crises and the still scarcely unfolded relations between natural and artificial intelligence. Curated by Raitis Smits and Yvonne Volkart, the exhibition is a collaboration with the SNSF-funded project “Plants_Intelligence” (2022–2025), while the workshops and performances are co-organized with "Resonances of Nature" project by Goethe-Institut Riga and French Institute in Latvia.
16.10. – 23.11.2025
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre / RIXC Gallery / Art Academy of Latvia
The first edition of Baltic Award honors the most outstanding personalities of the Baltic States in music, art, science and architecture.
13.05.2025
LNMM, Riga, Latvia
During Riga Art Week (RAW), as part of Gallery Late on May 29, RIXC Gallery will remain open until 22:00 and invites you to an artist talk with Artūrs Punte and Jēkabs Voļatovskis.
29.05.2025. / Talk 18.00 / Exhibition Open 12.00-22.00
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2
As part of this project, artists from three countries will create new artworks to be presented at this year’s RIXC Art Science Festival: Adnan Softić (Germany), Marylou Sharrock (France), and Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits (Latvia).
18.10.2025
Riga, Latvia
First selected residency artists:
Yuchin Chen (Taiwan), Krista Dintere (Latvia), Anna Manankina (Ukraine/Germany), Isabella Münnich (Germany), Oleksandr Sirous (Ukraine), Adnan Softić (Germany) and Ivo Tauriņš (Latvia).
05/05/2025
The artists use artificial intelligence (machine learning) algorithms to visualise the evolutionary processes of flowering plants in order to show how they are affected by rapid climate change.
16.03–17.08.2025.
Museum Sinclair-Haus in Bad Homburg, Germany.
Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits have been focusing on the artistic study of plants since 2022. Their artwork 'Solarceptors' is part of the "Plants Intelligence" artistic research project.
16.03–17.08.2025.
Museum Sinclair-Haus in Bad Homburg, Germany.
On April 26, the RIXC gallery will host the closing event of Sabine Šnē solo exhibition "Tidal Tear Sediment", in collaboration with the artists collective PR0 Bi$TR0!
26.04.2025. / 12:00–18:00
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2
RIXC residency website: https://air.rixc.org/
The call for the Latvian artists (1 artist, August, 2025) and Baltic/Latvian artists (1 artist, November-December, 2025) is closed.
17/04/2025
From 22 to 26 April 2025, Liepāja will host the 12th International Sound Days Festival - an interdisciplinary event combining music, visual and sound art in creative workshops, an exhibition, performances and electronic music concerts.
22.04. – 26.04.2025
Liepaja, Latvia
In Tidal Tear Sediment, Sabīne Šnē explores human and water fluid connections by weaving together stories of the Baltic Sea with ideas from hydrofeminism, which higlihts that water is in all of our bodies and through that we are connected with each other and with the planet.
6.03.–26.04.2025
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2
Doctoral students Maija Demitere, Aigars Ceplītis and Elīna Veira defended their doctoral theses.
26.–27.03.2025.
This dynamic city-wide event aims to foster collaboration among art institutions, galleries, and creatives, highlighting Riga’s role as a new cultural hub.
26.05. – 01.06.2025
Riga, Latvia
This residency program is designed for artists working with immersive technologies (XR/VR/AR/AI), data visualization, sonification, machine learning, and related fields.
March, 2025
Riga, Latvia
On the final day of the SEE YOU exhibition, February 22, from 12:00 to 18:00 at the RIXC Gallery, visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artist and gain insight into the concept and creation process of the exhibition.
22.02.27. 12:00 – 18:00
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2, Riga, Latvia
In Forest Finance - Carbon, Biodiversity, and Beyond conference Rasa Smite will present her Atmospheric Forest (with Raitis Smits) immersive artwork in Swiss Italian University, Lugano, Switzerland. Keynote by scientist Vincent Gauci at 16:30 online https://www.usi.ch/it/feeds/30517
16.12.2024. at 17.50
Lugano, Switzerland
In the exhibition, the viewers will observe the artworks, while the artworks will observe the viewers, reacting to the data generated by the visitors and stored in a database.
18.12.2024.–22.02.2025. // Opening: 18.12. at 18:00
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2
08.05.–21.06.2025
ARTŪRS PUNTE
JĒKABS VOĻATOVSKIS
Gauja Manuport No.2
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2
Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00
Riga, Latvia
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16.03.–17.08.2025
Rasa Smite un Raitis Smits
Solarceptors
Sinclair-Haus Museum of Art and Nature
Frankfurt (Bad Homburg), Germany
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