RIXC Festival Exhibition: PLANTS INTELLIGENCE at the Riga Last Thursdays program!

Visit the exhibition at the Riga Last Thursday program on October 30, 2025 from 18:00 until 21:00! The exhibition is developed in cooperation with the research project Plants_Intelligence (2022–2025) and features its outcomes. The exhibition also includes other works in which artists explore the intelligence of plants through scientific, artistic, indigenous, anthropological, imaginative, and speculative perspectives.

16.10. – 23.11.2025. // Riga Last Thursday: Thursday, 30.10., from 18:00-22:00

Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, SPORTA 2 quartier

Down Deep. Living Seas, Living Bodies Exhibition in Poland

RIXC's partner, the State Art Gallery Gallery in Sopot, Poland, is organizing a large-scale exhibition "Deep Down" featuring artwork by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits.

30.10.2025.-04.04.2026. // Public opening: 30.10. at 18:00

State Art Gallery, Sopot, Poland

Plants Intelligence Project Artworks at the “What if...?” exhibition in Bern

The exhibition explores the intricate relationships between nature, technology, and society, presenting works that reflect on how these spheres intertwine and evolve. It is co-curated in collaboration with the Plants_Intelligence research project (SNSF 2022–2025) and features the final artworks created by the project team.

27.11.2025.–01.02.2026. // Opening: 27.11.2025.

Kornhausforum, Bern, Switzerland

FESTIVAL KEYNOTES: Noelia Billi (AR), Jana Kukaine (LV) and Yvonne Volkart (CH)

This year’s public keynotes will be delivered by Argentinian philosopher and researcher Noelia Billi, Latvian eco-feminist and art theorist Jana Kukaine, and Swiss art and media theorist Yvonne Volkart — principal investigator of the Plants_Intelligence research project. Entry is free – register HERE!

Thursday, 16.10.2025, 15:30 // Friday, 17.10.2025, 15:00

Art Academy of Latvia, Kalpaka bulvāris 13, k-2 // Online

WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCES: Klimaton by Adnan Softić

German artist Adnan Softić contributes performance in collaboration with Latvian and German artists and workshop using his Klimaton Arctic, a musical instrument that transforms scientific data from the MOSAiC Arctic expedition into sound, making the climate crisis tangible through immersive listening.
Free registration: for performance HERE and workshop HERE!

Performance: 17.10.2025, 18:00 // Workshop: 18.10.2025, 15:00

Art Academy of Latvia, Kalpaka bulvāris 13, k-2

The Transition Ecologies Exhibition by Maija Demitere at the RIXC Gallery

The exhibition reflects on the shifting relationship between humans and nature, as old balances collapse and the need for new ecological connections emerges. 

04.09.–25.10.2025

RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2

INSERT#7 Issue Opening: Plant Intelligence Featuring AI Herbarium by Rasa Smite

In INSERT#7, read about the work of artists and researchers of  the Plants_Intelligence project “towards a vegetal aesthetics”, including Rasa Smite’s “AI Herbarium. Flowering Plants as Inventors of Their Own Existence”.

Thursday, 28.08.2025., at 18.00-21.00

Old Botanical Garden, Palm House, entrance at the corner of Talstrasse/Badweg, 8001, Zurich, Switzerland

Ivo Tauriņš (Latvia) captures field recordings at the RIXC Fields residency

We are glad to welcome the Latvian artist Ivo Tauriņš! the RIXC Fields residency! He has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program 2025.
Residency website: https://air.rixc.org/

16/08/2025

Among Plants Exhibition Featuring Artworks of the Plants_Intelligence Research Project

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

Multimedia artist Yuchin Chen (Taiwan) joins the RIXC Fields Residency!

We are pleased to welcome Taiwanese artist Yuchin Chen at the RIXC Fields residency! The artist has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program 2025, in collaboration with Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan).
Residency website: https://air.rixc.org/

25/07/2025