Opening of the GREASY AGENDA exhibition by Uģis Albiņš
The exhibition reflect contemporary mechanisms of standardization and substitution and serve as a reflection on the dynamics of technological, economic, and social factors.
14.11.–20.12.2025 / Opening: 14.11.2025 at 18:00
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2
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
"Plants_Intelligence" Symposium in Basel
Following the RIXC Art Science Festival 2025: Plants Intelligence in Riga, featuring the exhibition opening on 16 October 2025, the ‘Plants_Intelligence’ symposium will take place from 31 October to 2 November 2025 at the Basel Academy of Art and Design (HGK) FHNW.
The symposium marks the conclusion of the four-year research project Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and hosted by the Institute Art Gender Nature (IAGN) at HGK Basel FHNW.
It will bring together the project team – Yvonne Volkart (Principal Investigator) and artists Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch, and Rasa Smite – who will discuss their findings in dialogue with leading theorists, scientists, artists, curators, activists, and the audience.
Free registration HERE.
31.10.-02.11.2025.
Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, in cooperation with HEK // Online
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
Atmospheric Forest and Artist Talk by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits at the Södertörn University
On November 4, Rasas Šmite and Raits Šmite will give a public talk at Södertörn University in Stockholm, followed by the opening of their VR installation Atmospheric Forest on November 6.
Talk: 04.11.2025. // Installation opening: 06.11.2025., on-view until 18.12.2025.
Södertörn University, Stockholm
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
Join Us and Register for RIXC’s 25-Year Anniversary Festival: Plants Intelligence!
We’re turning 25! Celebrate with us — all events are free (register HERE!), featuring Plants Intelligence (CH), Resonance of Nature (DE–FR–LV), Symbiotic Futures (Nordic–Baltic), and other partnerships.
Learn more about the festival, symposium and film screening programme!
16.-18.10.2025
Riga, Latvia / Online
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
RESONANCES OF NATURE: Workshop and Public Presentations
Another thematic perspective at this year’s RIXC Art Science Festival comes through collaboration with one of the RIXC’s longstanding partners, the Goethe-Institut Riga, which this year joins with the French Institute in Latvia and RIXC to present the Resonances of Nature project, supported by the Franco-German Cultural Fund.
Opening: 16.10. 2025, 14:00 // Performance: 17.10.2025, 18:00 // Workshop: 18.10.2025, 15:00
Art Academy of Latvia, Kalpaka bulvāris 13, k-2
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
RIXC recommends – Skaņu mežs 2025: contemporary music from hyperpop to noise music
The main guests of this year's experimental music festival Skaņu mežs will be hyperpop project Sega Bodega, experimental rock band These New Puritans, avant-garde rapper Fatboi Sharif, and contemporary jazz star Shabaka Hutchings.
03.–04.10.2025.
Culture Space "Hanzas Perons” (Hanzas ielā 16A)
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
RIXC Board Member and media artist Jānis Garančs to present his new work at the Ars Electronica Festival 2025
We are delighted to announce that RIXC Board Member and media artist Jānis Garančs will present his new work Latent Dictatorship Spirals at the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 in Linz, Austria.
05.–06.09.2025
Linz, Austria
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
Anna Manankina (Ukraine/Germany) is developing a new extended reality artwork at the RIXC residency
We are glad to welcome the artist Anna Manankina, Ukrainian artist based in Germany at the RIXC residency! She has been selected in collaboration with NAIA – Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art Association (Karlsruhe, Germany).
Residency website: https://air.rixc.org/
23/08/2025
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
Techniques for Suspending the World exhibition by Zane Zelmene at the RIXC Gallery
An opportunity to step out of everyday thinking and into new territories of perception, pushing the boundaries of both individual and collective experience.
03.07.– 23.08.2025
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2
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
Krista Dintere (Latvia) is creating a new sound artwork at the RIXC Fields Residency
We are glad to welcome the Latvian artist Krista Dintere the RIXC Fields residency! Krista Dintere has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program 2025.
Residency website: https://air.rixc.org/
29/07/2025
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
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