The key event of the RIXC Art Science Festival 2026 – festival exhibition “Climate Imagination” – will open on Thursday, 22 October, at 18:00 in the Exhibition Hall of the National Library of Latvia.

This year’s RIXC Art Science Festival and exhibition explores climate imagination as a cultural and scientific field where art, technology, and environmental research intersect. It brings together artists, researchers, and practitioners to explore imagination as a critical capacity for sensing and rethinking our relationships with the Earth at a time when climate change is reshaping ecosystems, infrastructures, and everyday life. The festival offers multisensory encounters with environmental change through artistic practices – from immersive media and extended reality (XR) to data visualisation and environmental sensing – deepening our understanding of how climate processes are perceived and imagined.

Exhibition artists: Maija DEMITERE (LV), Patricia DOMÍNGUEZ (CL), Anne Duk Hee JORDAN (KR/DE), Pauline DOUTRELUINGNE (BE/DE), Ryu FURUSAWA (JP), Marcus MAEDER (CH/IE), kennedy+swan (DE), knowbotiq in collaboration with Pablo TORRES (CH/AT/CO), Jurģis PETERS (LV) in collaboration with Laura BELOFF (FI), Mārtiņš RATNIKS (LV), Rasa SMITE (LV/CH), Raitis SMITS (LV), Benedikt TERWIEL in collaboration with ANOHNI (DE/US).

Curator: Raitis SMITS (LV).

Izstāde būs apskatāma līdz 2026. gada 12. decembrim.

More information:
https://festival2026.rixc.org/climate-imagination-exhibition/