Place of surrender and renunciation. An exhibition dedicated to club culture / Day will take place in Riga

Contemporary art and club culture have historically been related fields. Now that nightlife is at a standstill, clubs are actively looking for a way to be reborn. The legendary Berlin Dance Club Berghain has become an art space, which exhibits the works of prominent artists.

Clubs can become important cultural venues, and the question arises – what can art space creators learn from these hedonistic dance fields? Is it possible to take something from the techno mecca let it go practices to free their visitors from secular consciousness, allowing them to truly open up to innovative experiences? What entices the partygoers and provides an invigorating club experience that you want to return to again and again?

The nightclub is a place of surrender and renunciation, it is about getting rid of the daily cultivated self-control mechanisms. However, this transformation can be interpreted both as a degrading ritual and as a fulcrum for growth potential.

Gallery Pilot will be transformed into an ephemeral and timeless space, and an exhibition Surrender will try to encapsulate the feeling of forgetfulness, trying to achieve individual and collective pleasure.

Latvian artists Karlīna Mežecka, Miķelis Mūrnieks, Rūdolfs Štamers and Augusts Zariņš, as well as Anna Dičerleina (Germany), Gopārs Liksajs (Hungary), Teresa Tufnere (Germany), Jozefs Panda (Germany) and Ilarium Restivo (Italy) will take part in the exhibition. The scenography of the exhibition was created by Rūdolfs Štamers, the graphic design by Sabīne Vernere.

Art space Pilot The Old Town is open from Tuesday to Sunday (12–18), free entrance.

The exhibition is part of the EU4ART Alliance’s cooperation project between the Hungarian Academy of Arts, the Dresden Academy of Arts, the Rome Academy of Arts and the Latvian Academy of Arts.

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