“Točka” and “Pilot” – the doors are going to open the newest cultural places in Riga / Article / LSM.lv

Over the weekend – August 21 and 22 – two new, but very different cultural places will open their doors in Riga. “Point“Will operate on the periphery – in Sarkandaugava, in the premises of the former” Provodnik “factory, moreover, only for a certain period of time, but”Pilot”- in the elite Old Riga, where it will remain for a permanent life. –

In Sarkandaugava, on the premises of the former Provodnik factory, where rubber products were once produced for the vast Soviet Union, and then washing machines, a new contemporary art culture room with the jargon name “Točka” will operate for two months until October 18. More than 70 young artists promise to inhabit the three floors of the nearly 50 thousand square meter building.

“We are a point where connecting, for the first time in history, such a wide range of art genres and also discussions.

We have theater, dance, visual art, which includes sculpture, graphics, photographs, installations, ”explains Beatrise Zaķe, the author of the idea of ​​the cultural space“ Točka ”.

Already now, “Točka” plays, for example, Renate Klovina’s collages with the former authentic environment and 80’s poster shards, in which she combines texts found on the Internet with hand instead of virtually cut images. Arita Germova’s installations, on the other hand, study how we position our image on social networks, while Olga Melahina’s clay reproduces both her own and her friends’ footprints, in which the sown seeds will gradually begin to germinate.

“This work will develop throughout the exhibition, she will come and will actually continue to make its mark, and this is one of the works that develops our idea of ​​turning this building into a cultural space where all the time there is activity and that all artists are in the same house. places and interact, ”says Pamela Butāne, the author of the idea of ​​the cultural space“ Točka ”.

On August 26, the premiere of modern stereotypes in “Točka” will be played by “Heda. Human ”, but on August 29, a performance of choreographer Klāvs Liepiņš will take place in the former cinema hall of the building. The program of events will be constantly updated.

Beatrise Zaķe says: “We will have a show where people from the local community will take part, and accordingly we will talk to the Sarkandaugava spectator and people, and we will also be one of the points of view of the Lampa festival this year, and so we invite people to come and enjoy to live here and have a good day here. ”

The exhibition space “Pilots” of the Latvian Academy of Arts, which was created as a European project in cooperation with four art colleges from Dresden, Rome, Budapest and Riga, will now be located in a completely different atmosphere in Old Riga, Vagnera Street.

“The Academy of Arts, being a member of EU4Art or the University Alliance, has acquired an experimental space where our students will be able to exhibit their works now and in the future,” says Kristaps Zariņš, Rector of the Latvian Academy of Arts, emphasizing:

“And the fact that our students are visible in both Sarkandaugava and Old Riga indicates that the Academy of Arts is doing what it has to do.”

The hall’s opening exhibition, a joint exhibition of current and former students from four Alliance schools, describes the search for other perspectives in art, combining key words such as ‘collaboration’ and ‘openness’.

Another important stopping point in the concept of the exhibition is the experiment, says Auguste Petre, the curator of the exhibition “Vice Versa”: “Because they are artists working in different formats, with this classic visual image. Ilze Aulmane’s work in such a format as here has not been seen anywhere, very interesting, she works with paper. Mary Kitzings from Dresden paints such very interesting portraits; then we have Lucas Lovasha from Hungary, she works with food in her digital prints, processing and expanding them completely in her own way, and Stephen Mirago, who has more of that typical Italian metaphysical painting. ”

“In order to build a career, an artist must be in the international cauldron where to tear,” emphasizes Kristaps Zariņš. “And those winners are already spectators who come and either rejoice or grieve or get shocked, but any of these three things are, I think, vital.”

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