While we are preparing for the opening of Donna Huanca’s exhibition ‘UTOPIC CELLS’ at the Zuzeum Art Centre on September 20, we invite you to see works from the Zuzāns collection at other art institutions in Latvia and elswhere in Europe.
Anita Arbidāne (1983). Medusa. 2019. Photo: Normunds Brasliņš
🎨 Until September 15, Liepāja Museum is hosting a major retrospective of the artist Anita Arbidāne ‘Artworks On The Platter’, in partnership with Art Centre Zuzeum. Kristiāns Brekte’s scenography brings together twenty-eight works from the the Zuzāns Collection and new works created by the artist especially for this occasion.
🧡 Learn more about the exhibition here.
Aleksandra Beļcova (1892–1981). Summer Cottage in Jūrmala. Late 1920s. Photo: Jānis Pipars
🎨 At the exhibition ‘Jūrmala in Paintings and Drawings. From History’ curated by Jūrmala Museum (29 Tirgoņu Street, Jūrmala) visitors can dicover the city through the eyes of the artists. This is a unique opportunity to see works by Aleksandra Beļcova from various public and private art collections, including the painting Summer Cottage in Jūrmala from the Zuzāns Collection.
🧡 Learn more about the exhibition here.
Vilhelms Purvītis (1872–1945). Small town (Street in Dubulti). Around 1929. Photo: Jānis Pipars
🎨 Until November 9, the House of Aspazija (Z. Meierovica prospekts 18/20, Jūrmala) will host the exhibition ‘The Poet of Colours. Vilhelms Purvītis – Aspazija’s neighbour in Dubulti’, complemented by three works from the Zuzāns Collection. The exhibition features a painting by Vilhelms Purvītis, which has so far been exhibited under the title Small Town. Only now, through old postcards, historian Ainārs Radovics has discovered that the painting depicts two stores in Dubulti at 24 Mellužu Street (now Dubultu prospekts 10), which have not survived to the present day.
🧡 Learn more about the exhibition here.
Andris Eglītis (1981). From the series Through the Darkness. 2022. Photo: Jānis Pipars
🎨 Until November 3, Latvian National Museum of Art (Jaņa Rozentāla Square 1, Riga) will be hosting an exhibition by one of the most prominent Latvian painters of his generation, Andris Eglītis. In ‘Exhibition. Some Instances of Encounters between Imagination and Matter’ new works combine in conversation with earlier painting series providing an insight into the painter’s relationship with space and his experience in creating installations, sculptures and building constructions.
🧡 Learn more about the exhibition here.
Tala Madani (1981). Untitled. 2019. Photo: Jānis Pipars
🎨 Tala Madani’s work from Zuzāns Collection has travelled to the National Museum of Contemporary Art Αthens (ΕΜΣΤ) where the Iranian artist’s solo exhibition Shitty Disco is on until January 12. With more than forty paintings, drawings and stop-motion animations, the exhibition conjures up a metaphysical nightclub scene, somewhere between fantasy and nightmare.
🧡 Learn more about the exhibition here.
Māris Ārgalis (1954–2008). Eye. Around 1987. Photo: Jānis Pipars
🎨 From September 6 until October 6, Māris Ārgalis’s triptych Eye will be on view as part of the Contemporary Art Festival ‘Survival KIT’15’ (Strazdu Street 4, Riga). This year’s artistic director is Finnish curator Jussi Koitela, who with the festival concept ‘Measures’ invites to measure, explore and embrace the diverse, multi-layered knowledge about the city and its communities.
🧡 Learn more about the festival here.
Kārlis Brencēns (1879–1951). Church entrance and trees. 1904 – 1907.
🎨 On September 13, the Riga Bourse (Doma Square 6, Riga) will open an exhibition dedicated to Spanish painting ‘España Blanca y Negra: Vision of Spain, from Fortuny to Picasso’. The masterpieces of Spanish painters will be joined by works of three Latvian artists – Gustavs Šķilters, Kārlis Brencēns and Jāzeps Grosvalds. The exhibition includes works from 15 Spanish museums and private collections, as well as 7 works from the Zuzāns Collection.
🧡 Learn more about the exhibition here.
Inga Meldere (1979). Arcade project. 2023. Photo: Jānis Pipars
🎨 From September 20 to November 17, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre (Sporta Street 2, Riga) will open its doors to Inga Meldere and Louise Nežberte’s duo-exhibition ‘Sunpoles”’ Two generations of contemporary artists and two different artistic practices will create a symbiosis in the exhibition space.
Niklāvs Strunke (1894–1966). Boots. Mid 1930s. Photo: Jānis Pipars
🎨 From October 4 to November 20, the exhibition ‘Ciao, Niklāv Strunke!’ celebrating the 130th anniversary of Niklāvs Strunke will be on display at the Valmiera Museum Exhibition Hall (Bruņinieku Street 1, Valmiera). Visitors will discover the work of this versatile and unusual artist, including a few paintings and prints from the Zuzāns Collection.
🧡 Learn more about the exhibition here.
