Projects in motion:

  • Exhibition “Snow Crystals. Electric Sparks”, Riga, Rīgas Mākslas telpa, 22.12.2016. – 19.01.2017

Projects accomplished:

  • Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 2016. Conservatism and Liberalism, Riga, Wagner Hall and city, 10.09.2016. – 28.10.2016
  • Exhibition Aigars Bikše “Infecting the Truth, Riga, Gallery “Daugava”, 16.12.2014. – 31.01.2015
  • Interactive installation “ONSEN”, Riga, 30.09. – 12.10.
  • Master class by artist Nishi Masaaki, Riga, 3.09. – 6.09.
  • The urban environment installation “Monument Wars” Riga, 27.03. – 26.10.
  • DVD: Ilmars Blumbergs “I would not die” Premiere on February 27. Cinema “K-SUNS”, Riga (Latvia)
  • European Public Art Centre – EPAC (2010 – 2012) – international cooperation project between 8 European countries – Latvia, Finland, United Kingdom, Estonia, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Iceland
  • Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 2012
  • “Myths of Contemporary Europe. The “theatre” with Static Pictures”(2010) – interdisciplinary and interactive art project (participating: Latvia, Spain, Germany, France, Greece, Sweden and Norway).
  • Contemporary Sculpture. Interests of Different Social Groups (2010) – In panel discussion participated six art professionals and curators from Baltic and Scandinavian countries. The aim of this discussion is to make a conceptual base for “Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 2012”, which would be based on the opinions, prognosis, based on diagnostic of possible problems, solutions and recommendations from experts.
  • Public Space and Intercultural Dialogue (2010) – international discussion/seminar, in which participated international culture professionals: Raimar Stange, art critic and curator (Germany), Claudia Zanfi, curator and researcher, Director of MAST (Museo Arte Sociale e Territoriale) (Italy), Henna Paunu, curator, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma Biennale Balticum 2010 (Finland), Laima Kreivyte, art critic and curator (Lithuania), Solvita Krese, curator and art critic, Contemporary art center, director of Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (Latvia), Aigars Bikše, artist,curator, professor of the Latvian Art Academy, Art Management and Information Centre (MMIC) board chairman (Latvia), Kristaps Gulbis, artist and curator, Art Management and Information Centre (MMIC) board member (Latvia).
  • Exhibition „It’s time to save the history”. The curator of the exhibition – Ilze Žeivate.
  • Catalogue „The Timer Rulers”/”Повелители времени”/. Māris Bērziņš – stories, Aigars Bikše – sculpture. SIA “Dienas Grāmata” edition, 2011.
  • “The Train Hasn’t Gone Yet”(2010) – cooperation between artists ant literates, which took place between the railroad stations Rīga – Dubulti.
  • Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 2008. The Dictatorship of Majority.
  • The Republic of the Bacon street. One of the districts in Riga (called the suburb of Latgale / “Latgales priekšpilsēta”) has developed of its own republic (from the historical processes), with its own peculiar appearance, unconstrained environment and with the interaction of different cultures. In the Maskavas forštate (part from the “suburb of Latgale” district) is a small street, that has been named “Bacon street” – bacon is very relevant for Latvian people. It is so short, that there aren’t buildings on it. It is almost like virtual reality and, probably, caries inwardly some special – mythological – key, which the authors of the installation has implemented in their works, which are distributed in “Latgales priekšpilsēta” district, int. al. Bacon street locality. The installations of the project: “For everybody, who has sacrificed their own time for the possession of the virtual reality” (Aigars Bikše); “The Empire”(Ginters Krumholcs), “Here’s no security cameras”(Kristaps Gulbis), “The Buda of the suburb”(Kirils Panteļējevs), “Stop-frame”(Elīna Poikāne).
  • In the summer of 2008 in Amsterdam Culture Park “Westergasfabriek” were the open air exhibition “Homo Urbanus —Homo Sapiens?”, where participated different authors fromLatvia and Netherlands who created different objects and installations for this project.  Herewith all the sculptures in the territory of the “Westergasfabriek” also were located the “Pink House”. There were two photo-exhibitions in it (“Art nouveau” and “The exhibition of the Latvian song and dance festival”). Also there were possibility to attend Latvian art, documentary and drawing-movie programme by National Film Centre of Latvia.
  • Generation Europe – interdisciplinar activity programme and cooperation network. Activities of the project took place in mobile and multifunctional culture space “PINK HOUSE”, which has been installed over two years of realisation in 9 countries of Europe – in Greece, Hungary, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Estonia and Latvia. With this project MMIC participated in 51st International Biennal of Venice. http://www.pinkhouse.lv
  • „Les Reflets” (“Reflections”). Exposition in Jūrmala’s city space. 31. 05. – 15.09. 2007. “Les Reflets” intervenes in the Jūrmala surroundings in a seemingly innocent manner, presenting large – scale photographs that remind of the common style of visual ads, inviting a slightly ironic, provoking or simply funny conversation about the human body and related popular views and prejudices. Three experienced French artists (Lionel Scoccimaro, Natacha Leseur) created conceptualised series of human images, consistently using photographic means. French artists protest against contemporary Western lucky men’s care-worn foreheads, using more or less charming and frivolous jokes.
  • E(Š)AN(Ž)E- Creative workshop started in autumn 2005 when five Latvian artists – Izolde Cēsiniece, Ēriks Božis, Aigars Bikše, Kristaps Gulbis and Gints Gabrāns left for France visiting the ancient towns of Rennes and Lorient in Brittany where they lived and worked together with five French artists – Nelly Massera, Samuel Boche, Boris Jakobek, Stephane Tesson and Gilles Le Nain. The first step of the creative workshop took place during the Latvian culture season – the festival “étonnante Lettonie” (“Suprising Latvia”). Its success gave an impulse to continue the project. In summer 2007 these French artists arrived in Latvia to work together with already familiar Latvians, creatively transforming the harsh environment of the Karosta district in Liepāja. So, the satellite project “E(š)an(ž)E” of the reciprocal event “Un Printemps Français” (“French Spring”) was completed in Karosta, leaving some quite particular examples of French creative spirit in the local space of visual culture.
  • Site-actions International 2005 Sense in Place – interdisciplinary visual art cooperation project between six European countries – Wales, Poland, Spain, Iceland, Ireland and Latvia. The main organizer of this project was the UWIC (Art & Science research centre) in cooperation with the art organization called “Artists Projects” in Cardiff. The website of the project: www.site-ations.org/senseinplace/.
  • “Correspondence 04/05” (2005). Art project exhibition in Art Academy of Latvia (Riga/Bremen).
  • XIII Tallinn Graphics Triennial IN EXILE (2004). Curators from Latvia: Guntars Sietiņš and Juris Petraškevičs.
  • “Correspondence 2004”. Art project of Riga and Bremen.
  • Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 2004. European space.
  • Informal Culture Background (2004).  Informal history in stories and photographs about Art Academy of Latvia.
  • Catalogue of Valdis Villerušs (artist) artworks, 2004.
  • Is Riga ready already?(2004). Floating object in the canal of Riga city.
  • International festival of music traditions “Riga Music” (2003)
  • Zanussi contest for sculptors (2003)
  • Blues festival “Pelican Blues” (2002 – 2003)
  • Superfluity (2002) – a number of seminars and exhibition in Riga in which participated 10 artists from Britain. Project accomplished in cooperation with British Council Latvia
  • Sculptors for Latvia’s country side (2002). In support of art activities in country side of Latvia, in the civil parish centre of Jaunpils is exhibited sculpture “Major and Minor” of Gļebs Panteļejevs for three years.
  • CD “Blues.lv” (2002)