Join Us and Register for RIXC’s 25-Year Anniversary Festival: Plants Intelligence!

We’re turning 25! Celebrate with us — all events are free (register HERE!), featuring Plants Intelligence (CH), Resonance of Nature (DE–FR–LV), Symbiotic Futures (Nordic–Baltic), and other partnerships.

Learn more about the festival, symposium and film screening programme!

16.-18.10.2025

Riga, Latvia / Online

FESTIVAL KEYNOTES: Noelia Billi (AR), Jana Kukaine (LV) and Yvonne Volkart (CH)

This year’s public keynotes will be delivered by Argentinian philosopher and researcher Noelia Billi, Latvian eco-feminist and art theorist Jana Kukaine, and Swiss art and media theorist Yvonne Volkart — principal investigator of the Plants_Intelligence research project. Entry is free – register HERE!

Thursday, 16.10.2025, 15:30 // Friday, 17.10.2025, 15:00

Art Academy of Latvia, Kalpaka bulvāris 13, k-2 // Online

WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCES: Klimaton by Adnan Softić

German artist Adnan Softić contributes performance in collaboration with Latvian and German artists and workshop using his Klimaton Arctic, a musical instrument that transforms scientific data from the MOSAiC Arctic expedition into sound, making the climate crisis tangible through immersive listening.
Free registration: for performance HERE and workshop HERE!

Performance: 17.10.2025, 18:00 // Workshop: 18.10.2025, 15:00

Art Academy of Latvia, Kalpaka bulvāris 13, k-2

The Transition Ecologies Exhibition by Maija Demitere at the RIXC Gallery

The exhibition reflects on the shifting relationship between humans and nature, as old balances collapse and the need for new ecological connections emerges. 

04.09.–25.10.2025

RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2

INSERT#7 Issue Opening: Plant Intelligence Featuring AI Herbarium by Rasa Smite

In INSERT#7, read about the work of artists and researchers of  the Plants_Intelligence project “towards a vegetal aesthetics”, including Rasa Smite’s “AI Herbarium. Flowering Plants as Inventors of Their Own Existence”.

Thursday, 28.08.2025., at 18.00-21.00

Old Botanical Garden, Palm House, entrance at the corner of Talstrasse/Badweg, 8001, Zurich, Switzerland

Ivo Tauriņš (Latvia) captures field recordings at the RIXC Fields residency

We are glad to welcome the Latvian artist Ivo Tauriņš! the RIXC Fields residency! He has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program 2025.
Residency website: https://air.rixc.org/

16/08/2025

Among Plants Exhibition Featuring Artworks of the Plants_Intelligence Research Project

The Unter Pflanzen exhibition, curated by Kathrin Meyer and Yvonne Volkart, features artworks by Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch, Rasa Smite, and Raitis Smits, created as part of the Plants_Intelligence research project funded by SNSF, as well as other works by artists who work with plants.

16.03–17.08.2025.

Museum Sinclair-Haus in Bad Homburg / Frankfurt, Germany

Multimedia artist Yuchin Chen (Taiwan) joins the RIXC Fields Residency!

We are pleased to welcome Taiwanese artist Yuchin Chen at the RIXC Fields residency! The artist has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program 2025, in collaboration with Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan).
Residency website: https://air.rixc.org/

25/07/2025

Artist Oleksandr Sirous (Ukraine) joins the RIXC Fields Residency!

Starting from July 12, 2025, RIXC is pleased to welcome the next artist at the RIXC Fields residency – Oleksandr Sirous (Ukraine)! He has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Programme 2025 in collaboration with Photinus Studio (Ukraine).
Residency website: https://air.rixc.org/

14/07/2025

Raitis Smits participates in Riga Contemporary Art Fair 2025 programme

As part of Riga Contemporary, a programme of talks and performances will bring together artists, representatives from international galleries, art advisors, Baltic collectors, and other creative industry professionals, fostering meaningful discussions and engagement within the contemporary art scene.

12.07.2025, from 15:40 to 16:10

Hanzas Perons, Riga