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Raitis Smits participates in the LAMPA Conversation festival 2025

The discussion “Nordic Open Archives and Digital Futures” will address how artists and museums in the Nordic and Baltic countries are using artificial intelligence, augmented reality and Web3 to make cultural heritage interactive and accessible to everyone.

20.06.2025 | 12:30–13:30

Cēsis Castle Park

Keynote Talk by Rasa Smite at the BIFoR meeting – “Atmospheric Forests. Immersive Visualisations for Climate Experiences”

The keynote takes place as part of the BIFoR Annual Meeting: Forest Trace and will be followed by a lunch time immersive exhibit: Atmospheric Forest by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits.

24.06.2025., 11.50–13.30

Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre, Hornton Grange, UK

Adnan Softić (Germany) Lands in Riga as the First Artist in RIXC’s Immersive Art and Nature Residency

The new program takes place with the support of the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia – first residency is part of a joint initiative with the Resonances of Nature project by the Goethe-Institut Riga and the French Institute in Latvia, supported by the Franco-German Cultural Fund.

14/06/2025

RIXC Art Science Festival 2025 announces the participating artists

This year’s RIXC Festival will delve into the “plant intelligence" theme, exploring ideas such as “learning like a plant” amidst the ongoing climate crises and the still scarcely unfolded relations between natural and artificial intelligence.

16.10. – 23.11.2025

Kim? Contemporary Art Centre / RIXC Gallery / Art Academy of Latvia

Exhibition opening: Techniques for Suspending the World by Zane Zelmene

An opportunity to step out of everyday thinking and into new territories of perception, pushing the boundaries of both individual and collective experience. 

03.07.– 23.08.2025 // Opening: 03.07. at 18:00

RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2

Resonances of Nature project in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Riga and French Institute in Latvia

As part of this project, artists from three countries will create new artworks to be presented at this year’s RIXC Art Science Festival: Adnan Softić (Germany), Marylou Sharrock (France), and Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits (Latvia).

18.10.2025

Riga, Latvia

We announce the first selected RIXC Immersive art and nature residency artists!

First selected residency artists:

Yuchin Chen (Taiwan), Krista Dintere (Latvia), Anna Manankina (Ukraine/Germany), Isabella Münnich (Germany), Oleksandr Sirous (Ukraine), Adnan Softić (Germany) and Ivo Tauriņš (Latvia).

More on the RIXC residency website: https://air.rixc.org/

13/06/2025

The "Gauja Manuport No. 2" exhibition by Artūrs Punte and Jēkabs Voļatovskis at the RIXC Gallery

The exhibition is a continuation of the artists' research into the use of free energy in art and invites visitors to experience the landscape of the Gauja riverside in a kinetic installation, illuminating natural energy as a creative material. 

08.05.– 21.06.2025

RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2

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40% off until September 1, 2025! Buy at the RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2, Riga (Wed–Sat, 12:00–18:00) / Online Shops or order via rixc@rixc.org – pay by bank transfer or PayPal (Shipping included in Europe, +€6 elsewhere)

2025

RIXC, Latvia

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

The RIXC Art Science Festival 2025 on "plant intelligence"

This year’s RIXC Festival will delve into the “plant intelligence" theme, exploring ideas such as “learning like a plant” amidst the ongoing climate crises and the still scarcely unfolded relations between natural and artificial intelligence. Curated by Raitis Smits and Yvonne Volkart, the exhibition is a collaboration with the SNSF-funded project “Plants_Intelligence” (2022–2025), while the workshops and performances are co-organized with "Resonances of Nature" project by Goethe-Institut Riga and French Institute in Latvia.

16.10. – 23.11.2025

Kim? Contemporary Art Centre / RIXC Gallery / Art Academy of Latvia

Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits Nominated for the First Baltic Award 2025 in Art

The first edition of Baltic Award honors the most outstanding personalities of the Baltic States in music, art, science and architecture.

13.05.2025

LNMM, Riga, Latvia

Riga Art Week – Gallery Late and Artist Talk "Reconstructing Sound Landscapes"

During Riga Art Week (RAW), as part of Gallery Late on May 29, RIXC Gallery will remain open until 22:00 and invites you to an artist talk with Artūrs Punte and Jēkabs Voļatovskis.

29.05.2025. / Talk 18.00 / Exhibition Open 12.00-22.00

RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2

AI Herbarium – the latest artwork in the Solarceptors series by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits

The artists use artificial intelligence (machine learning) algorithms to visualise the evolutionary processes of flowering plants in order to show how they are affected by rapid climate change.

16.03–17.08.2025.

Museum Sinclair-Haus in Bad Homburg, Germany.

The artwork by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits in the "Among Plants" exhibition at the Sinclair-Haus Museum

Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits have been focusing on the artistic study of plants since 2022. Their artwork 'Solarceptors' is part of the "Plants Intelligence" artistic research project.

16.03–17.08.2025.

Museum Sinclair-Haus in Bad Homburg, Germany.

FINISSAGE: Sabīne Šnē "Tidal Tear Sediment"

On April 26, the RIXC gallery will host the closing event of Sabine Šnē solo exhibition "Tidal Tear Sediment", in collaboration with the artists collective PR0 Bi$TR0!

26.04.2025. / 12:00–18:00

RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2

Call for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residencies is Closed

RIXC residency website: https://air.rixc.org/

The call for the Latvian artists (1 artist, August, 2025) and Baltic/Latvian artists (1 artist, November-December, 2025) is closed.

17/04/2025

Sound days festival in Liepaja

From 22 to 26 April 2025, Liepāja will host the 12th International Sound Days Festival - an interdisciplinary event combining music, visual and sound art in creative workshops, an exhibition, performances and electronic music concerts.

22.04. – 26.04.2025

Liepaja, Latvia

The "Tidal Tear Sediment" exhibition by Sabīne Šnē at the RIXC Gallery

In Tidal Tear Sediment, Sabīne Šnē explores human and water fluid connections by weaving together stories of the Baltic Sea with ideas from hydrofeminism, which higlihts that water is in all of our bodies and through that we are connected with each other and with the planet.

6.03.–26.04.2025

RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2

RTU Liepāja Academy and RISEBA Doctoral Programme "Media Art and Creative Technologies" Doctoral Thesis Defence

Doctoral students Maija Demitere, Aigars Ceplītis and Elīna Veira defended their doctoral theses.

26.–27.03.2025.


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Rasa Smite un Raitis Smits

Solarceptors
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