RIXC Festival: Plants Intelligence is nominated for the Annual Art Award of Latvia 2025 as the Event of the Year!
The beginning of 2026 marks a significant event in the Latvian visual arts– for the first time, the nominees for the new national award, the Latvian Art Award (LMGB), are announced.
14/02/2026
Audiovisual performance by artist Janis Garancs at the RIXC Gallery
A performative demonstration of the audiovisual installation “confluxus [+][×] corner portals” by artist Jānis Garančs will take place, inviting the audience to encounter the artwork in an expanded, processual, and experimental form.
19.02.2026 | 18:00
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2
Riga Last Thursday: Confluxus [+][×] corner portals by artist Janis Garancs at the RIXC Gallery
The exhibition examines how code and algorithmic systems in contemporary governance and economics pursue efficiency while generating errors with tangible social and environmental effects. On Riga Last Thursday, February 26, visit the exhibition until 21.00!
22.01.–14.03.2026 // Riga Last Thursday: 26.02., 18:00-21:00
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2
Open enrollment for sound art and electronic music studies at “AB12 kabinetā”
On February 7, a new art and research laboratory opened at 12 Aristīda Briāna Street, offering an alternative education program dedicated to sound art, music, new and old media, and audiovisual experiments.
“AB12 kabinets”, Aristīda Briāna iela 12
OPEN CALL: European Media Art Platform (EMAP) Artist Residencies 2026
The European Media Art Platform (EMAP) invites artists, artist duos, collectives, and artistic collaborations working in digital, media, robotic, and bio art to apply for a two-month production residency in 2026.
Applications deadline: 13th March 2026, 14:00 CET
Last Friday at SensUs Immersive Studio - Karlsruhe: XR Private Views
A light, salon-style open studio evening with XR, AR, light-sensing artworks, and conversation — no presentations, just experience. Free booking – RSVP: rasa@rixc.org or book a studio visit via Eventbrite HERE!
30.01.2026, 17:00–20:00
Karlsruhe, Germany
Down Deep. Living Seas, Living Bodies Exhibition in Poland
RIXC's partner, the State Art Gallery Gallery in Sopot, Poland, is organizing a large-scale exhibition "Deep Down" featuring artwork by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits.
30.10.2025.-04.04.2026. // Public opening: 30.10. at 18:00
State Art Gallery, Sopot, Poland
RIXC festival: Agrilogistics, “America’s revenge” and plant intelligence. Régine Debatty
"Plants radically different way of being in the world not only radically changes the view of the plant kingdom, it also ". Read the RIXC Festival 2025 review on We Make Money Not Art!
RIXC Festival website / archive: https://festival2025.rixc.org/
20/12/2025
During the holiday season – 40% discount on all RIXC books!
Wishing a happy holiday season, we offer 40% off the RIXC books – including the most recent RIXC published with Aalto University – Beyond the Hybrid (2024).
06.12.2025.-31.01.2026.
GREASY AGENDA exhibition by Uģis Albiņš – extended until January 10!
The exhibition reflect contemporary mechanisms of standardization and substitution and serve as a reflection on the dynamics of technological, economic, and social factors.
14.11.2025.–10.01.2026.
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2
“What if...?” exhibition in Bern features Plants_Intelligence artists
The exhibition "What If" features the work by 20 artists who explore the intricate relationships between nature, technology, and society. It is a collaboration with the Plants_Intelligence research project (SNSF 2022–2025) co-curator: Yvonne Volkart, artists: Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch, Rasa Smite, and Raitis Smits. More info HERE
27.11.2025.–01.02.2026. // Opening: 27.11.2025.
Kornhausforum, Bern, Switzerland
Light Resonances AR in Gwangju (Korea) and SensUs XR Showcase in Karlsruhe
Light Resonances AR in Korea, Solarceptors VR and Symbiotic Cities XR artworks at SensUs Studio Opening in Karlsruhe. Visit the artwork at the exhibition by Miro Centre (Korea), co-curated by Daria Mille on Metaverse HERE by October 31!
14.11.-31.12.2025.
Metaverse / Miro Center, Gwangju, Korea / SensUs Studio – Lessingstr. 25, Karslruhe (Germany)
Atmospheric Forest and Artist Talk by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits at the Södertörn University
On November 4, Rasas Šmite and Raits Šmite will give a public talk at Södertörn University in Stockholm, followed by the opening of their VR installation Atmospheric Forest on November 6.
Talk: 04.11.2025. // Installation opening: 06.11.2025., on-view until 18.12.2025.
Södertörn University, Stockholm
Immersive Climate Imaginaries – Open Lecture by Rasa Smite at ZHdK, Zurich
In her lecture Rasa Smite will talk on her research and 'multisensory ecological knowledge'; as a part of the Interfacing Ecologies Lecture Series at ZHdK, Zurich.
25.11.2025. 17.00 - 18.30
Kino Toni (3.G02) ZHdK, Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich
Their time is now and tomorrow. Interview with the RIXC festival co-curator Yvonne Volkart by Sergej Timofejev
"They [plants] are living beings with their own sense of time, which is different from ours." Read the interview on Arterritory!
22/11/2025
Vegetate, therefore I am. RIXC Festival review by Jana Kukaine
"Do plants think? [...] The assumption that plants are also capable of analyzing information, making decisions, learning, and solving problems not only radically changes our view of the plant world, but also challenges the definition of what it means to be human." Read on Arterritory!
22/11/2025
LAST DAY – RIXC Festival Exhibition: PLANTS INTELLIGENCE
The exhibition is developed in cooperation with the research project Plants_Intelligence (2022–2025) and features its outcomes, as well as other artworks by 14 local and international artists.
16.10. – 23.11.2025., Tue-Sun, 12.00-18.00
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, SPORTA 2 quarter
Fire dwells in Xylem performance by Tuan Mu and Rodolphe Macabéo
RIXC residency artists Tuan Mu and Rodolphe Macabéo will perform an eco-poetic sound performance based on the sound recordings from the Kemeri National Park as part of the Greasy Agenda exhibition opening by Uģis Albiņš.
Friday, 14.11.2025. at 19.00
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2
Multimedia artist Tuan Mu (Taiwan) joins the RIXC residency
RIXC is pleased to host the Taiwanese artist Tuan Mu at the RIXC residency in Riga! The artist has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program 2025, in collaboration with Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan).
09/11/2025
Sound artist Rodolphe Macabéo (France/Canada) arrives at the RIXC residency
We are glad to welcome the Franco-Canadian sound artist Rodolphe Macabéo at the RIXC residency in Riga! The artist has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program 2025, in collaboration with Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan).
09/11/2025
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