EMAP Networking Conference in Braga, Portugal

The European Media Art Platform (EMAP) is a network comprising 16 leading European media and digital art organizations. EMAP representatives and selected EMAP residency 2026 artists met for the first time at the EMAP networking conference at the gnaration center in Braga, including RIXC representative Agnese Baranova and RIXC residency artist Agnieszka Pokrywka (PL/FI).

08.-09.05.2026.

gnaration, Braga, Portugal

Taiwanese artist Chia-Yi Chen at the RIXC residency in Riga

We are happy to announce that the Taiwanese artist Chia-Yi Chen has arrived at the RIXC residency in Riga! The residency takes place in collaboration with Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan).

11/05/2026

Atmospheric Forest at the Riga Photography Biennial

The Zoom In: Ecology exhibition features nine reflections on the convergence of humans with digital technologies and/or nature, exploring digital activities impact ecosystems, natural resources, and human nature, including the Atmospheric Forest artwork by Rasa Šmite and Raits Šmits.

Opening: 16.04., at 18.00 // 17.04.-14.06.2026.

Exhibition hall: Riga Contemporary Art Space

The Atmospheric Forest VR Experience as part of the "Kantastrofa" program – at the "Dzīvotnes" mini-festival

Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits will participate in the 3rd "Dzīvotnes" mini-festival of the "Kantastrofa" program with an artist talk and the Atmospheric Forest VR artowrk The mini-festival’s theme will bring together critical speculations about the future—about the environment in which we would like to live in ecological, technological, and sociopolitical terms.

24.04.2026. at 20.00

K. K. fon Stricka villa

RIXC Gallery opening hours during the Easter holidays

April 2
12:00–18:00
April 3 
closed
April 4
12:00–18:00
April 5-6
closed

02.04.–06.04.26

RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2

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!

24.04.2026, 17:00–20:00

Karlsruhe, Germany

Open enrollment for sound art and electronic music studies at “AB12 kabinets”

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

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

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 challenges our definition of what it means to be human". Read the RIXC Festival 2025 review on We Make Money Not Art!

RIXC Festival website / archive: https://festival2025.rixc.org/

20/12/2025

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