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Opening of the GREASY AGENDA exhibition by Uģis Albiņš
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.–20.12.2025 / Opening: 14.11.2025 at 18:00
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2
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 of the GREASY AGENDA exhibition by Uģis Albiņš
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.–20.12.2025 / Opening: 14.11.2025 at 18:00
RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2
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
RIXC Festival Exhibition: PLANTS INTELLIGENCE
The exhibition is developed in cooperation with the research project Plants_Intelligence (2022–2025) and features its outcomes. The exhibition also includes other works in which artists explore the intelligence of plants through scientific, artistic, indigenous, anthropological, imaginative, and speculative perspectives.
16.10. – 23.11.2025.
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, SPORTA 2 quartier
Immersive Climate Imaginaries – Open Lecture by Rasa Smite at ZHdK, Zurich
Immersive Climate Imaginaries: Towards Multisensory Ecological Knowledge lecture by Rasa Smite will take place as part of the Interfacing Ecologies Lecture Series at ZHdK, Zurich.
25.11.2025. at 17.00
ZHdK, Zurich
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
"Plants_Intelligence" Symposium in Basel
After the RIXC Art Science Festival 2025: Plants Intelligence in Riga, the Plants_Inteligence Symposium will take place in Basel, organized by the RIXC partners, Plants_Intelligence team:Yvonne Volkart, Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch and Rasa Smite. It marks the conclusion of the four-year research project "Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant", which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and based at the Institute Art Gender Nature (IAGN) at HGK Basel.
31.10.-02.11.2025.
Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, in cooperation with HEK // Online
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
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
Plants Intelligence Project Artworks at the “What if...?” exhibition in Bern
The exhibition explores the intricate relationships between nature, technology, and society, presenting works that reflect on how these spheres intertwine and evolve. It is co-curated in collaboration with the Plants_Intelligence research project (SNSF 2022–2025) and features the final artworks created by the project team.
27.11.2025.–01.02.2026. // Opening: 27.11.2025.
Kornhausforum, Bern, Switzerland
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
RESONANCES OF NATURE: Workshop and Public Presentations
Another thematic perspective at this year’s RIXC Art Science Festival comes through collaboration with one of the RIXC’s longstanding partners, the Goethe-Institut Riga , which this year joins with the French Institute in Latvia and RIXC to present the Resonances of Nature project, supported by the Franco-German Cultural Fund.
Opening: 16.10. 2025, 14:00 // Performance: 17.10.2025, 18:00 // Workshop: 18.10.2025, 15:00
Art Academy of Latvia, Kalpaka bulvāris 13, k-2
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
RIXC recommends – Skaņu mežs 2025: contemporary music from hyperpop to noise music
The main guests of this year's experimental music festival Skaņu mežs will be hyperpop project Sega Bodega, experimental rock band These New Puritans, avant-garde rapper Fatboi Sharif, and contemporary jazz star Shabaka Hutchings.
03.–04.10.2025.
Culture Space "Hanzas Perons” (Hanzas ielā 16A)
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
RIXC Board Member and media artist Jānis Garančs to present his new work at the Ars Electronica Festival 2025
We are delighted to announce that RIXC Board Member and media artist Jānis Garančs will present his new work Latent Dictatorship Spirals at the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 in Linz, Austria.
05.–06.09.2025
Linz, Austria
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
Anna Manankina (Ukraine/Germany) is developing a new extended reality artwork at the RIXC residency
We are glad to welcome the artist Anna Manankina, Ukrainian artist based in Germany at the RIXC residency! She has been selected in collaboration with NAIA – Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art Association (Karlsruhe, Germany).
Residency website: https://air.rixc.org/
23/08/2025
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
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