Alberta Street 13, Riga, LV-1010, Latvia
Riga,
Latvia
- Arts
Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) is a dynamic unit seeking connections between art and the current processes in the society, claiming the city and the surrounding reality as a field of creative possibilities, reacting to changes in the global art space by cooperation with artists and other art organizations, production work, information distribution, education, analysis, research, provocation, questioning, naming and frequently also trespassing the usual borderlines, as well as encouraging people to participate and be socially active.
The centre holds exhibitions, organizes the contemporary art festival SURVIVAL KIT, carries out research, collects and distributes information on contemporary art, arranges lectures, discussions, conferences, cultivates interdisciplinary and innovative culture initiatives, participates in creating culture policies.
LCCA initiates and leads local and international art projects and invites artists to actualize their creative ideas. The range of the projects implemented varies from ambitious and voluminous international exhibitions to the exhibitions created as a result of the carried out research projects and by less known or undeservedly forgotten authors.
LCCA also implements projects related to updating of the visual art data base and contextual documents, ensuring their preservation and public accessibility, including also publishing, creative enterprising and education programmes within the framework of different projects.
Main projects are regular Office Gallery exhibition and education programme, contemporary art festival SURVIVAL KIT, Digitising Contemporary Art (DCA) and research projects.
We can contribute with our experience and expertise in the event and exhibition making - by organizing collaborations and events that promote other cultures and culture diversity in general. We are willing to start series of new cooperations within this region and share our experience with the network partners and other culture and art organizations in Riga, Latvia.
We want to join the ALF Network, because recently we have started several cooperations with the Middle East region (in the framework of the SURVIVAL KIT 5 that will include in its reflections the Arab Spring and some Middle East artists and TANDEM SHAML cooperation program with "Rezodanse-Egypte" from Alexandria, Egypt) and thus we are also seeking a network, other organisations with whom to realize further cooperations and share the common interests and challenges. We also think that through this network we can be more active in promoting the culture of Middle East and Mediterranean countries in Riga, Latvia where it is still not very well known.