Misako & Rosen, Tokyo present Fergus Feehily at Rīga Confidential
Opening: 21 June, 6-9 pm
Participant presentations: 22 July 12-4 pm
22 June - 30 July, 2023
Participating institutions: 427 (Rīga), Alma (Rīga), Artbeat (Tbilisi), Editorial (Vilnius), Green Gallery (Milwaukee), Kim? (Rīga), LambdaLambdaLambda (Prishtina), Misako & Rosen (Tokyo), Temnikova Kasela (Tallinn)
Artists: Tamar Botchorishvili, Fergus Feehily, Kristians Fukss, Richard Galling, Vedran Kopljar, Katy Cowan, Ieva-Kraule Kūna, Liudmila (Miša Skalskis un Milda Januševičiūte), Ieva Putniņa, Līva Rutmane, Anastasia Sosunova, Līga Spunde, Sigrid Viir, Elīna Vītola, Dardan Zhegrova
Rīga Confidential brings together international, experimental and established galleries as well as non-profit art institutions from the Baltics, Japan, the US, Kosovo and Georgia to introduce the Latvian art audience to new names from exciting regions and to activate Rīga’s contemporary art market.
Rīga Confidential is to serve as a meeting point for art institutions, artists and the public, informing and democratizing art sales activities and promoting forms of support for art institutions and artists. The day after the opening, we invite you to an event in which gallerists will present and talk about their spaces and the history thereof, as well as about decades of working side by side with their artists, tools for promoting artists’ careers, collaborations with local creative communities from Milwaukee, Pristina, Tallinn, Tokyo, Vilnius, and Riga, their challenges, difficulties and, of course, successes. At the same time, our guests will be introduced to Rīga’s contemporary art and culture scene, accompanied by visits to artists’ studios and meetings with art students.
The name Rīga Confidential alludes to the Onsen Confidential gallery and art space exchange project in Tokyo, inspired by precedents such as Milwaukee International, Paramount Ranch, Condo, OKEY DOKEY, Friend of a Friend, and Villa projects (Villa Warsaw, Villa Reykjavik and Villa Toronto), as well as non-profit initiatives such as NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance), Paris Internationale and gallery associations such as CADAN (Contemporary Art Dealers Association of Japan) and IGA (International Gallery Alliance).