Group exhibition, 2009
The concept of “The Wonderful Trip” exhibition is mostly about the desire to include art in a survival kit, along with practical items and survival strategies. Art, just like life, is a journey. And there are various journey strategies. On the one hand, artists travel a lot to acquire new impressions; on the other hand, their work later becomes a kind of a journey for the spectator. The same goes for books and music. Thus a journey can be not only physical but also spiritual, taking place in one’s imagination.
In this exhibition artists will reveal their unique travelling experience: from childhood to now, from Latvia to foreign lands, from art history to individual creation. The exhibition does not claim to give unambiguous answers or a nice row of self-assuring postcards; it rather tries to reveal individual strategies of the artists and their road to the revelation of a miracle, full of doubt and accident.
Participants: Diāna Adamaite, Linda Blanka, Jānis Blanks, Mārtiņš Blanks, Aija Bley, Harijs Brants, Patrīcija Brekte, Lilija Dinere, Roberts Diners, Andris Eglītis, Flēra Fedjukova, Miķelis Fišers, Mārtiņš Grauds, Keta Gūtmane, Anna Heinrihsone, Vidaga Karpenko, Kristīne Keire, Kate Krolle, Daiga Krūze, Anda Lāce, Kaspars Lielgalvis, Lita Liepa, Eva Lilienfelde-Meldere, Mare & Rol‘s, Inga Meldere, Agata Muze, Elīna Poikāne, Laura Prikule, Ilze Raudiņa, “Rijada“, Katrīna Sauškina, Rasa Šulca, Ilze Vanaga, Solveiga Vasiļjeva, Ieva Veita, Eva Vēvere, Kristaps Zariņš, Visvaldis Ziediņš.
Project Director: Kaspars Lielgalvis
Curator: Ieva Kulakova