Venues

Wagner Hall

Wagner Hall is located at Riharda Vāgnera Street 4 – in a building designed by Baltic-German architect Kristofs Hāberlands. The Rīga City Theatre had its home here in the late 18th century, and the German composer and conductor Richard Wagner worked in the building in the 1830s. The State Chamber Orchestra Simfonietta Rīga worked at Vāgnera Hall several years ago, but the building, which is owned by the Ministry of Culture, in 2014 remained empty and unused, as the funds needed for its reconstruction weren't found. During the Survival Kit festival, contemporary art works were displayed at Vāgnera Hall, and a variety of events were held.

Boļševička textile factory

The former Boļševička Textile Factory building was built in the early 20th century as the Buffalo Leather Shoe Factory – the coal for its furnace was brought by large boats along specially created canals and otter ponds. The building itself was built as a modern brick structure with large glass windows.

Art historian Silvija Grosa describes its architecture as "the embodied realization of striking industrial architecture and rationalist concept, an example of a reinforced concrete carcass structure. Its style could be described as proto-functionalist, gaining expression in the late Art Nouveau period".

A textile factory was set up in the building during the Soviet era and it was later privatized and sold in the years following the renewal of Latvia’s independence. A private bank, Rietumu banka is the current owner and manager of the building. They gradually clean up the waste left over from the Soviet years which remains on the territory.