Näitus "9 Conditions of Riga: Regeneration and Transformation of the City – Urban Environment and Architecture" 

Näitus

Punane Saal, Telliskivi Loomelinnak

Algus: 08.10.2015

Lõpp: 29.10.2015

Näitus "9 Conditions of Riga: Regeneration and Transformation of the City – Urban Environment and Architecture" on Tallinna Arhitektuuribiennaali satelliitprogrammi osa.

Näitus avatakse 8. oktoobril kell 17:00-19:00.

Exhibition "9 Conditions of Riga: Regeneration and Transformation of the City – Urban Environment and Architecture” is a satellite event of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2015 programme. The exhibition "9 Conditions of Riga" contributes to the overall theme of the biennale “Self Driven Cities” by questioning whether and how the very inhabitants or the 'self' of the city can actually maintain and influence or rather ‘drive’ the politics of the built environment and the city.

Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday 2 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Mondays – Closed.
Vernissage: October 8th, 5 p.m.
Venue: Red Hall (Punane Saal) at Telliskivi Creative City (C2)
Address: Telliskivi 60A, 10412 Tallinn.

This traveling exhibition "9 Conditions of Riga" was as an integral part of the larger project – European Cultural Days of the ECB – Latvia, organized by European Central Bank. For the first time this traveling exhibition was exhibited in House of Finance, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 2013. In 2014 it was exhibited in Riga, Latvia. In 2015 the exhibition goes to Tallinn, Estonia.

The curator and architect Oskars Redbergs in his concept is highlighting the emergence of new urban typologies by offering a new classification for buildings and urban intervention projects mostly built in last two decades in the Historic Centre of Riga – UNESCO world heritage protection zone. The goal of such classification is to reveal the relationship between the physical structure, its social structure (in its broadest sense) and the intangible constituents of modern capitalism.

"9 Conditions of Riga" presents architecture as both a process and an outcome of a complex and multilayered economic, social, cultural and political dialogue, which is influenced by the impact of different regulations and restrictions, as well as other important circumstances.

In his exhibition review "Learning from Riga", urban theorist and professor of the Plymouth University Krzysztof Nawratek emphasizes the following: "Exhibition "9 Conditions of Riga" is an interesting and ambitious project. Its purpose is to tell a story of the new Latvian (or rather Rigan) architecture, built since the re-establishment of the Latvian independence in 1991. However, the strength of this exhibition is not the quality of the presented projects (some of these projects are excellent, but some are - to put it mildly – controversial). Its strength lays in an attempt to find a new, original and precise language to tell this story."

The exhibition is divided into 9 thematic sections, which present more than 50 different examples of architecture and urban design projects of Riga, carried out by more than 20 international architecture firms. Story of the historical and contemporary architecture of Riga is told using the spatial experience created by an innovative curatorial concept and high quality exhibition design.

The exhibition has cognitive as well as representative character and it turns the exhibition venue into an interactive "learning classroom" where visitors are invited to involve and become active participants in shaping their own and unique story of Riga.

SUPPORTERS

Embassy of Latvia in Estonia
State Culture Capital Foundation (SCCF)
LIVE RIGA (The Riga Tourism Development Bureau Foundation)
Riga Municipal Agency “Riga City Architect’s Office”
The Association of Culture Institutions of Riga City Council
Megaphone Publishers
mT15. Foundation for Interdisciplinary Cooperation

ORGANIZERS

Curator: Oskars Redbergs
Project coordinator: Inga Karlštrēma
Concept: mT15. Foundation for Interdisciplinary Cooperation
Implementation: Megaphone Publishers
Immersive sound installation (TAB15 Edition): Geo Reisinger
Photographer: Aivars Siliņš
Exhibition Designers: Manten Devriendt, Liene Jākobsone (Sampling.lv)
Graphic Designers: Edgars Zvirgzdiņš (Associates, Partners et Sons Design & Development), Artis Tauriņš (formup.lv)
TAB15 Project Assistant: Ieva Lange

WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO:

His Excellency ambassador Juris Bone (Embassy of Latvia in Estonia)
Zenta Ļakša (DHM, Counsellor)
Agita Ikauniece (Latvian Cultural days of ECB)
Zanda Ķergalve (The Association of Culture Institutions of Riga City Council)
Marten Kaevats (TAB15)
Rebecca Kontus (TAB15)
Maria Derlõš (TAB CLUB15)
Solveig Jahnke (Estonian Academy of Arts)
Tauri Tuvikene (Tallinn University)

CURATOR

Oskars Redbergs is a Latvian architect, educator and curator. His main research focus is on the transformations of urban landscape of post socialist cities. He studied Architecture and Urban planning at the Riga Technical University (Latvia), Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS), The Royal Danish Academy of Fine arts – School of Architecture (Denmark), The Staatliche Hochschule der bildenden Künste (Staedelschule) Frankfurt’s Architecture Class (Germany).

Oskars Redbergs is a founder of The Riga School of Architecture and for the last 5 years he has been a Dean and a Lecturer of Faculty of Architecture and Design at RISEBA University in Riga.

Since 2009 he has been closely collaborating with the Swedish Institute and Fargfabriken in Stockholm. Currently he is working on his doctoral research at Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Germany.

He is a member of the board of the Latvian Association of Architects, MT15 forum and Megaphone Publishers. He is a curator of European Cultural Days of the European Central Bank (ECB) – Latvia, 2013. He is an author of various articles as well as editor of books "Mūsdienu kultūras stāvokļi / Conditions for Contemporary Culture. Riga" and "9 Conditions of Riga: Regeneration and Transformation of the City - Urban Environment and Architecture".