Telling Tales. Swiss and Baltic Artists
Location: 5th floor, Gallery of Contemporary Art
The exhibition includes artists that create national heritage and socio-political history, as well as fictional stories and myths. The artists are connected by the collective history of storytelling, but also by the context of personal narratives. Today, the focus in the humanities has moved almost entirely from great narratives to details, i.e. micro-histories, which has given new life to storytelling. The artists highlight ephemeral phenomena, fragments and seemingly unimportant details, which, on closer inspection, reveal various microcosms, historical fragments and positions that today’s world would not notice otherwise.
Artists:
Eglė Karpavičiūtė (Lithuania), Petra Köhle/Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin (Switzerland), Laurent Kropf (Switzerland), Paulis Liepa (Latvia), Dainius Liškevičius (Latvia), Lutz & Guggisberg (Switzerland), Marge Monko (Estonia), Katrīna Neiburga (Latvia), Sandrine Pelletier (Switzerland) and Liina Siib (Estonia).
Curator: Felicity Lunn (CentrePasquArt)
Project manager: Ragne Nukk
Exhibition design: Eve Arpo and Grete Veskiväli
Graphic design: Kätlin Tischler
Collaboration partners:
CentrePasquArt – Kunsthaus Centre d’art, Lithuanian National Gallery of Art and Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art
We thank:
The Embassy of Switzerland in Riga, the Honorary Consul in Tallinn.
Supporters:
Pro Helvetia, 4ROOM
