The theme of the 2021 exhibition is “Plants.” The artists were invited to explore the relationships between humans, plants and nature in general. Living in the city, it is easy to ignore plants or view them merely as decorative elements. However, their impact on our lives and the importance of the relationships between them is far greater than we might imagine. Finding ourselves in nature, we can shed the stereotype that we are slaves to it, and instead realise that we are inescapably dependant on each other. The constant rejuvenation process which plants undergo may be a source of terror or inspiration. The constant cycles of life remind us that we can’t just stay in the same place, hold back the inevitable or speed up the natural order of things.

 

The museum received 47 applications from 17 different countries.

The works for the exhibition are selected by a jury: Riga Porcelain Museum Director Iliana Veinberga, Riga Porcelain Museum Chief Collection Curator Dzintra Romanovska, Riga Porcelain Museum Expositons and Exhibitions Curator Ieva Nagliņa, Riga Porcelain Museum Documents Systems Manager Monta Cimdiņa and artist Dainis Pundurs.

 

Selected artists:

Ho Lam Suzanne Au (Honkong)

Juris Bergins (Latvia)

Dace Blūma (Latvia)

Julia Dogoliatskaya (Germany)

Ilze Emse-Grīnberga (Latvia)

Katerina Geiduka (Belarus, Latvia)

Merike Hallik (Estonia)

Helena Hlusickova (Czech Republic)

Pille Kaleviste (Estonia)

Jiří Laštovička (Czech Republic)

Dainis Lesiņš (Latvia)

Inese Margēviča (Latvia)

Hanna Marshava (Belarus)

Hanna Miadzvedzeva (Belarus)

Anca Mihaila (Rumania)

Ludmila Nazina and Sergej Rusakov (Russia)

Dicle Öney (Turkey)

Eleonora Pastare (Latvia)

Valda Podkalne (Latvia)

Juta Rindina (Latvia)

Ekaterina Sazonova (Latvia/Russia)

Ivanda Spulle-Meiere (Latvia)

Agnese Sunepa (Latvia)

Elita Taube (Latvia)

Joanna Teper (Poland)

Joy Trpkovic (Great Britain)

Yi-hui Wang (Taiwan)

 

In the picture: Fragment of artwork “The Seeds”. Artist Joanna Teper (Poland). 2021.