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RIGA 1 December – 31 January Kim? Kim? Contemporary Art Centre currently has a beguiling group exhibition of contemporary artists from around the globe titled Excess and Refusal: Towards Imaginative Opulence. The exhibition, curated by Keiu Krikmann, takes on a selection a value laden terms that have all tended to be understood and used with negative connotations. Terms like desire, excess, opulence, frivolity and others are situated, according to the exhibition booklet, as a

RIGA 1–12 December Low Gallery Since the arts and artists have come in for at least their fair share of difficulty from the COVID crisis, it is encouraging to see students and emerging young artists coming up with a work around. Es Nakšu Rīt, the current exhibition at Low Gallery, is a kind of collaboration between ISSP, ISSP mentor Vika Eksta and her second-year students, working in a kind of isolated, covid-safe collaboration. Each artist comes to the gallery alone and work

RIGA 30 October – 19 December Gallery 427 Tiled River Jānis Dzirnieks Gallery 427 is Riga’s central artist-run non-commercial space that was opened in 2014 and since then has complemented the city's art scene with more experimental and playful expressions of artistic freedom. 427 is an important place if you want to acquaint yourself with less conventional contemporary art practices primarily by (but not limited to) emerging Latvian and international artists that work within