The exhibition brings together works by 20 Latvian artists, spanning about a hundred years and revealing the capital from a variety of viewpoints, from the silhouettes of the Old Town’s towers and the city’s boulevards and monumental architecture to the courtyards of quiet neighborhoods and the city at night.
In art, the city is rarely simply a backdrop. It is a living environment in which the history of buildings, people’s everyday lives, and the changes of an era are intertwined. The exhibition is designed as a walk through the city, allowing visitors to recognise notable places, notice details that usually go unremarked, see the familiar city in a new light, and find their own Riga within it.
The exhibition features works by Jānis Brekte, Edgars Vinters, Herberts Siliņš, Valdis Bušs, Haralds Veldre, Pauls Duškins, Aleksandrs Zviedris, and other artists, allowing visitors to trace how paintings have captured the image of Riga over decades.