Riga Art Week (RAW), an exciting new city-wide art festival, aims to foster collaboration among art institutions, galleries, and creatives, highlighting Riga’s role as a new cultural hub. With a diverse programme catering to art professionals and the broader public, RAW offers a vibrant platform for contemporary art, cultural development, and public engagement, reinforcing Riga's image as a creative and evolving city.
In recent years, reality has increasingly felt contradictory, unpredictable and difficult to explain. Political, social and technological shifts are producing situations where logic seems fragile and everyday experience is full of paradoxes. Events that would recently have seemed impossible are becoming routine, and the line between the serious and the comic is ever harder to draw. In the RAW 2026 programme, artists turn to humour, irony and the absurd as ways of speaking about the uncertainty, tension and contradictions that define our era.