An international contemporary art event analysing visual culture and artistic representation. Biennial is focusing on young and promising artists from the Baltics and other Nordic countries, as well as European countries in general, who are in the early stages of their creative careers. Programme also includes educational events.
The program of 2025 Biennial examines various aspects of the main theme 'invisible but present'. The central events of NEXT 2025 are two Awards—'Seeking the latest in photography!' and 'Emerging Curator!'—which young artists and curators of all three Baltic countries are invited to enter.
Key events of the Riga Photography Biennale NEXT 2025:
- 25.04-06.06. 'Pilot' Experimental Art Space of the Art Academy of Latvia (Kalpaka bulvāris 13) – NEXT 2025 'Emerging Curator!' award-winner Roberta Atraste's exhibition 'The Bureaucrat Who Secretly Reads Poems'.
- 25.04. 19:00 ISSP Gallery (Berga Bazārs, Marijas iela 13 k.3) – NEXT 2025 'Seeking the Latest in Photograhy!' award finalists' presentation evening.
- 26.04.-30.05. ISSP Gallery (Berga Bazārs, Marijas iela 13 k.3) – Solo exhibition of the winner of the NEXT 2025 Award 'Seeking the Latest in Photography!': Ruudu Ulas's 'Difficult Objects'.
- 30.04. 18:00 ISSP Gallery (Berga Bazārs, Marijas iela 13 k.3) – Lecture 'What is Next? The 'landscape of Polish Photography Today's by Adam Mazur.
- 09.05.-06.07. Riga Contemporary Art Space (Kungu iela 3) – Lesia Vasylchenko's solo exhibition 'Chronosphere'.
- 16.05.-29.06. Smilga Culture Space (Eduarda Smiļģa iela 34A) – Group exhibition 'Neurons Desperately Seek Each Other'.
- 16.05. 18:00 Pilot. Experimental Art Space of the Art Academy of Latvia (Kalpaka bulvāris 13) – Discussion 'The Curatorial Ethics'.
- 21.05. 18:00 ISSP Gallery (Berga Bazārs, Marijas iela 13 k.3) – Conversation 'Creative Realisation: Analogue and Digital Technologies'.
- 28.05. 18:00 ISSP Gallery (Berga Bazārs, Marijas iela 13 k.3) – NEXT 2025 NoRoutine Books prize - presentation of Triin Kerge's book 'Scenes From a Lost Family Album'.
- 31.05.-01.08. Gallery ALMA (Tērbatas iela 64) – Vika Eksta's solo exhibition 'Funeral in Sloboda'.
- 09.06.-22.06. Riga public transport stops – Outdoor project '(Inter)Faces of Predictions, or How to Read a Face'.
- 20.06.-02.08. Gallery ASNI (Krišjāņa Valdemāra iela 17A) – Pēteris Vīksna's solo exhibition 'This Feels Familiar'.