Jānis Krievs. The Bygone Future

"The Bygone Future" is the first solo exhibition of the renowned Latvian designer and environmental artist Jānis Krievs, providing a unique opportunity to explore the artist’s creative legacy in design, kinetics, environmental and interior art. His creative legacy has a special, distinguished place in the history of Latvian design.

The exhibition will provide viewers with a unique opportunity to experience the atmosphere of the 1970s and 1980s through the prism of one designer's creative work. The illogy enclosed in the exhibition’s title The Bygone Future is ambivalent – it combines the artist's futuristic, forward-orientated creativity with the actual situation that his most significant realized objects have been realized but have not survived to the present day.
In order to give the viewer a broader idea of the scope of Jānis Krievs' work and the impact of the techniques used to organize space, not only the artist's drawings and sketches will be on display, but also a creative interpretation of them in real dimensions. Moreover, there will be an opportunity to "walk through" the interior of the railway station in an interactive digital reconstruction. The exhibition will highlight the most important qualities of the artist's work: his vision of the future, his sense of presence, and his complex approach.