Media event:
Cornucopia

On Friday, 25 September 2026, at 11.00 the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE invites mass media representatives to the presentation of Cornucopia exhibition from the museum collection.

Registration of participants:
10.30–11.00


The cornucopia, usually depicted in a positive and affirmative form, symbolises unlimited material and spiritual abundance. In a sense, a museum with its collection is also like a cornucopia: only a small part of its riches is visible, while the rest waits in storage for researchers and exhibition curators. And yet… What is a museum today? What kinds of exhibitions are created, and for whom? Can anything become an exhibit, and does the “cornucopia” also have limits to its capacity?

The exhibition, which will be on view at the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE from 26 September 2026 to 3 January 2027, explores the concept of the cornucopia through the diversity, research and interpretation of the museum collections, highlighting its openness to change and responses to the socio-political situation. The exposition is structured along two parallel lines: the symbolism of the cornucopia in different cultures and religions, and an inquiry into the museum as an institution. Painting, graphic art, sculpture, decorative and applied arts, numismatics are the media through which the narrative of the exhibition is developed and questions are raised – questions for which there may not yet be clear answers in our rapidly changing world.

The display is mostly based on works of art that have either been inaccessible to visitors for decades or have never been exhibited before.