Media tour:
Wandering the Streets: Urban Visions of Latvian Modernists
On Friday, 30 January 2026, at 12.00 the Latvian National Museum of Art invites mass media representatives to the press tour of the exhibition Wandering the Streets: Urban Visions of Latvian Modernists.
Venue:
Main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art /
4th Floor Exhibition Halls, Cupola Hall (5th floor)
Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1, Riga
Registration of participants:
11.30–12.00
The exhibition Wandering the Streets: Urban Visions of Latvian Modernists, which will take place in the 4th- and 5th-floor galleries of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art from 31 January to 26 July 2026, offers insight into the relationships between the city, literature and art in the first decades of the 20th century.
The first half of the 20th century was a time of rapid change in Latvian and European culture. The exhibition invites visitors to trace the experiences of Latvian writers and artists in three significant cities – Riga, Berlin and Paris. They were flâneurs and flâneuses – leisurely observers of the city who documented modern architecture, traffic, advertising, shop windows, the sounds and rhythms of urban space in texts and images. In a similar way, visitors to the exhibition will wander among the exhibits, sensing the atmosphere of the era and becoming acquainted with its visual language.
The combination of literature and art in the exhibition highlights the social and cultural transformations of the era, revealing how Latvian modernists reflected on and interpreted the impressions and dynamics of a changing urban environment. The exposition brings together both canonical and lesser-known artworks, as well as poetic texts, original printed materials, photographs, and video works.
Exhibition supporters:
Co-operation partners:
Latvian National Museum of Literature and Music, Latvian National Museum of History, Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation, Aleksandrs Čaks Museum, Ģederts Eliass History and Art Museum of Jelgava, Latvian State Archives of Audiovisual Documents of the National Archives of Latvia, National Library of Latvia, Zuzāns Collection, Andris Kļaviņš, Valdis Villerušs, and other private collections, Deutsche Kinemathek (Berlin)
