Founded by Kim? Contemporary Art Centre – Riga’s first institution to have a continuous ongoing programme of contemporary art exhibitions – Riga Contemporary art fair will feature presentations from more than 35 international galleries. Set within Hanzas Perons, a historic railway warehouse now transformed into a striking cultural venue, the event will provide a platform for contemporary art, showcasing both emerging and established artists and institutions from the region and around the globe.

The invitation-only fair will feature galleries from the Baltics, the Nordic countries, the USA, Japan and beyond, presenting a diverse and global perspective on the regional contemporary art landscape.

Ant Łakomsk

Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with a Masters degree at the Faculty of Media Art in Wojciech Bąkowski’s Poetics Studio (2025). Finalist of the 46th Biennale of Painting Bielska Jesień. Lives and works in Warsaw. Though a painter, Łakomsk is not an artist confined by the medium. Rather than attempting to deconstruct it, she enjoys meandering across its platitudes. Clichés, metaphors, and their often-wry reinterpretations are her source of inspiration. Her visual language is simple and refers to intuitive, banal and non-rational emotions.

Tomek Tofilski

Graduate of Łódź Film School (2019). Lives and works in Warsaw. Tofilski’s artistic practice is grounded in observation, digital print and photo manipulation. Through capturing photographs in spontaneous situations and later juxtaposing such scenes, he creates narratives that explore the nature of images from an everyday, habitual point of view. He explores the concept of what is a universal, visual language also through experiments in display, mixing glossy prints stuck on stapled cardboard and wooden frames sealed in with varnish.

Piotrek Kowalski

Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with a diploma from Mirosław Bałka’s studio and annex in Wojciech Bąkowski’s studio (2022). Lives and works in Warsaw. Kowalski creates sculptures using either materials found at scrap yards and recycled in his studio or he constructs them from scratches of building materials. They reimagine objects from the intersection of city and nature, studying the influence of infrastructure on human behavior, such as jungle gyms, clocks, benches, tables, or signposts. In his works, post-construction elements provide sculptural material and a starting point for reflecting on the place of a man in late capitalism.

Photos by Bartek Zalewski.