The forum will bring together creators of cultural life in Kurzeme – state and municipal employees working in the cultural sector, representatives of the private and NGO sectors, artists and art process organizers, culture students and other interested parties, as well as anyone who values the development of culture.
Kristaps Priede works in painting, sculpture, and environmental art, which includes Land Art and Site-specific Art, where artworks are created for a particular location. In addition, Kristaps also engages in performance and photography.
Organized by the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, the South Kurzeme Festival “Rimbenieks” filled the region with vibrant concerts throughout August, culminating on Sunday, August 17, in a packed Grobiņa Lutheran Church.
On 16 August 2025, Liepāja 2027 youth filled the Mad Liepāja festival with their energy, creativity, and ideas.
At the beginning of August, the Liepāja 2027 team visited České Budějovice – Budweis – which will be the European Capital of Culture in 2028.
The CreArt network invites applications for an artist residency in Regensburg, Germany from 20 October to 14 December 2025.
Applications for the project competition will be open for two weeks – from 11 August until midnight on 25 August. Submitted projects will be evaluated by a jury, with results to be announced on 15 September.
On 9 August, a new chapter was added to Grobiņa’s landscape, as the environmental art trail “Face to Face with Natural”, created by the Liepāja 2027 Foundation, opened to the public along the banks of the Ālande River. Winding across 1.5 kilometres, this trail brings together three newly commissioned contemporary artworks by Ieva Viese, Krista Dintere, and Rihards Vītols, offering a sensory and reflective journey through time, sound, and speculative futures.
f|x|r gallery of the House of Arts Veszprém is inviting applications of unique, 20-second looped moving images to be projected in a four-walled, immersive exhibition space. The submission deadline is September 10, 2025.
he Cultural Department of the City of Chemnitz is offering a scholarship for a literary producer’s residency from April 1, 2026. The scholarship will enable people to engage more intensively with the past and present of life in the city of Chemnitz and the region. The application deadline is September 14.