Greeting Liepāja citizens and visitors to the city on the road to Liepāja becoming European Capital of Culture in 2027, a mini art gallery has opened at Peldu Street 5. Liepāja is celebrating this year's European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024. Until the end of the year, it will showcase works by Estonian and Latvian artists that have been inspired by friendly neighbourly relations. The gallery is open every weekday from 8.30 to 17.00 free of charge.
The Tartu 2024 mini gallery began to take shape in the summer of 2023 in Riga, back then exhibiting one work of art every week to symbolically count down the time until Tartu and Southern Estonia would become European Capital of Culture in January this year. Gathering all 23 works of art, the Tartu 2024 gallery has headed to Liepāja to inspire Liepājans and visitors to the city on the road to Liepāja becoming European Capital of Culture in 2027.
The gallery is exhibiting small works of art in various genres created by representatives of creative fields in Estonia and Latvia including the graffiti artist Kiwie, fashion artist Kašers and Roberta Riezniece, director Andris Gauja, tattoo artist Carlos U Man and others. Liepāja 2027 is represented in this project by Uldis Rubezis.
"In creating the Tartu 2024 mini art gallery, we wanted to connect Latvia and Estonia in a special project, giving artists complete creative freedom with a request to include the number of weeks remaining until the opening of Tartu 2024. We were all pleasantly surprised by the result, which offered us the chance to discover a great deal about the culture of both countries. Our team has been preparing for the opening of Tartu 2024 for five years, therefore we are well aware how much effort and creativity this process demands, at the same time offering broad recognition and enriching the cultural life of the Baltic region. We are delighted for Liepāja, Southern Kurzeme and Kuldīga, which have been entrusted with this honour and want to inspire residents and visitors to look forward to the next European Capital of Culture," says Tartu 2024 Artistic Director Kati Torpa.
Inta Šoriņa, Board Chair of the foundation "Liepāja 2027" emphasises that, "In preparing to assume Liepāja's status as European Capital of Culture in three years' time, we have carefully followed the events of Tartu 2024 and taken part in events organised by our neighbours. Through cooperation and exchanging experiences, unique and rich content is taking shape which we are gradually introducing to culture lovers in Liepāja, all over Latvia and Europe.".
Tartu 2024 is this year's biggest event in Estonia – a quarter of the country's population are involved in organising it. The artistic concept and leitmotif for the European Capital of Culture's programme is "Arts of Survival". These are the knowledge, skills and values that will help you live better in the future, with a focus on sustainability, co-creation, local uniqueness, science and technologies. Over the course of the year more than 1000 events are taking place in the programme in Tartu and Southern Estonia.
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