We are delighted to invite you to the opening of the RIXC Art Science Festival exhibition: Plants Intelligence on Thursday, October 16, 2025, at 18:00, at the Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Sporta iela 2.
The Plants Intelligence exhibition at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga is conceptually and thematically developed in cooperation with the SNSF-funded research project Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant (2022–2025), and features its outcomes.
The four-year research project explored the notion of intelligence and its intertwining with mind, consciousness, communication, memory, decision-making, learning, and subjectivity, asking whether such conceptualizations make sense of vegetal life and whether they promote new perspectives on interspecies and terrestrial relationships.
The exhibition also includes other works in which artists explore the intelligence of plants through scientific, artistic, indigenous, anthropological, imaginative, and speculative perspectives.
Artists: Uģis Albiņš (LV), Ursula Biemann (CH), Felipe Castelblanco (CO/CH), Karine Bonneval (FR), Gints Gabrāns, Arnis Rītups (LV), Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick (FR/US), Julia Mensch (AR/CH), Marc Lee (CH), Ayënan Quinchoa Juajibioy (CO), Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits (LV), Zheng Bo (CN).
Curators: Yvonne Volkart (CH), Raitis Smits (LV)
Opening: Thursday, October 16, 2025, 18:00
On view until: November 23, 2025
Venue: Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Sporta iela 2
The main RIXC Art Science Festival 2025 program will take place October 16–18, 2025, in Riga, featuring the opening of the Plants Intelligence exhibition at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre and a symposium at the Art Academy of Latvia, with artist talks, research presentations, film screenings, and live performances.
🔗More information:
https://festival2025.rixc.org
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Organizers
RIXC Centre for New Media Culture
Support and Partners
State Cultural Capital Foundation of Latvia, Riga City Council, Pro Helvetia, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Goethe-Institut Riga, French Institute in Latvia, Franco-German Cultural Fund, Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture, LG Electronics, Sonic Sensory Lab, Department of Cultural Affairs – Taipei City Government, Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan), REVERIE Trading Group, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Art Academy of Latvia, NAIA – Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art Association (Germany), Maajaam (Estonia), Isop (Denmark), SENT (Norway), Lorna (Iceland), Institutio Media (Lithuania), Photinus Studio (Ukraine), SLOLab (Canada)
Contacts
RIXC Center for New Media Culture / RIXC Gallery / Festival Information Center
Address: Lenču iela 2, Riga, LV-1010, Latvia
E-mail:
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