Nice Touch — Roberta Atraste

Curator Roberta Atraste is the winner of the Riga Photography Biennial’s Next 2025 programme award Emerging Curator!. Until June 6, her exhibition The Bureaucrat Who Secretly Reads Poetry, which explores bureaucracy and administrative processes in art, is on view at the experimental art space Pilot of the Art Academy of Latvia. In the Nice Touch section, Roberta shares an indispensable tool in her creative process—one that helps not only with gathering her thoughts but also with convenient archiving.

Nice Touch - Editorial, May 9, 2025

Above the mundane. An interview with Dārta Apsīte

Creative director Dārta Apsīte believes that we need the poetic and the beautiful as much as the practical. Under her leadership, a new phase in Riga’s communication with its residents began — her urban campaigns, both praised and criticised, aimed to foster a sense of belonging to Riga and Latvia, winning several awards. Currently, Dārta is taking on a new challenge and, together with like-minded women, has founded the design and communication studio Ausme.

Interviews - Paula Gāgane, April 30, 2025

Learning to draw with illustrator Viktorija Semjonova’s playful books

At the end of March, the British publishing house Hardie Grant London released the third book by Latvian illustrator Viktorija Semjonova. Her latest book, Drawing Nature: 100 Prompts, Projects and Playful Exercises, offers tasks and step-by-step guidance to make drawing accessible to everyone.

Stories - Editorial, April 28, 2025

Nice Touch — Evelīna Ozola

This week marks 12 years of FOLD covering Latvia’s creative industries. In the Nice Touch section, FOLD co-founder Evelīna Ozola, the chief designer of Riga, shares tools that help her manage the downsides of long hours at the computer.

Nice Touch - Editorial, April 25, 2025

Part Time gallery will host an exhibition by artist Pipe & Pallet

From April 24 to May 17, the art and design gallery Part Time will host the solo exhibition Kissing Branches by Vilnius-based Irish artist and illustrator Nathanaël Roman. Nathanaël, who works under the pseudonym Pipe & Pallet, combines illustration, sound, and movement in his work.

Stories - Editorial, April 23, 2025

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