From 6 October 2026 to 9 January 2027, the Ogre History and Art Museum will host the exhibition “Exhale. Space”, bringing together artists from different generations across Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to offer insight into some of the most significant currents in contemporary art today.
The exhibition’s title is grounded in themes of dialogue, empathy, space and time, with particular emphasis on materiality and spatial thinking. It serves as a deliberate—perhaps even slightly naive—invitation to reconsider the role of contemporary art and its ongoing search for meaning in today’s turbulently unsettling world. The exhibition is a collective reflection by the participating artists on vulnerability and healing, on seeing and finding refuge, and on the continuous responsibility we bear towards ourselves and the space we inhabit.
The exhibition also seeks to decentralise the region’s cultural landscape by bringing contemporary art into direct dialogue with audiences in Ogre.
Curator: Māris Grosbahs