Low gallery

Low gallery LOW is an independent art space connecting local artists and audiences with the Baltic region and 🌏

LOW has become an important part of the Latvian cultural landscape and works hard to bridge local and international scenes, providing a safe space to connect and collaborate, and in doing so, dissecting, critiquing and celebrating both high and LOW culture, the soviet legacy, and our extreme present. Founded in 2017 by artist Maija Kurševa, LOW had its original premises in a basement floor at 115

Ģertrūdes street, Riga, now DOM Gallery. In 2020, LOW continued to operate under the direction of artists Ieva Kraule-Kūna, Elīna Vītola and Amanda Ziemele, who pursued a diverse program of solo and group exhibitions, a podcast series (LOWcasts), seasonal zine, and commissioned site-specific artistic productions for its second premises in Lāčplēša 78A (now closed) in late 2020. Directed by David Ashley Kerr since 2022, LOW continues promoting emerging Latvian talent here and abroad through the combination of local and international cultural producers. As per its original manifesto, LOW continues to view the local art scene in a wider global context, without losing an understanding of local specificities. LOW is a non-profit art initiative generously supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation (SCCF) and gladly accepts donations to continue to support Latvian arts workers at home and abroad.

„Feedback“ by Kaspars Groševs runs till April 11 at Medūza Vilnius 🇱🇹 Kaspars Groševs’ solo show „Feedback“ treats time ...
08/04/2026

„Feedback“ by Kaspars Groševs runs till April 11 at Medūza Vilnius 🇱🇹

Kaspars Groševs’ solo show „Feedback“ treats time as a signal looping back on itself. The works in the show carry the charge of something belated and anticipatory at once. Working with experimental electronic music since the late 1990s, Kaspars Groševs (1983) is an artist, musician and curator we know pretty damn well based in our beloved Rīga. 

Last days to see this magic solo show by

„Feedback“ by Kaspars Groševs is a LOW project curated by Žanete Liekīte in collaboration with Medūza Vilnius 🇱🇹 .fyi

Supported by State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia and Lithuanian Council for Culture.

Thanks y'all 🌛

LOW

Paldies Echo Gone Wrong 🎉
08/11/2024

Paldies Echo Gone Wrong 🎉

LOW has launched a new web platform, showcasing its entire archive since the gallery and project space was founded in central Riga in 2017. As an independent art platform based in Riga, LOW connects local artists and audiences with the Baltic region and beyond through a diverse program of events, ta...

22/10/2024

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Sveiki! Šodien esam LOW key satraukti paziņot, ka LOW ir jauna online platforma @ low.gallery ✨

Šī platforma nodrošina, ka visi mākslinieki un mākslas darbinieki, kas ir bijuši (un būs) saistīti ar LOW, var svinēt, reflektēt un iegūt apliecinājumu savai darbībai, un Rīgas dinamiskajai mākslas ainai ir būtisks ieraksts par sevi. Tas ir svarīgi laikā, kad fiziskās galeriju telpas nāk un iet, un LOW ar saviem LOW projektiem pārorientējas uz īslaicīgākiem, bet elastīgākiem modeļiem. Paldies pašreizējiem un bijušajiem LOW glabātājiem par pacietību un palīdzību jaunās platformas izveidošanas procesā, kas tika rūpīgi izstrādāta un attīstīta pāri hemisfērām. Man personīgi šī ir bijusi liela privilēģija un laime strādāt ar arhīva materiāliem, redzēt iespaidīgus darbus un priecīgas sejas LOW izstādēs. 🐨

LOW arhīvs joprojām ir procesā un tiek papildināts, tāpēc būsim pateicīgi par atsauksmēm un ieteikumiem, jūsu senākiem projektiem ar LOW, kas ietver hipersaites, tekstus latviešu un angļu valodā, kā arī foto dokumentāciju un to autorus. Lūdzu, rakstiet mums, būsim priecīgi dzirdēt no jums! 

LOW is life. 

Deivids (LOW glabātājs)

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Oh hi! We are LOW key excited to finally announce that LOW has its new web platform online @ low.gallery 🥳

This shiny new platform ensures all of the artists and arts workers who have been (and will be) involved with LOW can celebrate, reflect on, and have evidence of their activities, and the vibrant Riga art scene has a crucial record of itself. This is especially important when physical gallery spaces come and go, and LOW moves to more ephemeral yet flexible models through LOW projects. Thank you current and former LOW custodians for help while building this site, which has been designed & developed with care across hemispheres. It has personally been such a privilege and joy to see the incredible work and happy faces at exhibitions from the archive. 🐨

The archive is still being filled, so any feedback and suggestions or your historical projects with LOW are welcome, including hyperlinks, LV and EN texts, as well as documentation and credits. Please write to us, we would love to hear from you!

David (LOW custodian)

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Thursday 15:00 - 18:00
Friday 15:00 - 18:00
Saturday 14:00 - 17:00

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A new decade for the gallery LOW is bringing a new team of artists – Ieva Kraule-Kūna, Elīna Vītola and Amanda Ziemele (from now on known as LOWERS) – to run it with a fresh perspective on what an underground non-commercial artist-run space located somewhere in the periphery of Eastern Europe might be.

LOWERS' main focus for the year 2020 is to explore different strategies of artistic expression in a place where some are still yearning for Soviet times, others seeking fulfilment in Kardashianesque lifestyle while some marginalised groups are trying to keep socioeconomic consequences of the contemporary living at bay.

LOWERS will try to answer what does it mean to practice art at a time when growing awareness of global geopolitical, gender and racial issues bring to the questioning such elitist organisations as museums, auction houses and galleries. Is there a way to retain artistic autonomy and keep a clear conscience all while still having a full-time artistic practice and roof over one's s head? Selling out or selling one's soul to the devil?