The exhibition “Decolonial Ecologies” at Riga Art Space (1 November 2022 – 15 January 2023) aims to explore the complex entanglements of postcolonial and postsocialist imprints in contemporary society and culture in the Baltics and its neighbouring regions through the prism of environmental history and environmental changes, and the current ecological crisis.

In these brief video interviews, curator Ieva Astahovska, architects Arnita Melzoba and Kārlis Melzobs (Architecture Studio GAISS) and artists Linda Boļšakova, Maija Demitere, Vika Eksta, Inga Erdmane, Quinsy Gario, Maria Kapajeva, Diana Lelonek, Haralds Matulis, Francisco Martinez, Anna Shkodenko, Darja Popolitova, Viktor Gurov, Līga Spunde, Rasa Šmite & Raitis Šmits, Aurelija Maknytė, Olia Mykhailiuk talk about the stories behind their works.

Videographer: Toms Taukulis 

Curator Ieva Astahovska  

Exhibition Architects—Arnita Melzoba & Kārlis Melzobs (Architecture Studio GAISS)

The artist collective Family Connection—Marronage

Vika Eksta & Anna Griķe—Alotment Garden No. 849

Līga Spunde—Lilies of the Valley / Tribute to a Tired Girl

Maria Kapajeva—the enforced memory & Chronicles


Aurelija Maknyte—Partisan of Landscaping


Haralds Matulis—Journey to Chernivtsi


Diana Lelonek—Storks, a Sacred Bird


Olia Mykhailiuk—rememberMINT


Inga Edmane—Unless I Move, The Earth Becomes Flatter


Francisco Martinez, Viktor Gurov, Darja Popolitova, Anna Shkodenko—Keeping Things in the Dark 


Linda Boļšakova—Staburadze Corallia


Maija Demitere—Tomato-Potato Calculator

Rasa Šmite un Raitis Šmits—Deep Sensing