Exhibition "Today. Liepaja Art School 100"

The exhibition introduces the Liepāja Music, Art and Design High School, celebrating the centenary of the Liepaja Art School.

This year marks exactly one hundred years since the Liepaja Art School was founded in 1926 and ten years since it merged with the Emilis Melngailis Liepaja Music High School. The school was the first educational institution in Latvia that offered secondary education along with a professional artist's diploma.

Covering the period from the end of the 1970s to the present day, the exhibition combines the works of both school students and graduates, including well-known authors in the Latvian art scene, and becomes a meeting place for generations, looking at what is happening around them through the eyes of the present. Artists in a wide variety of media address the contradictions of events with sensitivity, inviting a discussion about values.

At the exhibition, visitors will be able not only to observe, but also to participate. In a special interactive installation - just like a master's workshop - everyone will have the opportunity to assume the role of a designer or architect and create their own spatial story.