Latvian National Museum of Art opens Viktor Timofeev's largest solo show
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Latvian National Museum of Art opens Viktor Timofeev's largest solo show
Viktor Timofeev, Non-Existent System. 2025. Watercolour on paper. Courtesy of the artist.



RIGA.- In cooperation with the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, from 22 March to 15 June 2025, the most extensive solo exhibition to date by the New York-based Latvian artist Viktor Timofeev, Other Passengers, is presented in the 4th floor exhibition halls of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, exploring themes of otherness, fragmented identities, readability, and incomprehensibility.

The exhibition brings together key motifs of Viktor Timofeev’s artistic practice, forming a unified multimedia installation that includes new paintings, drawings, video works, and a specially composed soundscape, created in collaboration with artist Miša Skalskis (FI/LT). All exposition’s elements intertwine autobiographical references with broader societal processes, developing a socio-critical metaphor in a scenographically structured environment. As visitors gradually move through the three exhibition spaces, a dramaturgy unfolds – revealing the coexistence and clash of two parallel realities – prompting an exploration of the boundaries between fact and fiction, objectivity and subjectivity.

Deeply connected to artist’s ongoing creative explorations, which include video games, worldmaking, and an interest in irrational systems, the exhibition works extend long-developed concepts while seeking new modes of expression. One of Viktor Timofeev’s key pieces, Alphabet Clock, which systematically and infinitely mutates letter forms, is reinterpreted within the exhibition, addressing issues of alienation, power, and societal norms.

Working between Riga and New York, Viktor Timofeev has long examined identity, language, and modes of communication, investigating their multilayered, shifting nature and the possibilities of integration or resistance within dominant systems. His work often explores governance structures and communication mechanisms, using different media to unfold ideas of the absurd. These serve as both a reaction to the turbulent, uncontrollable processes of contemporary reality and as an opportunity to construct an environment that subverts the norms of daily life with absurdity and play.

Viktor Timofeev (1984) holds a Master’s degree from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and a Bachelor’s degree from Hunter College in New York. He currently teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the United States. Artist’s recent solo exhibitions include: Pedagogical Games 1. Agents and Boundaries at the 427 Gallery in Riga (2023), DOG at Interstate Projects in New York (2021), God Objects at FUTURA/Karlin Studios in Prague (2020), Stairway to Melon at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga (2017), S.T.A.T.E. in the Drawing Room in London (2016). Recent group exhibitions include: New Address: Eden at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga (2024), Tallinn Photomonth at the Tallinn Art Hall (2024), Shallow Springs at Kohta Kunsthalle in Helsinki (2023), 14th Baltic Triennial at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius (2021), Post-Digital Intimacy at the National Gallery in Prague (2021), Unexpected Encounters at the ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (2019), A Barbarian in Paris at the Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris (2018), Somewhere in Between at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (2018).










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