(In)visible dreams and streams. Nordic-Baltic Contemporary Art Exhibition

The idea to create this exhibition was born in connection with the 25th anniversary of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Offices in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, celebrated in 2016. The project aims to highlight the recent and current processes of the cooperation among the artists and culture operators in the Nordic-Baltic region. All three offices serve as local culture points and collaboration partners to the Nordic Culture Point in making the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture visible in their countries, as well as advising the potential applicants. Conceptually the exhibition is devoted to and based on the module of Mobility Funding which is part of the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture and which has been operating in Baltic countries since 2009 and in the Nordic countries since 2007. 

The Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture supports around 300 individuals every year, providing them an opportunity to travel between Nordic/Baltic countries in order to exchange ideas, engage in research processes, project production and artistic activities, build new networks or maintain the existing ones. 

The exhibition “(In)visible dreams and streams” presents 22 artists and art producers, who have benefited from the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture. The intention of the exhibition curator Maija Rudovska has been both to show the growth of the ideas, their transformations and developments as well as to create a space for possible reenactment, giving an opportunity to look back, to resurrect and reflect on the projects.