14–17 August SARKANDAUGAVA. GARDEN
From 14 to 17 August in Sarkandaugava at Building 5 of the Riga Psychiatry and Narcology Centre, the exposition "Garden" will be on display. The more-than-100-year-old building will be open to all interested visitors, who will be able to explore both the building's and hospital's historical environment and a specially prepared thematic exhibition. In the "Garden", visitors will be able to walk barefoot along a sensory path, while ivy blooms, lavender scents and a birch grove flourishes within the four walls of empty wards. In rooms dedicated to Vincent van Gogh, Zelda Fitzgerald and Pēteris Krastiņš, visitors can reflect on the fluid boundary between talent and illness, while other rooms invite contemplation of reason and madness, the real world and the parallel one, "normality" and "otherness", "us" and "them", oneself and one's "other self". Exposition-exhibition "Garden" at Riga Psychiatry and Narcology Centre Building 5: opening 14 August at 16:00. Exposition "Garden" open from 15 to 17 August, from 11:00–19:00. Guided tours of RPNC grounds led by Silva Bendrāte - every day at 15:00.
Exposition-exhibition "Garden" at Riga Psychiatry and Narcology Centre Building 5: opening 14 August at 16:00. Exposition "Garden" open from 15 to 17 August, from 11:00–19:00. Guided tours of RPNC grounds led by Silva Bendrāte - every day at 15:00.
Sarkandaugava - a densely layered environment of cultural history, contradictory facts and sensitive themes. Extraordinarily rewarding and delicately felt. The Sarkandaugava "Riga Psychiatry and Narcology Centre" is a significant yet until now little-studied part of Riga's cultural life - it is not only a unique historic building complex and medical institution, but also a place inextricably linked to cultural and artistic processes and personalities.
This autumn the institution, known as both "Aleksandrs Heights" and "Tvaika iela", will mark its 190th anniversary. That was one of the reasons why, in collaboration with landscape architect Ilze Rukšāns, the RPNC garden idea came to be. The Garden as a symbol of rebirth and hope; the Garden as a reflection of the world's eternal order, in which one season follows another; the Garden as a zone of contemplation, peace, recovery and nature's timeless beauty, open to both RPNC patients and staff and city residents.
From 14 to 17 August in Sarkandaugava at Building 5 of the Riga Psychiatry and Narcology Centre, the exposition "Garden" will be on display. The more-than-100-year-old building will be open to all interested visitors, who will be able to explore both the building's and hospital's historical environment and a specially prepared thematic exhibition. In the "Garden", visitors will be able to walk barefoot along a sensory path, while ivy blooms, lavender scents and a birch grove flourishes within the four walls of empty wards. In rooms dedicated to Vincent van Gogh, Zelda Fitzgerald and Pēteris Krastiņš, visitors can reflect on the fluid boundary between talent and illness, while other rooms invite contemplation of reason and madness, the real world and the parallel one, "normality" and "otherness", "us" and "them", oneself and one's "other self".
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