The Art Museum Riga Bourse will present, Bernar Venet. Painting: From Rational to Virtual. 1966–2024, a retrospective of the work of pioneering French Conceptual artist Bernar Venet, from January 25 to April 27, 2025. Venet is one of the most charismatic figures on the contemporary art scene, making this exhibition an opportunity to explore not only the work of a unique artist but also his significant contributions to both twenty and twenty-first-century Conceptual art.
The exhibition – which has been created especially for Riga and the Great Hall of the Art Museum Riga Bourse, – is being produced by the culture and art portal Arterritory.com in collaboration with Bernar Venet Studio and the Latvian National Museum of Art. ‘Bernar Venet constantly challenges the limits of his ideas, possibilities, life, and art as a process. For him, making art means articulating and transforming while involving various disciplines – science, mathematics, music, architecture, physics and geometry, as well as what is happening in the media space,’ says Una Meistere, one of the project’s curators.
The exhibition will include a total of 28 paintings by the artist, presenting both recent works and examples from the early stages of Venet’s career. The central axis of this exhibition is mathematics, which, in Venet’s words, encompasses ‘the greatest abstraction ever created’.
