Ligatura 2010

From the 4th until the 7th of February 2010 takes place the Comics Culture Festival "Ligatura" in Poznan, Poland.

The festival consists of a comics market, workshops, lectures, movie screenings and a whole bunch of exhibitions. One of the highlights will be the exhibition with focus on female comics from Central Europe with the participation of Michaela Čopíková (Slovakia) Lela Geislerová (CZ) Lucie Lomova (CZ), Olga Wróbel (PL), Agata Nowicka "Endo" (PL), Ada Bucholc (PL), Sylwia Restecka (PL), Maja Veselinović (Serbia), Dunja Janković (HR), Ivanka Apostolova (Slovenia/Macedonia), Veronica Salomon (RO), Sybilla Koritareva (Bulgaria), Line Hoven (DE), Anke Feuchtenberger (DE), Anna Suchkova (RU), Edda Strobl (Austria) and our Latvian Ingrīda Pičukāne! Further highlights will be the exhibition "Regards from Serbia" by Aleksandar Zograf and the exhibition "Comics from behind the Iron Curtain".

Also not to be missed is the Latvian exhibition "Zagubiony w mieście - Lost in the City" with works by Anete Melece, Oskars Pavlovskis (made the flyer above!), Kaspars Grosevs, Maija Kurseva and Ingrida Picukane. This exhibition will be opened on Saturday the 6th of February at 15.00 in the Gallery "Starter".

Last Match in Lisbon opened

As Marcos from Chili Com Carne wrote us, our "the last match" exhibition was succesfully opened in the Galery Artside in Lisbon. Together with the exhibition opening was also the release of the Portuguese "Massive" Anthology. Below you can see some picture of the exhibition. As you can see it was extended with some other match related artworks. The pictures are a little bit blurry, but this might be due to the fact that the Latvian embassy brought Rigas Balsams...

The exhibition will continue until the 8th of February. So go and take a look if you happen to be in Lisbon.

O último fósforo em Lisboa

Our "last match exhibition" travels further in an extended version to Lisabon, Portugal. Now there are 165 artists from 38 countries who each made one little drawing about a last match on a little paper in the size of a matchbox, which is displayed on a wall full of matches. The full list of artists you can see on the thelastmatch.wordpress.com. All the artworks currently fit into 7 matchboxes

The exhibition will be opened at 16.30 on the 16th of January in the gallery Artside and will be opened until the 8th of February. Host of the exhibition is the Portuguese comics artist group CHILI COM CARNE and the exhibition will be opened with the presence of the Latvian Embassy of Portugal.

Here is a picture of the exhibition as displayed in Riga last autumn:

More information in Portuguese here