🥂 Join us for an evening of art and music as we celebrate the opening of Zuzeum’s summer exhibition season!
📅 Saturday, 30 May, 14:00–21:00
📍 Zuzeum Rooftop Terrace and Exhibition Halls
🎟️ Free admission to the event. Exhibition entry and guided tours with an exhibition ticket.
On the first Saturday of the exhibition MAMA: Mother Nature, Zuzeum exhibition halls and Rooftop terrace will stay open for a longer Saturday evening at the museum. This is an opportunity to experience the exhibition in a relaxed atmosphere, enjoy a DJ set by Riga Graduate School of Love, and special cocktails created for the exhibition at the Zuzeum bar. Throughout the evening, Weekend Artisan Pizza will be serving fresh and delicious pizzas on the rooftop terrace.
Programme:
🕒 14:00 guided tour of the exhibition MAMA: Mother Nature (in English)
🕒 16:00 guided tour of the exhibition MAMA: Mother Nature (in Latvian)
🧡 17:00–21:00 DJ set by Riga Graduate School of Love on the Rooftop Terrace (in case of bad weather, the programme will move indoors)
🍕 16:00–21:00 Weekend Artisan Pizza on the Zuzeum Rooftop Terrace
Riga Graduate School of Love – Elvi Soulsystems and Judzhen are two disc jockeys from very different walks of musical life, yet they have been friends for ages and played together in some formats or others for the same ages. It’s one of those partnerships that seems unlikely or even surprising from the outside but is completely natural and easy on the inside. One is smiling and waving too much, the other is thinking and conceptualising too much. One is short and bald, the other is tall and capped. One is a people person, the other is an introvert. One is from Riga, the other is from Viljaka. Both share a passion for music. Period. Everything – from crackly soul music to spiritual disco to rough footwork to dusty jungle. But they’re pretty much classic house players at heart. It always leads back to house music.
About the exhibition:
Zuzeum, in collaboration with the Heydar Aliyev Center and the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Latvia, will present MAMA: Mother Nature, an interdisciplinary travelling exhibition.
Curated by Emin Mammadov, the exhibition explores the intersections of ecology, identity, and collective memory, inviting viewers to consider the Earth as a living, powerful entity and a bearer of ancestral experience and the wisdom of renewal. The exhibition brings together works across a range of media, including installation, sculpture, video, and textile. At Zuzeum, the presentation is complemented by works by local and international artists from the Zuzāns Collection, creating a dialogue between the exhibition’s core and the local context.
The exhibition aims to highlight the long-standing relationship between the two countries and the importance of diplomatic cooperation, emphasizing culture as an essential bridge between societies and a platform for meaningful international dialogue. This exhibition will offer an opportunity to strengthen the collaborative ties established between Latvia and Azerbaijan, bringing shared values into focus and encouraging new initiatives in cultural exchange.
Since its premiere at the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, the exhibition has travelled across continents. It has been shown at the Bahrain Art Centre in Manama, the MAXXI Corner in Rome, and, most recently, at the Azerbaijan Pavilion at the 2025 London Design Biennale at Somerset House.
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