Riga Art Nouveau district hosts exhibition from 16 October
Published on 10/31/2026 at 08:05 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael MĂĽller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWSExhibition and museum setting
- The Riga Art Nouveau Centre Museum presents Sentimental Values from 16 October 2026.
- Inese Brants and Irina Vorkale connect porcelain, painting and family craft traditions with Riga architecture.
- The museum occupies Konstantins Peksens’s 1903 house at Alberta Street 12.
- Riga’s Historic Centre entered the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997.
Riga Art Nouveau district (Klusais centrs) hosts the exhibition Sentimental Values. Brants and Vorkale at the Riga Art Nouveau Centre Museum from 16 October to 6 December 2026. The Riga exhibition brings porcelain and fine art into one of Latvia’s best-known architectural areas.
Sentimental Values runs at Alberta Street 12
The exhibition presents work by porcelain artist Inese Brants and painter Irina Vorkale. Brants uses blue and red embroidery motifs on coffee and tea sets, plates and jugs, with coloured pigments fused into the porcelain glaze.
Vorkale’s paintings examine women, fashion, sewing and handicraft traditions. A black-lacquered Singer sewing machine inherited from her grandmother Elza Kundzina is identified as an important source of inspiration. The exhibition is presented as a meeting of two artistic languages shaped by family values and Art Nouveau heritage.
The Riga Investment and Tourism Agency lists the exhibition at the Riga Art Nouveau Museum from 16 October to 6 December 2026, at Alberta Street 12. The exhibition listing for 16 October gives the dates and venue.
Porcelain and painting meet Riga architecture
The museum occupies a private house built in 1903 for architect Konstantins Peksens. Its rooms preserve an early twentieth-century interior and hold objects connected with Art Nouveau life and design.
The exhibition’s themes relate directly to the district outside the museum. Embroidery, clothing, domestic objects and craft traditions are viewed inside a neighbourhood whose façades were developed during Riga’s early twentieth-century expansion.
Alberta Street was built between 1901 and 1908 and contains eight buildings recognised as monuments of national significance. The museum’s own history and the street’s architecture therefore place the exhibition within the period and setting that inform its subject. The museum’s history and collection describe the 1903 building and its Art Nouveau remit.
Riga’s World Heritage setting adds historical context
Riga’s Historic Centre has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1997. UNESCO highlights the city’s nineteenth-century urban growth and the concentration of Art Nouveau buildings in the former suburbs around the historic core.
The district is mainly concentrated in the Quiet Centre, where entire streets display ornate façades from the early 1900s. A visit to Sentimental Values can therefore combine an indoor exhibition with an outdoor architectural route through Alberta Street and nearby streets.
The museum is run within Riga’s cultural institutions network, which describes its purpose as preserving and promoting the city’s museum heritage. Its exhibition programme links temporary displays with the restored rooms and collections of the Art Nouveau Centre. The Riga cultural institutions listing confirms the exhibition period and participating artists.
Visiting Riga Art Nouveau district: what travellers from Western Europe should know
- Sentimental Values is on view from 16 October to 6 December 2026 at the Riga Art Nouveau Centre Museum, Alberta Street 12.
- The exhibition is an indoor museum visit, while the surrounding district remains an urban area of streets and historic façades to explore outside.
- The museum stands in Riga’s Quiet Centre, about a 10- to 15-minute walk from the Old Town, with tram and bus routes stopping nearby.
- The visit combines paved city streets with museum rooms in the 1903 house designed by Konstantins Peksens.
- Latvian is Latvia’s official language and the national currency is the euro.
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Frequently asked questions about Riga Art Nouveau district
When does Sentimental Values take place at Riga Art Nouveau district?
The exhibition is on view from 16 October to 6 December 2026 at the Riga Art Nouveau Centre Museum on Alberta Street.
What is Riga Art Nouveau district?
It is Riga’s Quiet Centre, an urban area known for its concentration of early twentieth-century Art Nouveau architecture.
Where is Riga Art Nouveau district and how do you get there?
The district is near the Old Town and can be reached on foot, by bicycle or by public transport, with tram and bus routes nearby.
