
Spring 2022 residents selected
We are thankful to all the artists who shared their ideas with us and applied for our Spring 2022 residency programme! We received 44 applications from talented and dedicated artists coming from 23 countries. Since we can offer a limited number of residency places to artists the selection process was

OPEN CALL for Spring 2022 residency for photographers
Rucka Artist Residency is happy to announce an OPEN CALL for Spring 2022 residency for photographers Description of the artist residency programme The aim of the residency programme is to bring together photographers to create artworks that reflect on the photography heritage of Latvia, Cesis region in particular, and involve

Autumn 2021 residents selected
We are thankful to all the artists who shared their ideas with us and applied for our Autumn 2021 residency programme! We received 36 applications from talented and dedicated artists coming from 21 countries, working in different fields from photography to performance art. Since we can offer a limited number

Rucka Artist Residency announces OPEN CALL for Autumn 2021 residency
Rucka Artist Residency is happy to announce an OPEN CALL for Autumn 2021 residency Deadline for applications 20 May 2021. Description of the artist residency programme The aim of the residency programme is to bring together artists from different spheres (film and photography, multimedia, dance, theater, design, drawing, etc.) to

Open call for artist exchange of Latvian, Serbian and Montenegrin photographers
Photographers from Latvia, Montenegro and Serbia (5 from each country) will work together with the members of visually impaired community of Cesis, Latvia. Documenting their life in the city by creating photographs and soundscapes for an exhibition. Dates: 20 – 30 July 2021Location: Cesis, Latvia The artist exchange takes place

Spring 2021 residents selected
We are thankful to all the artists who shared their ideas with us and applied for our Spring 2021 residency programme! We received 58 applications from talented and dedicated artists coming from 29 countries, working in different fields from photography to performance art. Since we can offer a limited number

Rucka Artist Residency announces an OPEN CALL for residency spaces for Spring 2021
Rucka Artist Residency is happy to announce an OPEN CALL for free residency spaces for Spring 2021. Deadline for the residency applications is 10 January 2021. Description of the artist residency programme The aim of the residency programme is to bring together artists from different spheres (film and photography, multimedia,

Construction of installation “Pieturvieta RUCKA” begins in Rucka park
Rucka Art Foundation in cooperation with NOMAD architects is developing a multi-functional installation in Rucka Park, in Cesis as a part of the public arts programme KOPĀ implemented by the Latvian Centre of Contemporary Art, financed by the Ministry of Culture. The installation “Pieturvieta RUCKA” serves as a meeting point

Collaboration on artist exchange project Invisible Lives
Invisible Lives is a collaboration project implemented by Rucka Art Foundation (Latvia), Kulturanova (Serbia) and Art365 (Montenegro) within the framework of Creative Europe: Culture programme of the European Union. The project brings to light the stories behind the invisible lives of marginalized groups of society through transnational mobility of artists

Musical farewell to the summer of 2020 with IetVest
On Friday (28.08), we celebrated the end of summer 2020 with live music and jazz vibes. Latvian group IetVest – Inese Bērziņa, Eduards Lipāns and Emīls Gāgans offered listeners a variety of musical pieces from covers to original songs from Inese Bērziņa, supplementing each one with colorful instrumentation. The photographs

Autumn 2020 residents selected
We are thankful to all the artists who shared their ideas with us and applied for our Autumn 2020 residency program! We received applications from talented and dedicated artists, working in different fields from photography to performance art. Since we can offer a limited number of residency place to artists

Cesis Pluriversity held its first summer school “Geography, Design, Philosophy”
From 10 to 16 of August Cesis Pluriversity invited the summer school participants to re-think and evaluate stereotypes about learning and studying, in order to develop a plan for Cesis Pluriversity for the next study year and an offer for different lectures and assignments for the students of Cesis Pluriversity.

United ISSP and Baltic Analog Lab summer school “Natural phenomena” concluded
During the united ISSP and Baltic Analog Lab summer school 25 participants – artists from ten countries, including the Baltic states, Poland, UK, Germany and Italy, became acquainted with the surroundings of Ruck Manor and created work inspired by natural phenomena around them. The summer school program consisted of four

Rucka Artist Residency announces an OPEN CALL for residency spaces for Autumn 2020
Due to the global COVID-19 outbreak we decided to move our Spring residencies to Autumn. However, unfortunately, COVID-19 is still very present and possible future restrictions are unpredictable. Since some of the previously approved residents are not able to participate in the Autumn residencies, we are announcing an open call

Summer school of film and photography “Natural Phenomena”
The participants will be able to take part in any of the workshops and lectures offered, and will create their own work based on the techniques and creative impulses obtained in the process. Three of the four workshops will focus on analog film and photography; however, the participants will be

On 11 July, the first Sansusi evening was held in the courtyard of the Rucka Artist Residency
On the evening of the 11th of July the team of the alternative chamber music festival Sansusi invited the concert goers to engage in a creative provocation – enjoy a cultural dessert in four layers during a concert in the courtyard of Rucka Artist Residency. The evening began with a