Some Instances of Encounters between Imagination and Matter
Index in Stockholm 6 March 2026, 6 pm.
Welcome to an evening, a book launch, a conversation surrounded by paintings with artist Andris Eglītis, poet and performance artist Agnese Krivade and curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist. Eglītis will be bringing new work straight from the studio, paintings made in subzero temperatures in Savvaļa in the Latvian countryside.
The book Some Instances of Encounters between Imagination and Matter is published by Arvinuis+Orfeus and is a case study of “Exhibition” with Eglītis at the Latvian National Museum of Art in 2024. Collecting documentation by photographer Reinis Hofmanis and Eglītis, essays by Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Santa Hirša, and an interview with artist by poet and performance artist Agnese Krivade. “Exhibition” was not only Eglītis’ largest solo exhibition to date but also an attempt to bend, disturb, and rewrite what a museum and an exhibition can be. It reached outward — from the solitary figure of “the artist” toward a chorus of other voices, beings, and materials. ”Exhibition” unfolded in dialogue with works by friends and collaborators, many linked to Savvaļa, a collective project founded six years ago in his open-air studio in Drusti. Since then, Savvaļa has influenced the contemporary art landscape of the Baltics.”Exhibition” reimagines the post-socialist in dialogue with the post-humanist — a radical form of landscape painting where the landscape itself becomes the painter, and companionship an artistic method.
The event takes place inside Index presentation filmmaker Harun Farocki, and perhaps Eglītis and Farocki can be connected through their shared attention to how landscapes are produced, mediated, and read rather than simply observed.
With support from the Latvian embassy in Sweden.
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing AB
Olivecronas Väg 4
113 61 Stockholm
Sweden
