Andris Eglītis: Circulation
Gallery +359 | 
October 16 – December 16, 2025 | Curated by Snejana Krasteva
🕒 Open: Thursday – Saturday | 16:00 – 19:00 | 13 A Galitchtsa str.
Circulation — a large-scale installation created specifically for the Water Tower in Sofia — is inspired by Eglītis’s recent expedition through Eastern Europe and his encounter with the dual sense of familiarity and otherness. Connected through water sources around which cultures have historically formed, the Balkan region today still seems caught between the post-socialist dichotomy of periphery and center.
Translating these experiences into matter, Eglītis spent weeks working in a studio in Lukovit, Northern Bulgaria, gathering and combining found and traditional materials — clay vessels among them — placing them in various “situations” where matter and natural forces coexist in fragile balance.
Andris Eglītis (b. 1981) lives and works in Riga and the open-air art space Savvaļa. Since 2008, he has realized over twenty solo exhibitions and participated in more than thirty significant group shows in Latvia, Belgium, Lithuania, the USA, India, Germany, and beyond. In 2024, the Latvian National Museum of Art organized his major solo exhibition Some Instances of Encounters between Imagination and Matter. In 2015, Eglītis represented Latvia at the 56th Venice Biennale (with Armpit, in collaboration with Katrīna Neiburga).
Curator's tour:
With Snejana Krusteva
October 31 | 17:00 h
November 1 | 17:00 h
The tour with Snezhana Krusteva offers an in-depth look into the concept and process behind Circulation.
🔗 Read more: www.plus359gallery.com
Andris Eglītis: Earthworks
Gallery Charta | October 17 – November 17, 2025 | Curated by Snejana Krasteva
Open: Tuesday & Friday | 15:00 – 19:00 | 12 Vrabcha str.
Alongside his monumental site-specific installation at Gallery +359, Eglītis presents a significant body of work from his “Earthworks” series at Charta Gallery in Sofia. In 2013, he received Latvia’s most prestigious visual arts award — the Purvītis Prize — for this ongoing series (2011–).
True to his philosophical and existential approach to painting that is rooted in a very intense observation of nature, this ongoing series of works is a repetitive exploration of materiality, executed literally with nature–covered with mud and earth, often with traces of being buried into the ground or left to the elements in the woods. A careful look at them – at their peculiar broad “strokes”, earthly tonality, and abstract nature – reveals the artist’s belief that this centuries-old art form can still be reinvented for a better understanding of our own liminal states of being, using that potentiality of things when painting, for example, has not yet become a painting. Eglītis also often experiments with the medium’s relationship to reality, using its slow nature to “document” installations or create real objects that, contrary to the attributed representative role of painting, imitates, on the contrary, the brushstrokes on the canvas.
Learn more: www.chartagallery.com |
Todor Rabadzhiyski: Grace in a Fragile Step
📍 Collect Gallery, Istanbul | 📅 October 10 – November 8, 2025
🕒 Open: Tuesday – Saturday | 14:30 – 19:00
Tomtom, Yeni Çarşı Cd. No:8, 34433 Beyoğlu / Istanbul
Following the opening of its new space in the heart of Istanbul, Collect Gallery continues its autumn season with “Grace in a Fragile Step” by Todor Rabadzhiyski — a project that draws the viewer into a delicate world of material transformation and the traces time leaves upon matter.
In parallel with the exhibition, the project Levietan: Traces of Time by Vidra Collective, in collaboration with Todor Rabadzhiyski, is presented at the 2nd Mediterranean Biennial in Tarsus, Turkey, from October 15 to November 30, 2025. The work expands the installation from Limnos Land Art 2025 into a new temporal dimension. Originally constructed within the Natura 2000 protected area on Limnos Island, the piece was conceived not as a monument, but as a structure exposed to the raw forces of the Mediterranean — one that listens to, absorbs, and is remade by them. Levietan appears, transforms, and disappears, leaving behind traces — images and video works that bear witness to its presence.
🔗 Read more: collect-gallery.com/2025/10/02/grace-in-a-fragile-step
Traces of Time
📍 2nd Mediterranean Biennial | Tarsus, Turkey | 📅 October 15 – November 30, 2025
In parallel with the exhibition, the project Levietan: Traces of Time by Vidra Collective, in collaboration with Todor Rabadzhiyski, is presented at the 2nd Mediterranean Biennial in Tarsus, Turkey, from October 15 to November 30, 2025. The work expands the installation from Limnos Land Art 2025 into a new temporal dimension. Originally constructed within the Natura 2000 protected area on Limnos Island, the piece was conceived not as a monument, but as a structure exposed to the raw forces of the Mediterranean — one that listens to, absorbs, and is remade by them. Levietan appears, transforms, and disappears, leaving behind traces — images and video works that bear witness to its presence.
Next at our new venue in Istanbul
📍 Collect Gallery | 🗓️ November 12 – December 12, 2025
The upcoming exhibition will feature two young Turkish artists – Buket Ada Kılıç & Selma Koç, each with a distinctive contemporary art signature. Curated by Deha Çun. Join us for the opening on November 12 at 18:00, at Tomtom, Yeni Çarşı Cd. No:8, 34433 Beyoğlu / Istanbul.
Upcoming in the heart of sofia
📍 Charta Gallery | 🗓️ November 20 – December 20, 2025
Following Andris Eglītis’s exhibition, Charta Gallery will present a new solo project by Vito Valentinov. Join us for the opening on November 20 at 18:00, at 12 Vrubcha Street, Sofia.
Coming Next at the Tower
📍 Gallery +359 | 🗓️ December 22, 2025 – March 20, 2026
To close the year, Gallery +359 will present a project by Ivaylo Avramov, immersing us in a profound architectural analysis of the Water Tower itself. The exhibition will offer both an intellectual and spatial experience, in which the tower’s structure unfolds as a living system of traces, volumes, and perspectives — a body that breathes, preserves, and reflects time — a living organism where architecture becomes an experience.