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Intimate portraits of the greatest artists of our time. Anton Corbijn’s unmistakable visual language – direct, raw, and timeless – has shaped contemporary music culture for decades. This exhibition looks back on five decades of Corbijn’s creative career: through more than 150 works, it reveals an authentic and extraordinary world featuring Depeche Mode, David Bowie, U2, Patti Smith, and many others who have left their mark – and whose mark has been shaped by Corbijn.

Between 1983 and 2008, photographer Inta Ruka photographed people in her native Latvia, capturing their lives in rooms, courtyards, and streets where everyday life unfolds. She returned to the same individuals repeatedly, working slowly and allowing trust to develop over time. The resulting photographs are not merely documentary, but preserve places, relationships, and lived experience from which a sense of belonging emerges.

Exhibition brings together nearly 130 photographers whose work has shaped how we see, interpret, and perceive the world today – among them Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Avedon, Sarah Moon, and David LaChapelle. The exhibition moves between inner and outer worlds, exploring social tensions, identity, and the paradoxes of beauty and its representation. At the intersection of documentary and staged approaches, the personal meets the political, vulnerability meets resistance. Photography here is not merely a technique, but a way of making the world visible – revealing connections that might otherwise remain unseen.

Exhibition bringing the region’s rising stars of photography into the spotlight. In this international group exhibition, we encounter a new generation of photographers from the region who combine a strong documentary eye, a sensitive artistic vision, and a skill for staging playful scenes.