Kristians Brekte / Klprs
GODLESS
05.09. - 01.11.2026
Who are we, who do we belong to, and what happens when power begins to answer these questions in our place?
On September 5 at 6 PM, the MABOCA Gallery, Visuma Centrs 2, will open the exhibition “Godless” (Безбожники) — a series of twenty-eight works in which Kristians Brekte, together with bibliomaniac Klprs, takes on the faces of Soviet power and its ideological machinery.
Using archival photographic portraits, uniforms, medals, stiff gazes, and all the other trappings of the theatre of power, the artists use ink to tear away the official face, exposing what lies beneath it: a demon, a clown, and the mask of the cult of power.
Text by: Jānis Gailītis
Supported by: State Culture Capital Foundation, Labietis
Supported by: State Culture Capital Foundation, Labietis
The exhibition opening will feature musical performances by Toms Auniņš and TV Maskava & Rūdis Romanoss.
"GODLESS" opening
Photos by Līva Priedīte