Viktor Timofeev. Other Passengers

From 22 March 2025, the Latvian National Museum of Art will host Viktor Timofeevs' solo exhibition Other Passengers in the exhibition halls on the fourth floor. This exhibition will combine the most important motifs of the artist's creative practice – inner worlds, language, bureaucracy, the crowd, and the individual. The newly created works will reflect on the world as the coexistence and collision of two parallel and opposing realities, interwoven by a diverse and branching web of relationships.

Timofeev has long focused on themes in his work that, from both his personal experiences and the perspectives of cultural and societal processes, reflect on the forms of governance and communication maintained by power and political systems, as well as individual experiences, whether striving to integrate, follow, and adhere to these systems or, conversely, rebel against them. This includes questions of identity, language, and communication that arise from human migration and life between different countries, nationalities, territories, and borders, but it can also be tied to specific places and their migration histories.

Timofeev’s ideas unfold in fantastical environments, combining drawings, paintings, video and installations. The works, often autobiographical, point to the real world and the cognitive dissonance that arises when inner and outer worlds meet, as shared value systems and symbols—frequently cross-cultural—intersect and collide.

The exhibition is produced by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) in collaboration with the Latvian National Museum of Art.