PERFORMING LANDSCAPES NORDIC/BALTIC

PERFORMING LANDSCAPES FESTIVAL

Copenhagen, May 2026

Performing Landscapes was first held in Copenhagen in 2023 by Metropolis – Copenhagen International Theatre and is now an annual festival. From 2025, the festival has expanded with a national programme. Performing Landscapes brings together 40 artists working with nature, landscape, and ecology at a time when the climate and biodiversity crises call for new ways of being in the world. Through art, they explore how to open up new experiences of – and perspectives on – how we can live more sustainably and in balanced coexistence with our surroundings. In Copenhagen, Refshaleøen forms the setting for the works. With urban development on the horizon, the art helps to make the site’s unique qualities and possibilities tangible to the senses. After 30 years of slow and careful site maturation, architects’ visions for life here are being launched. The artists do not draw more lines, but instead respond by opening our senses and minds.

PUBLIC PROGRAMME FOR EXHIBITION "GHOSTS OF THE INVISIBLE PRESENT"

Riga, April 2026

Our activities brought together artists, researchers, and curious minds to explore the relationships between ecology, history, and solidarity. In the lecture-workshop "Which mushroom are you?" by Jana Kukaine and Anne Sauka, participants engaged with the "turn to mushrooms" in contemporary social sciences and humanities – discovering their personal mushroom type through a test built on speculative fabulation, posthumanism, and environmental humanities. This spirit of inquiry continued in our online seminar series Art and Decolonial Solidarity, moderated by Ieva Astahovska and Margareta Tali, with participants Asel Kadyrkhanova, Darya Tsymbalyuk, Kristina Norman, Epp Annus, and Heidi Ballet. Together they brought together perspectives from Ukraine, the Baltics, and Central Asia to examine how art can respond to climate change, environmental crisis, and ecological disaster rooted in colonial histories – exploring decolonial solidarity, more-than-human perspectives, and the connections between local and global struggles for sustainability.

PUBLIC PROGRAMME FOR EXHIBITION "GHOSTS OF THE INVISIBLE PRESENT"

Narva, May 2026

Our activities brought together artists, researchers, and curious minds to explore the relationships between ecology, history, and solidarity. In the lecture-workshop "Which mushroom are you?" by Jana Kukaine and Anne Sauka, participants engaged with the "turn to mushrooms" in contemporary social sciences and humanities – discovering their personal mushroom type through a test built on speculative fabulation, posthumanism, and environmental humanities. This spirit of inquiry continued in our online seminar series Art and Decolonial Solidarity, moderated by Ieva Astahovska and Margareta Tali, with participants Asel Kadyrkhanova, Darya Tsymbalyuk, Kristina Norman, Epp Annus, and Heidi Ballet. Together they brought together perspectives from Ukraine, the Baltics, and Central Asia to examine how art can respond to climate change, environmental crisis, and ecological disaster rooted in colonial histories – exploring decolonial solidarity, more-than-human perspectives, and the connections between local and global struggles for sustainability.