Launch of Ingrīda Pičukāne's comic book "Feminae Explorarum"
Opening hours
27.05
T: 18-21
Location
Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Latvia, Marijas iela 13 k-3 (Berga Bazārs), Rīga
Launch of Ingrīda Pičukāne's comic book Feminae Explorarum 27.05.2025, 18:00, Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Latvia, Marijas iela 13 k-3 (Berga Bazārs), Riga.
Feminae Explorarum is a selection of comics, often set in vibrant forest worlds, inhabited by women engaged in quiet, personal acts of exploration. Blending myth and realism, the stories embrace states like menstruation, drunkenness, and solitude as meaningful experiences rather than trivialities. The forests are neither untouched nor idealized—they are tangled spaces of nature and human debris, magical and reflective. Ingrīda Pičukāne challenges expectations of femininity, offering a richly subjective and feminist perspective on what it means to truly observe and exist.
Ingrīda Pičukāne graduated from Janis Rozentāls Art School, Art Academy of Latvia (Visual Communication Department) and Estonian Academy of Art (Animation Department). She has been active in the field of comics for over 15 years and is a regular contributor to the Baltic comics magazine kuš!. In 2016, the artist released her first comic book, Three Sisters, which received positive reviews from comic critics around the world. In 2023, the comic book Zaļais Ceļojums (Green Journey) was published, created in collaboration with artist Vivianna Maria Stanislavska. This year, Pičukāne's third book, Feminae Explorarum, was published, and this launch event is dedicated to its release.
Supported by SCCF, VV Foundation, Arctic Paper, Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Latvia
About the space
The Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Latvia works with various cooperation projects and support programs. Openness to new thoughts, ideas and partnerships is one of the fundamental principles of Nordic co-operation. (In this case, the book was produced in collaboration with Arctic Paper, and some of the comics have been produced in collaboration with, for example, Estonia and Finland, which is why the launch is taking place here.)
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