Robert Fleitz’s concert

On Wednesday, August 27th at 19:00 pianist Robert Fleitz will perform a unique concert responding to Liga Spunde’s “Field of Exercises,” the latest exhibition at TUR, Contemporary Space for Art.

TUR is delighted to announce Artist Talk Concert XVIII for which pianist Robert Fleitz will present a program responding to Līga Spunde’s exhibition “Field of Exercises.” Much like the exhibition itself, the concert offers a luminous spectrum of color and feeling, vulnerable in its search for meaning within a frantic world. It will take place at TUR, within the exhibition and is free to attend.

The concert program unfolds in two halves. The first gathers short works that search for meaning through childlike wonder, with Yuri Umemoto’s Mass for piano and electronics at its core, a piece that yearns for spirituality amid hyperconsumerist culture. Around it are works touched with romanticism, reinventing fragments of the past to find new beauty. The second half turns toward simplicity as a site of recovery, rejecting overload and virtuosity in favor of elemental musical materials. Here, the music echoes Spunde’s smaller sculptures: fragile presences that remind us that humanity can be found in the smallest details, waiting to be noticed. In addition to Umemoto, the program also features works rarely (or never) heard in Latvia before by Claude Debussy, Niki Main, Jasna Veličković, Angélica Negrón and Andrew Toovey.

Līga Spunde’s exhibition, which opened last Wednesday, transforms the space of TUR into a field of exercises: an abstract training ground where sculptural objects invite the visitor to rehearse human virtues. These large-scale 3D-printed forms take the shape of gestures – an embrace, interlocked hands, a stance of confidence – that evoke a sense of strength, empathy, tenderness, and care. They are not props for literal exercise, but propositions for the imagination: reminders of the irreducible movements that define our shared humanity. This conceptual field emerges against the backdrop of a world that feels increasingly ungovernable, shaped by authoritarian politics, ecological collapse, and wars waged with impunity. Spunde counters with a precise and quietly radical proposal: to rehearse belief in simple gestures, to return to the body as a site of resilience. The works do not offer solutions, but they open a space for rehearsal, for practicing the possibility of repair. They encourage a moment of self-recognition, a pause to reflect on the gestures that sustain our humanity. Scattered around the field of exercises are several smaller, almost imperceptible sculptures that invite a different discipline, to walk slowly with intention and engagement. To practice mindfulness as a human discipline.

The Artist Talk Concert is TUR’s most distinctive interdisciplinary format, always pairing musicians with exhibiting artists. Unlike traditional artist talks, the exchange happens before the audience arrives and is shared only between the artist, musician, and sometimes curator. From this dialogue and reflection emerges a concert rather than a conversation, positioning the exhibition as a generative site of research where music and visual art intersect to create new forms of knowledge and experience. For TUR, the series embodies its mission: to bring fresh perspectives, to open new encounters across disciplines, and to welcome diverse audiences into the space of contemporary art.

The concert is free to attend thanks to the generous support of the State Culture Capital Foundation and Education, Culture, and Sports Department of Riga City Council. 

Please reserve your place at [email protected]