The Riga Art Nouveau Centre, an association of cultural institutions of the Riga City Council, invites Art Nouveau experts, researchers, architects and heritage specialists to participate in the international congress "Art Nouveau Diversity in Regional Context", to be held in Riga, Latvia, on 23-24 October 2025.

The congress will present studies analysing the manifestations of Art Nouveau in different European cities, highlighting the style's imagery, originality, and local specificities.

Riga is distinguished by its outstanding Art Nouveau architecture, art and culture and therefore is the perfect place to gather the most knowledgeable experts on the style and to discuss the diversity, preservation and understanding of this rich cultural heritage today.The conference will highlight Riga as an Art Nouveau metropolis in the European cultural space, focusing on the interpretations of the style in different regions.  Participants will have the opportunity to get acquainted with the latest findings of Latvian and foreign researchers.
Selected papers will be considered for publication in a book volume.

The Congress Programme Committee is calling for abstract submissions until 10 May by filling in the registration form available on this link: https://ej.uz/ArtNouveauDiversitiesinRegionalContext.

Notifications of the inclusion of abstracts in the conference programme will be sent by 24 May.

For the first time, the Petit Palais is unveiling the breadth and diversity of its collection of jewellery drawings, covering more than a century of design, from the second half of the 19th century to the mid-20th century.

The exhibition focuses on The Bride, Klimt's large painting, unfinished due to his unexpected and premature death in February 1918. The exhibition is contextualised with numerous pencil drawings in which Klimt had carefully worked out many of the painting's figures, and further studies found in the artist's last sketchbook. A large number of these studies are now being shown to the public, allowing direct comparison with the painting. As part of preparations for the exhibition, in-depth technical analyses including X-rays were conducted on the painting, the results of which will also be presented.