Roundabout Baltic

The objects presented in the exhibition come from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Germany – however, they will not be presented by country, but mixed together, arranged according to the themes outlined by the curator, because of the similarities and common features they share. Sometimes it will be a form, sometimes a material or color scheme, sometimes a persistently recurring motif, as if the designers, each in their own way, were solving the same task.

This way of authorial presentation makes it possible to discover, difficult to define, but nevertheless clear connectivity with the Baltic landscape, common formal borrowings and inspirations, which often were not a conscious effort of their creators. Through this deliberate display, design analogies present in the region will be shown, despite all the differences that divide us. Designers from Scandinavian, Nordic, Baltic, Slavic and Germanic countries look at the same Baltic Sea, which has become for them a kind of common language that makes less and more unfamiliar neighbors close to each other.