The fourth AB is taking place at the Mūkusala Art Salon, a private, non-commercial gallery which also owns a remarkable collection of mostly Latvian art from different periods. Curators have chosen ten works from the collection to be displayed within the exhibition alongside the newly created works. Those ten works were allocated as comments on the practice of the ten participating critics, who were then each asked to write an extra article about their work.

Critics and Mūkusala Art Salon collection works in dialog:

Peter Talvistu (EST) = Kristaps Ģelzis. “Left Coast”. 2007
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Anna Salmane (LV) = Reinis Hofmanis. “Sale”. 2010
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Mari Kartau (EST) = Otto Zitmanis. Thus Love the Latvians. 2011
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Jānis Taurens (LV) = Reinholds Kasparsons. “The Young Chess Player”. 1936
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Elena Šmakova (EST) = Harijs Brants. “Candy Eater”. 2012 
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Maija Rudovska (LV) = Ēriks Apaļais. “Words Words”. 2011
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andreas w (EST) = Visvaldis Ziediņš. “Shoe with Beeswax Cells”. Undated
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Pauls Bankovskis (LV) = Kārlis Vītols. “The Rape of Eurobabe”. 2010

Tanel Rander (EST) = Kārlis Hūns. “Landscape with the Young Fisherman”. 1876
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Valts Miķelsons (LV) = Valdis Krēsliņš. “Sign of the Times”. 2010
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