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On November 21, in Vilnius, the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA), in partnership with the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, will open NSRD: Information About a Transformed Situation – an exhibition dedicated to the legendary Latvian avant-garde music and art group Workshop for the Restoration of Unfelt Feelings (NSRD) and their associates. This exhibition, on view at the Radvila Palace Museum of Art of the LNMA until February 23, 2025, is the broadest display of NSRD's work to be organized outside of Latvia in 35 years and will provide an opportunity for international audiences to be introduced to the recent history of Latvian underground art and its continued influence today. The exhibition has been curated by Māra Traumane (AAL) and Māra Žeikare (LCCA).

NSRD, as an interdisciplinary group, was active in the fields of music, literature, performance and video art. The group was founded in 1982 by Juris Boiko and Hardijs Lediņš, who were joined by their long-term associates Inguna Rubene (Černova) and Imants Žodžiks. However, their projects often involved a much wider circle of participants, and not all of the projects developed by the members of this wider group – which included actions, design, architecture proposals and discotheques – can be linked to NSRD directly.

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Juris Boiko (1954-2002) and Hardijs Lediņš (1955-2004) were the core members of the NSRD, which is best known as Latvian avant-garde, postmodern, experimental and underground music group active in 1980s. Their activities were widely multidisciplinary and they can not be considered as purely musicians since none of them had a professional musical education. Their creativity was manifested through variety of media – music, performance and action art, visual arts, poetry, samizdat, the introduction video art in Latvia etc. NSRD also made a significant contribution to the explanation of the theoretical aspects of art in the interpretation of the postmodernist movement, and developed the independent concept of “Approximate Art”. At the end of the 80s, NSRD got connected and performed with several artists and musicians living in West Germany, including Indulis Bilzēns, Micky Remann and Maximilian Lenz aka Westbam and others.

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