Latvian Pavilion

Bruno Birmanis Bruno Birmanis (BB) is an artist, performance maker, and curator whose practice unfolds at the intersection of conceptual fashion, the body, and spatial imagination. His work approaches fashion not as a functional system but as a cultural language – capable of articulating ideas, emotions, and collective experience. Birmanis graduated from the Riga School of Applied Arts as a metal designer and jewellery artist. Since the mid-1980s, he has been actively engaged in alternative and experimental fashion, exhibiting and performing across Eastern and Western Europe. In the late 1980s, in collaboration with designer Uģis Rūķītis, he created Postbanalism Ball , a seminal multimedia performance work staged over thirty times across the Soviet Union. The project was widely recognised by international media as a defining expression of perestroika-era cultural transformation.