Updated
30.11.2025
Dreams, all grown up
Do you remember how, as a child, Christmas felt like the biggest event in the world? When Christmas letters were filled with gifts, and wishes were bigger than our homes and our possibilities. Some childhood dreams have been heard – and this year, wonderfully oversized things are happening on Rīdzenes Street.
Grown beyond its scale, bright like a childhood fantasy, and filled with iconic 2000s dream-gifts returning in mega size. And among it all – a festive market, presents, and flavours that fill the building and our hearts with the spirit of the season.
About the installation
“Dreams, All Grown Up” is an art installation created by the Latvian design collective Butterman. It is a creative interpretation of childhood dreams once written in Christmas letters and awaited with impatience. Some of those dreams remained on paper. Some were delayed. Some transformed. But they all lived on in imagination, memory, and hope.
The installation reminds us that dreams rarely come true at the exact moment we expect them to. Sometimes they arrive later. Sometimes they return in a form far bigger than we could have imagined. It is a visual fantasy of childhood wishes that have grown into a scale no one could have foreseen back then.
It is a reminder that even as we grow up, we carry the same childhood feeling with us — the belief, the anticipation, and the ability to see magic. And sometimes that magic appears precisely when we least expect it.
The installation is on view on Rīdzenes Street until January 4, 2026.
