2014

Boriss Berzins (1930-2002), a legend in Latvian art, painter and outstanding draughtsman of the late 20th century. A most colourful and forceful personality, whose influence was felt by all of his contemporaries, an artist whose presence in art processes in Latvia was a measure of creative freedom and creative spirit. The artist's talent and the wide scope of his approaches to form are revealed in the development of a symbiosis of means of expression and human interests.

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S1.E8 ∙ Kriss Salmanis

Fri, Oct 17, 2014

Kriss Salmanis is a conceptual artist whose works question identity, material properties, and the role of the artist as a creator-all with deceptive simplicity and straightforwardness. Salmanis uses his body as a material or a base in some of his works, which have included tattoos, shapes waxed into his chest hair, and alphabets made from the folds of his fingers. Salmanis also makes films, graphics, and photographs.

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S1.E9 ∙ Bruno Vasilevskis

Fri, Oct 31, 2014

Bruno Vasilevskis published a laconic "credo": in art, as in science, nothing is invented, one can only discover. Vasilevskis' discoveries began in the early 1960s as a self-evident denial of the slightly modernized socialist realism, but also the subjective expressionism and formalist effects of late modernism of the time.

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S1.E10 ∙ Maris Argalis

Fri, Jan 09, 2015

Maris Argalis worked with graphic art, book design and interior design. During 1970's, he searched for the new imagery techniques in graphic art. In 1977. Argalis started to work with drawing series "Models" where each graphically done model of reality could be perceived also as a geometrical sign or spatial object. Solo exhibition "Models" was first wider attempt to exhibit surrealistic works in context close to postmodernism.

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S1.E11 ∙ Katrina Neiburga

Fri, Jan 16, 2015

Katrina Neiburga (1978) is one of the most outstanding artists of Latvian contemporary art. She has received several significant awards (among them the Purvitis Prize - the premier Latvian national art award) and nominations, and has participated in exhibitions in Europe and elsewhere in the world. Katrina Neiburga's art is driven by a yearning for emotion, realness and the preservation of living memory.

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S1.E12 ∙ Dzemma Skulme

Fri, Feb 06, 2015

Dzemma Skulme graduated from the Academy of Arts (Riga) in 1949 and Repine Institute of Arts (Leningrad) in 1955. She subsequently took part in various exhibitions in Latvia, Switzerland, Italy, the United States (International Art Expo, Chicago, 1984) and Germany (International Art Fair, Hamburg, 1991). Her works are in the collections of the Presidents of France and Russia, and the Queen of Denmark.

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