#contemporary Latvian art

[theaskew]

Andris Eglītis (Latvian b. 1981), Dažas iztēles un matērijas tikšanās (Some encounters of imagination and matter), 2021. Oil on canvas,  74 x 64 cm.

[morbidaughter]

Julia Soboleva (Latvian, born 1990)

[marejadilla]

Jana Brike, for her Solo exhibition "Children of the Sun" opening on November 23 at @beinartgallery, Australia.   Jana Brike was born in year 1980 in Riga, Latvia.

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Edgars Vinters (Latvian, 1919 – 2014) Roses, c. 2008, cardboard, oil, 87x67 cm

[oncanvas]

Christmas Tree, Hyman Bloom, 1983

Oil on canvas 60 ¼ x 46 in. (153.03 x 116.84 cm)

[internationalemeteorologie]

Laima Laurina

Sunset in the Mountains Vase #1

[jareckiworld]

Ilona Romule — Straitjacket (ceramic sculpture; porcelain fired at gas reduction 1350˚C, 2018)

[laimibas-tale]

Those who live in Kobe, Japan have an excellent opportunity to see an amazing exhibition!!

It's in Kobe's Urban Picnic lounge and its a sounding photo exhibition made by collaborating artists from Latvia and Japan!

Basically there are portraits of choir singers from both countries with Latvian ornament runes and Japanese kanji. In the background a Latvian folksong and a Japanese folksong are playing performed by all singers, but each portrait has a QR code to that person singing the songs separately!

I highly encourage to visit while you can!

[collectionstilllife]

Dace Lapina (Latvian, b. 1954) Still Life with Peaches • n/d

[petalpetal]

Artist I Like Series

Laimdots Mūrnieks 1922 - 2011 a Latvian painter.

[yeswearemagazine]

The Side Look of a Barcelonese #2 053 : Shadowlands photo series, Milton Keynes - Bletchley, England, 07.2018 © Maris Stiglics aka Klonatans :

The Side Look of a Barcelonese #2 053 : Shadowlands photo series, Milton Keynes - Bletchley, England, 07.2018 © Maris Stiglics aka Klonatans :

[theaskew]

Madara Neikena (Latvian, b. 1988) Saulkrasti, 2015. Oil on canvas, 15 7/10 × 11 4/5 × 1 in. | 40 × 30 × 2.5 cm. (Source: Madara Neikena) 

[marejadilla]

Jana Brike, "Of the Sky and the Earth", oil on linen, 2024.

This painting was exhibited in the @beautifulbizarremagazine exhibition ‘Fable & Folklore’ at May, at LA @coprogallery. Jana Brike was born in year 1980 in Riga, Latvia.

[t-jfh]

Mark Rothko, Russian/Latvian-American (25 September 1903 - 25 February 1970)

No. 61 (Rust and Blue) 1953

Oil on canvas, 115 cm x 92 cm (45 in x 36 in)

Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles USA

No. 61 (Rust and Blue) is a 1953 painting by the Russian-American Abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. The work was first exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1961. In common with Rothko's other works from this period, No. 61 consists of large expanses of color delineated by uneven, hazy shades. The Rust and Blue painting was a part of the Color Field Movement because No. 61 relies on subtle tonal values that are often variations of a monochromatic hue. Rust and Blue also uses layered coloring to enrich the hues in the painting, a quality the artist Mark Rothko described as "inner light".

Rothko painted in such a way that at times paint can be seen flowing upward across the surface. This illusion is caused because Rothko would invert his painting toward the final stages of his work. This effect can be seen in No. 61.

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[oncanvas]

Seascape IV (First Series), Hyman Bloom, 1975

Oil on canvas 49 x 69 in. (124.46 x 175.26 cm)

[praxismatters]

THE EVENS ARTS PRIZE 2023

Exploring the critical imaginaries of AI The Evens Arts Prize 2023 is dedicated to artistic practices that challenge prevailing systems of knowledge and experiments new alliances between living beings and machines. 

The Jury is composed of Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Artistic Co-Director, Kunstenfestivaldesarts; Nicolas Bourriaud, Artistic Director, 15th Gwangju Biennale; Elena Filipovic, Director and Curator, Kunsthalle Basel; Matteo Pasquinelli, Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science, Ca’ Foscari University; Gosia Plysa, Director, Unsound. The Jury Chair is André Wilkens, Director, European Cultural Foundation. Artistic Director:  Anne Davidian, curator.

Focus of the Evens Arts Prize 2023 The widespread use of AI applications, particularly in the form of text-to-image generators and large language models, has sparked intense scrutiny and debate. These discussions, fueled by both excitement about their potential and concerns about their biases, bring to the forefront crucial questions about human subjectivity, autonomy, and agency.

Technical systems are deeply intertwined with social systems, shaping our lived experiences, aspirations, and politics. Together with artists, how can we better understand and address the impact of AI and the broader constellation of digital technologies and algorithmic politics? What new imaginaries and alliances can we cultivate between living beings and machines?

The new edition of the Evens Arts Prize seeks to highlight artistic projects that explore alternative cosmologies and epistemologies, question human exceptionalism, and shed light on issues such as surveillance, manipulation, extractivism, digital governance, justice, care, and responsibility in the age of machine intelligence. Of particular interest are practices that experiment with AI to challenge prevailing systems of knowledge and power asymmetries, mobilise technologies towards emancipatory community outcomes, and envision democratic futures.

The laureate is selected by an independent jury from a list of nominations put forward by representatives of major European cultural institutions.

The Nominators of the Evens Arts Prize 2023 Ramon Amaro, Senior Researcher in Digital Culture, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam; Zdenka Badovinac, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Lars Bang Larsen, Head of Art & Research, Art Hub, Copenhagen; Leonardo Bigazzi, Curator, Foundation In Between Art Films, Rome; Mercedes Bunz, Professor Digital Culture & Humanities, King's College, London; Francesca Corona, Artistic Director, Festival d'Automne, Paris; Julia Eckhardt, Artistic Director, Q-02, Brussels; Silvia Fanti, Artistic Director, Live Arts Week /Xing, Bologna; iLiana Fokianaki, Founder, State of Concept, Athens; Cyrus Goberville, Head of Cultural Programming, Bourse de Commerce | Pinault Collection, Paris; Stefanie Hessler, Director, Swiss Institute, New York; Mathilde Henrot, Programmer, Locarno Film Festival; Nora N. Khan & Andrea Bellini, Artistic Directors, Biennale Image en Mouvement 2024, Geneva; Peter Kirn, Director, MusicMakers HackLab, CTM Festival, Berlin; Inga Lace, Curator, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga; Andrea Lissoni, Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Frank Madlener, Director, IRCAM, Paris; Anna Manubens, Director, Hangar, Barcelona; Anne Hilde Neset, Director, Henie Onstad, Høvikodden; Nóra Ó Murchú, Artistic Director, transmediale, Berlin; Maria Ines Rodriguez, Director, Walter Leblanc Foundation, Brussels; Nadim Samman, Curator for the Digital Sphere, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Andras Siebold, Artistic Director, Kampnagel, Hamburg; Caspar Sonnen, Head of New Media, International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA), Amsterdam; Marlies Wirth, Curator for Digital Arts, MAK, Vienna; Ben Vickers, Curator, Publisher, CTO, Serpentine Galleries, London.

The Evens Arts Prize The Evens Arts Prize honours artists who engage with contemporary challenges in Europe and shape inspirational visions for our common world. Far from reducing artistic practice to a function – whether a social balm or a political catalyst – the Evens Arts Prize supports aesthetically and intellectually powerful work that pushes the understanding of alterity, difference, and plurality in new directions, questions values and narratives, creates space for silenced or dissonant voices, and reflects on diverse forms of togetherness and belonging.

The biennial Prize is awarded to a European artist working in the fields of visual or performing arts, including cinema, theater, dance, music; it carries a sum of €15,000. The laureates are selected by an independent jury, from a list of internationally acclaimed artists, nominated by representatives of major European cultural institutions.

The 2011, 2019 and 2021 editions were curated by Anne Davidian and celebrated Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Eszter Salamon, and Sven Augustijnen as laureates of the main prize, while Eliane Radigue and Andrea Büttner received the Special Mention of the Jury.

More about the Prize

📷 from Atlas of Anomalous AI, edited by Ben Vickers and K Allado-McDowell, Ignota Books, 2020