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Andris Eglitis
EDUCATION
2012 – 2013 Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK), Ghent, Belgium
2003 – 2005 MA in Painting Department, Art Academy of Latvia
2004 Exchange studies in Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Russia
2002 Exchange studies in Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
1999 – 2003 BA in Painting Department, Art Academy of Latvia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008 – 2017 Lecturer in Painting Department, Art Academy of Latvia
2017 – 2019 Head of Painting Department, Art Academy of Latvia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Some Instances of Encounters between Imagination and Matter, Zemlika festival, Durbe, Latvia
2020 Artificial Light, Pop-off-art gallery, Moscow
2019 Playground for accepting your mortality, (with Katrina Neiburga), Klosterruine, Berlin
2017 Long Pickled Cucumbers , (with Katrina Neiburga), exhibition in Riga, Latvia
2016 Roots and Plastic, Ppo/off/art gallery, Moscow, Russia
Transition, Gallery Daugava, Riga, Latvia
Transition, KMR gallery, Kuldīga, Latvia
2015 Creatures, Gallery Alma, Riga, Latvia
2014 Possible Place, Cēsis Exhibition Hall, Cēsis, Latvia
Dirty Modernism, Gallery Alma, Riga, Latvia
De/Construction, Gallery De Filatuur, Aalst, Belgium
2012 Layers of time and paint, NUNC Contemporary Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Near Ideal, Krome Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011 Earthworks, Mūkusala Art Salon, Riga, Latvia
2010 Living conditions, former bank building at 15 Kaļķu street, Riga, Latvia
2009 I Want to Be There, old storage building, Cēsis, Latvia
Order of Things, Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia
2008 Under The Sky, LCCA project space Canteen, Andrejsala, Riga, Latvia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Skit, Savage, Drusti, Latvia
A Giant on Clay Feet, MABOCA gallery Visuma Centrs2, Madona, Latvia
2020 Savage, Drusti, Latvia
Gali persiųsti šiandien arba ryt, Jodkrante art gallery, Lithuania
2019 Coexistence, Kisama, Helsinki, Finland
Fur Collar, Meno Parkas gallery, Dusseldorf, Vācija
2018 Installation Nest with Katrina Neiburga at Riga Biennale- RIBOCA, Latvia
TGLX6LDP Exhibition State of Future, exhibition hall Arsenāls, Latvia
2016 Will-O’-the-Wisp, Kochi-Muziris biennale, Kochi, India
All Mounds can be seen from my window, Bunkier Sztuki gallery, Poland.
2015 It takes imagination to build Reality. Narracje festival 2015, Gdansk, Poland.
Armpit. Latvian Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
Impressions and Parallels, Musée Ianchelevici, La Louvière, Belgium
2014 Survival Kit 6, Contemporary Art Festival, former Boļševička Textile Factory Riga, Latvia
Latvian Contemporary Painting. Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Cente
In Search of the Horizon, Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga, Latvia
2013 Portrait of the Artist. Works and References, HISK Laureates 2013, Ghent, Belgium
...for an occurrence to become an adventure..., ABLV Bank collection for the forthcoming Contemporary Art Museum, Riga Art Space, Latvia
Purvītis Prize, Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia
2012 Survival Kit 4, Contemporary Art Festival, Tobacco Factory, Riga, Latvia
Cēsis Art Festival, Cēsis Brewery, Latvia
Important Latvian Artists, The National Arts Club, New York, USA
Is It That He Does Not Seek The Truth, But Does Want To Influence?, Riga Art Space, Latvia
2011 Thickspace, Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia
Tides of Change. New Art from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, HangART-7, Salzburg, Austria
By the Amber Sea. 1990–2010. Collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia
2010 We Are Fine, ArtDepoo Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
Figure, Gallery Daugava, Riga, Latvia
Illusion of Inclusion, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 Space Oddity. Europe XXL programme, Maison Folie de Wazemmes, Lille, France
Purvītis Prize, Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia
Éclair, Galerie Crous Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Skywards and on the Earth, Gallery Daugava, Riga, Latvia
2008 Contemporary Painting of Latvia, MOYA, Vienna, Austria
Do Not Hurry, VEF, Riga, Latvia
Urban Stories, Gallery art promotion02, Liebshausen, Germany
2007 Candy Bomber. Young Latvian Painters, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia
Trajectory 4: aka Institute Of Contemporary Art. Transforming Vectors, LCCA Project space Canteen, Andrejsala, Riga, Latvia
Garden of Mundane Pleasures, Gallery Māksla XO, Riga, Latvia
2006 U25, Gallery K-Māksla?, Liepāja, Latvia
2005 Etonnate Academie, Gallery La Serra, Saint Etienne, France
Latvian Art, Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Russia
2003 Self-portrait. Testament, cameraman, painter and photographer in the film by Andris Grīnbergs
Prague–Riga art dialogue, Gallery Pokorna, Prague, Czech Republic
2002 Social Exhibitionism (with Andris Grīnbergs), The Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga, Latvia
Autumn, Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia
2001 Contemporary Utopia (with Andris Grīnbergs), Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia
Awards
2013 Purvītis Prize, Latvia
2009 Nomenee for Purvītis Prize, Latvia
2003 The best debut in art criticism, art magazine Studija, Latvia
Residencies
2008 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catalogues
Armpit. Andris Eglitis, Katrina Neiburga.Latvian Pavilion Bienale Arte 2015. LCCA, 2015
Andris Eglītis. Iespējama vieta. Glezniecība, fotogrāfija, koktēlniecība, būves [Possible Place. Painting, photography, constructed sculpture]. [Text by Kaspars Vanags] Cēsis: Cēsis Exhibition Hall, 2014.
Latvian Contemporary Art, 2007–2012: The Purvītis Award. Eds. Mairita Brice, Una Meistare, Daiga Rudzāte. Riga: Artterritory.com, 2013.
Without Walls: ABLV Bank collection for the Contemporary Art Museum. 2005–2013. Comp. Laima Slava. Riga: ABVL Bank, Neputns, 2013.
Important contemporary artists of Latvia. [Texts by Eleanor Heartney and Mark Svede]. Ed. Stella Pelše. Riga: Latvian Transatlantic Organization, 2012.
Andris Eglītis. Living Conditions. [Texts by Andris Eglītis, Andris Breže, Ieva Kulakova]. Riga: Galerija 21, 2011.
Andris Eglītis. Zemes darbi [Earthworks]. [Texts by Sniedze Sofija Kāle, Māra Traumane]. Riga: Mūkusalas mākslas salons, 2011.
Thickspace: Dr. Guntis Belēvičs collection. [Text by Anita Vanaga]. Riga: Blankenfelde, 2011.
Andris Eglītis. Under the Sky. [Text by Maria Lind]. Riga: LCCA, 2008.
Candy Bomber. Young Latvian Painters. Eds. Diāna Barčevska, Maija Rudovska. Riga: Veritas, RJA, 2007.
Selected Articles and Reviews
Puķīte, Šelda. The Purvītis Prize as a brand, event and totalisator // Studija, April/May, 2013, pp. 8–11.
Bankovskis, Pēteris. The visible as transient, the invisible as permanent // Studija, April/May, 2013, pp. 12–15.
Kāle, Sniedze Sofija. Present-day humanist // Studija, Febr./March, 2011, pp. 12–17.
Kukaine, Jana. How about cup of tea? // Studija, June/July, 2009, pp. 10–15.
Rudovska, Maija. Andris Eglītis. Exhibition Under the Vault of Heaven // Studija, Febr./March, 2009, p. 46.
Andris Eglītis in conversation with Diāna Barčevska. A way of becoming a better person // Studija, Dec./Jan., 2007/2008, pp. 78–84.
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