BALTIC ART Festival “VOLUME UP!”
September 23, Friday 8 PM Grace Exhibition Space
$10 at eventbrite / Members FREE
(50% off tickets with code: VolumeUp)
LATVIAN Live performances:
“Light Side of the Shadow” // Arvis Kantisevs
“Blue” // Irita Tilane
“She who sees” // Anna Maskava
“There She Goes My Beautiful World” // Simona Orinska (performance), Arvis Kantisevs (sound)
“Oaktress” // Beatrise Anda Ozolina (video)
Installation, performance object:
“Safe Space” // Laura Feldberga
Occasional live performance by Performance group Animist
September 22, Thursday 6 PM Latvian Lecture, presentation by Laine Kristberga
“Performance Art in Latvia: Challenges and Obstacles Historically and Today”
September 24, Saturday 6 PM Latvian Video screening: Ieva Balode, Ivars Grāvlejs Mārtiņš Ratniks, Elīna Semane, Arturs Virtmanis, Daniela Vetra, GolfClayderman, Beatrise Anda Ozolina.
Baltic Art Exhibition “Volume UP!”
September 9 to 25, 2022
Baltic Art Exhibition @ GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE GALLERY
“Volume UP!”
Arvo Pärt, Jaan Toomik, Marko Mäetamm, Jüri Ojaver, Kiwa, Toomas Kuusing, Arvo Sailev, Pilleneeve, Non Grata, Georg Maciunas, Jonas Mekas, Vaida Tamoševiciutė, Goda Žukauskaite, Židrija Janušaite, Inga Galinyte, Evaldas Jansas, Monika Dirsyte, Marc Rothko, Ieva Naglina, Paulis Liepa, Laine Kristberga, Simona Orinska, Laura Feldberga.
—— LIVE ARTISTS:
SIMONA ORINSKA is a performance and butoh artist, choreographer, director, poet, author of articles and books, working in this field for about 20 years. Her artistic interests cover the archetypal, primordial, healing, unconsciousness processes of human body and mind, as well Baltic identity and crossroads of different cultures.
Simona was one of the founders and artistic director of unique “Riga Performance Art Festival: STARPTELPA” (from 2018) and board member of “Latvian Centre for Performance Art”, also one of the founders and tutors of the program “Performance Art” at the Educational Centre (2017) and the Latvian Art Academy (2021); founder and creative director of MĀ TELPA Artist Residency and Education centre (2017). She was also the founder and creative director of RISEBA University’s program “Multimedia Performing Arts” (2015-2018).
Author of various performances, books, exhibitions, multimedia projects (since 2004). Simona has performed in Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Belorusia, and has worked with contemporary theatre directors as Modris Tenisons (Riga, Latvia), Alvis Hermanis (Riga New Theatre, Latvia) and Peeter Jalakas (Von Krahl theatre, Estonia). Simona received an award from the Cultural Society/Latvian Ministry of Culture (2007), she has also collaborated with the EU-Japan Foundation for many years.
IRITA TILANE was born in 1980 / Latvia. In 2014 she moved to Italy, where she studied ceramics. Irita’s artistic background is based on fashion design, and her works explore interdisciplinary manifestations in various disciplines of visual and applied art. Irita has twenty years’ work experience throughout the projects in fashion concept development, illustrations, tattoo art and interior design. Irita always challenges herself to search for new sources of inspiration and experimentation. Irita’s paintings, drawings and sculptures present a world where frivolous reality goes hand-in-hand with the unreal, imaginary and metaphysical. Recently, Irita has turned to performance art with several solo and group projects. She is the author and leader of performance collective ANIMIST. https://www.iritatilanepakalnina.com/
ANNA MASKAVA (1990) is a visual artist based in Latvia whose artistic practice includes performance art, photography and exploration of points of intersection between performance and photography or other media. Most of her work reflects upon the artist’s personal experience and is rooted in autobiographical impulses and in-depth research of her identity. Her creative practice is engaged with the investigation of personal mythology, animistic worldview, archetypal manifestation of the body and individual experience as a part of the collective history and memory. Anna Maskava’s performance pieces often include ritualistic, repetitive actions and durational processes aimed at questioning the perception of time and examining the transformative states of consciousness with the tools of visual art. Northern nature and environment untouched by human are the sources of inspiration for Anna Maskava and her works of art. Often, they become the central elements of her artistic strategy.
LAURA FELDBERGA (1975) is a printmaker who also works with installations, objects and performance art. She graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia and currently works in the field of installations and objects. The themes and imagery of her work are connected with personal and collective experience, relationships with nature, landscape, belonging to one’s skin, place and identity. She has participated in exhibitions and art projects in the Baltic states, Scandinavia, Russia, Iceland, USA, Japan and elsewhere. She has worked as a creative project curator at Pedvale Art Park. She is a member of performance art group IDEAGNŌSIS. http://laurafeldberga.lv/
LAINE KRISTBERGA is an art historian, researcher and R&D project manager at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia. She holds a PhD from the Art Academy of Latvia. Currently her doctoral thesis, Intermedial Appropriation as a Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Performance Art in Latvia in the Period of Late Socialism (1964–1989), is being turned into a monograph that will be available in both English and Latvian. Kristberga also works as an assistant professor at the University of Latvia and teaches at the Art Academy of Latvia, and Riga Business School. Her scholarly interests cover art, culture, and politics during the Cold War period. As the director of the Latvian Centre for Performance Art, she is responsible for organizing the international performance art festival Starptelpa on an annual basis.
IEVA NAGLINA (b. 1981) is an artist and curator, who works and lives in Riga, Latvia. She graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia graphic department in 2007. In creative work, Naglina uses graphics, painting, and mixed media. As a curator at the Riga Porcelain Museum, Naglina works with contemporary graphic and ceramic art. Since 2016 Naglina has been the program curator of the international festival “Printmaking IN” in Riga, Latvia. She also runs the broadcast about art “Subjektīvie mērījumi” (Subjective measurements) on radio “NABA” (Latvia).
Latvian Centre for Performance Art was founded in 2018 with the aim of facilitating performance art in Latvia by organizing art, educational and cultural events, as well as creating a scientific research base and archive. Latvian Centre for Performance Art collaborates with foreign artists and scholars as well as local partners. The key event organized by the Latvian Centre for Performance Art is the annual international performance art festival STARPTELPA, which takes place in Riga.
