Artists 2018

Māris Čačka is a graphic artist and curator. He works in a unique way combining methods from various printing techniques resulting in abstract images, that can remind blooming gardens, distant galaxies. Yet, works also are visual stories of dialogues with people on his path, palimpsests containing countless layers of messages.

Sigita Chlebinskaite

There is something classical and at the same time urban and unpretentious in Rasmus Dano aesthetics – the traditional graphic virtues meet a contemporary expression complementing each other.

Gundega Evelone does whatever she pleases the way she wants. She makes sculptures, performances, graphic art, texts, videos, does the cooking, gardening, and other stuff. She’s into socially critical themes as well as pure art forms. Gundega Evelone has participated in more than 50 different art projects in Latvia and abroad both as an author, as well as curator.

Graphic artist working with different techniques. Greta Grendaitė graduated from the Graphic Arts department of Vilnius Academy of Arts, the Kaunas Art Institute (BA, 2002) and from the department of Art History and Criticism at Vytautas Magnus University (MA, 2005). Since 2006 she teaches at VAA Kaunas Faculty. Author of over 10 solo exhibitions and participant of over 70 group shows in Lithuania and abroad. Curator of several art exhibitions, too. Together with artist Tomas Vosylius forms the core of the creatively active group Legal (Art) Lovers.

Jurgita Jasinskaite received BA (1999) and MA (2001) degree from the Ceramics department at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, currently runs the laboratory and is a lecturer at the said Academy.  Participant of international and national exhibitions, plainairs and symposiums, member of Lithuanian Artists Association, former member of the Experimental Archeology Club. In her works Jurgita seeks to combine visual arts with the three dimensionality of ceramics.

Līva Kandevica comes from Liepāja and just finished her studies of communication design at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany. Together with the Esselbrügge twins and Julius Wagner, she makes a zine called Fanart.

Ernests Kļaviņš does painting, animation and interactive artistic solutions. He has worked as illustrator for news-paper “Diena” and now – for the news-paper “Ir”.

Rebeka Lukošus is studying painting and illustration at the Art Academy of Latvia and successfully taking her first steps in book illustration. She enjoys working with oil pastels, adding some pencil-drawn lines to the colourful chaos.

Anete Melece studied visual communication at the Art Academy of Latvia (BA) and animation at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art (MA). She is an illustrator and animation filmmaker currently based in Zürich, Switzerland.

Aigars Opincāns studied painting and design at the Art Academy of Latvia. He passionately dedicates himself to the experiments with drawing both in Moleskine sketchbooks using pencil, ink and other materials and digitally. Aigars works have been published in the Popper Publishing group book. He creates posters for concerts and visual identities for independent musicians.

Rasa Pavilona

Drawing comics is just one of the many things Oskars Pavlovskis does. He is still exploring and enjoys working in different media―he has made short animations, illustrations, silk-screen prints, sculptures, 3D computer graphics, and concept art for games.

Ingrīda Pičukāne studied visual communication at the Art Academy of Latvia and graduated animation program in Estonian Academy of Arts. She also has participated for several times in the contemporary art festival Survival Kit, and her comics are regularly published in Baltic comic magazine Š! Now she makes illustrations for magazines and children’s books, publishes the feminist magazine Samanta, and shocks with scandalous exhibitions.

Lāsma Pujāte studied graphic art the Art Academy of Latvia. Her artworks are a subjective and emotional reaction to endless flow of the information. Their characteristics are often bright colors in contrast with the narrowed-down, monochrome palette, melancholy and insightfulness.

Hanele Zane Putniņa

Orūnė Raudonė is academically trained painter – she gradutated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts (MA, 1997) and  has been participating in exhibitions ever since early 1990s. She spent most of 2000s working as a curator at the ARKA Gallery in Vilnius. Currently works mostly with drawing as her main medium, creating series of pictures.

Airida Rekštytė Born in Klaipeda, studied in Kaunas and graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts (MA, 2004). Participated in numerous group exhibitions and projects in Lithuania and abroad. Since 2001 Airida is a founding member of the artists group PO „Elnių slėnis“ (Deer Valley) and from 2007 works as a designer and curator in contemporary art gallery „Meno parkas“ (Art Park) in Kaunas. Her field of artistic interest has shifted from painting to photography, installation and land art; As a designer she works on collaboration projects – making artistic books – with other artists (f.ex. Robertas Antinis).

Pauls Rietums is a young illustrator and comic artist currently studying architecture at the Glasgow School of Art. Inspired by children’s books he enjoys making stories about extraordinary events in ordinary places.

Līva Rutmane gained master’s degree in Art Academy of Art in graphic arts. Her artworks often are pencil drawings of informal elements of reality. Often complemented with photographic or digital imagery or any other material, works apply a spatial closure and abstract dimension. She participates in exhibitions since 2002 and there are no sudden changes expected in this area in future.

Steinar Stensen

Anna Vaivare is an illustrator and architect working in Riga. She has enjoyed drawing silly stuff since childhood, which led her to making comics. In recent years, she has illustrated a bunch of children’s books.

Lote Vilma Vītiņa has graduated from the Painting Department of the Art Academy of Latvia in 2017. Besides painting, she also loves to illustrate and write. She has created illustrations for some children’s books and her work has been included in comics anthologies too.

Marta Vosulīte ir diplomēta scenogrāfe un uz pasauli lūkojas kā uz nebeidzamu seriālu, skatot to caur ironijas brillēm. Absolvējusi M.K.Čurļoņa Mākslas ģimnāziju un Viļņas Mākslas akadēmijā ieguvusi bakalaura (1999) un maģistra (2001) grādu scenogrāfijā. Viņa ir veidojusi skatuves risinājumus vairāk kā trīsdesmit uzvedumiem dažādos teātros un pasākumu norises vietās Lietuvā un ir īpaši ieinteresēta darboties skatuves mākslām neraksturīgās vietās. Marta eksponē savus zīmējumus un gleznas personālizstādēs, kā arī grupu skatēs.

Zane Zlemeša paints, and makes comics and illustrations. She has graduated with a Master’s degree in Printmaking at the Art Academy of Latvia and now she is studying at HGB Leipzig. She has released several self-published zines and her first comic book “Fenix” was published by kuš! in 2017.

Mārtiņš Zutis is an illustrator born in Riga, where he studied at the Visual Communication department of the Art Academy of Latvia. Besides having his short comics published in various magazines, he has illustrated eight titles. Children’s book “Nenotikušais atklājums” granted him the award “Jaunaudze” for his debut in children’s literature.

Sigute Chlebinskaitė is graphic artist, one of most notable book artists of Lithuania. Second half of 1990s she spent studying Graphic art in Vilnius Academy of Arts, Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design and receiving additional training at the Salzburg Summer Academy. Most of 2000s Sigute spent doing internships in Germany, Sweden and the UK. She is a member of several commitees and juries regarding the book art in Lithuania as well as abroad.

Ieva Saulīte works with site- and room- specific installations, combining different media – drawing, painting, photography, performance elements, etc. In her artworks artist tends to show and comment on perception of the world and human under the influence of popular culture and everyday paraphernalia along with concepts of domestic oblivion, nostalgia, banality and kitsch.

Kate Seržāne is a devoted graphic artist and gardener and loves academic drawing. She finds inspiration in nature, aquatic life and light paying with darkness. Her creative endeavors often go beyond paper as performances, art happenings and extravagant presence.