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I do not view time as a linear flow but as a multidimensional phenomenon in which the past, present, and future exist simultaneously and merge. Memory is not only a personal resource but also an artistic material—something that constantly changes, disappears, and reappears. I am interested in thinking about what is invisible but still is—silence, emptiness, the not-yet-drawn. I approach the unrealised, the unfulfilled, with reverence—recognising the power of potential. In my work, the mother, grandmother, and ancestors appear repeatedly, yet they are not just presences; they are literally woven into my identity. I am the author, but I often disappear within the work or transform—becoming my grandmother, the viewer of a photograph, a child on a swing. I substitute myself with an image, a sound, or a movement, and in doing so I open myself to multiple experiences at once. From subjective memory, which is capricious and selective, I increasingly find inspiration in collective memory—rich with powerful imagery. For me, both thought and the sensuality of form are equally essential. I think about light, shadow, textures, and the physicality of material—and at the same time, these materials become metaphors: paper is skin, the pencil is time, silence is revelation.
Krista Vindberga
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krista.vindberga@gmail.com
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In the second and third decades of the 21st century, Krista Vindberga's works have reached the pinnacle of Latvian art. All her skills in various fields—drawing, painting, video, installation, and scenography—have been acquired and refined in Latvia. This not only demonstrates perfect craftsmanship, which is rarely encountered elsewhere today, but also showcases her ability to conceptualize and precisely express the most complex phenomena, with art itself standing out like a giant smoldering volcano.
Krista Vindberga is one of the few intellectual artists in Latvia with outstanding knowledge and sensitivity in all academic fields of art, whether it be theater, dance, literature, or, above all, music.
In the digital age, Krista Vindberga immortalizes images and her feelings about them, as well as about people she may not have even known, capturing them just as in the past, when it was not shameful to talk about beauty in art and an artist could afford not to be an apologetic and moralizing know-it-all. If in the 17th century a Vanitas painter's uncertainty was hidden behind the frame of the painting, for Krista Vindberga, it is found within the work itself. Her works arrange themselves like prayer beads in a harmonious string, transferring their materiality to the perfection of the spiritual world.
Helēna DemakovaAt a time when the image is no longer an all-powerful tool of art, Krista Vindberga's works serve as model images—metaphors that can be interpreted in diverse and opposing ways: as genre scenes or sacred rituals, as documentary narratives or fiction, as loops that conceptualize repetition or as poetic Fluxus. The universal resonance of these meanings across her body of work inspires awe-filled admiration for the intoxicating nature of art.
Inga Šteimane
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 circles are better than lines, Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga, Latvia
2026 Osculum. Basium. Suāvĭum., Mihail Gallery, Riga
2025 illuminations XI, Alma Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2024 all the possibilities that existed, Kogo Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
2023 I remember everything and then I forget everything, Alma Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2023 All Time, Sofijas street, Ventspils, Latvia / with Reinis Dzudzilo
2020 ALMA MATER, Alma Gallery, Riga, Latvia / with Reinis Dzudzilo
2020 Through a glass darkly, Gallery Daugava, Riga, Latvia
2019 ZRwhdZ. Riga, Contemporary Art Center Kim?, Riga, Latvia / with Reinis Dzudzilo
2017 The Sixth Creation of the World , Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2015 Clarity, Art Needs a Space, Somer house, Riga
2015 One Spectator’s Visit, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia / with Reinis Dzudzilo
2015 wil?* *what is love?, Contemporary Art Center Kim?, Riga, Latvia / with Reinis Dzudzilo
2013 NEUTER, Merķeļa street 17, Riga, Latvia
2012 Empty Space, Kaņepes Kultūras centrā, Riga, Latvia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 collective memory is everything I don’t remember, Prague
2026 Politics of Slowness, Adamson-Ericu muuseum, Tallinn
2025 this is not a love story, Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Vienna Contemporary, Vienna
2024 sleep, my carnation. sleep, my rose. in Formative years Kim?, Riga, Latvia
2023 as close as possible in Wearable Memory and Body Techniques, Contemporary Art Center Kim?, Latvia
2022 You have made me like glass, Clarity, ALMA gallery in NADA, Miami, USA
2021 You have made me like glass, ALMA gallery in Padure manor, Padure
2021 Touching the sun in Flying Closer to the Sun, Art Festival Cēsis, Latvia
2021 IN³ in London Design Biennale, Somerset House, UK
2021 ZRwhdZ. LNMM in Purvīša balva 2021 Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2020 METAMORPHOSIS in public art object parade Kopā, Riga, Latvia / with Reinis Dzudzilo
2020 Clarity in LNMM video collection webpage of Latvian National Museum of Art
2019 MMXVIII in Black Market Contemporary Art Center Kim?, Riga, Latvia / with Reinis Dzudzilo
2019 ZRwhdZ in Latvian pavilion, Prague Quadrennial, Czech Republic /with Reinis Dzudzilo
2019 NordArt Büdelsdorf, Germany
2017 LOVE IS BLIND II Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia / with Reinis Dzudzilo
2017 Vladislavs Goļikovs, Blocker gallery Alma, Riga Latvia
2017 Hyperrealism Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenāls, Riga, Latvia
2016 RESPICE POST TE. HOMINEM TE MEMENTO in Sculpture Quadrennial Riga, Riga, Latvia
2016 MMXVIII in Notes on Self-Evident Things. Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2016 The sixth creation of the world in Baltic Young Artist Award 2016, Riga, Latvia
2015 A BIGGER PEACE, A SMALLER PEACE, Latvian Railway Museum, Latvia / with Reinis Dzudzilo
2015 Summer House Closing , Art Needs a Space, Art Station Dubulti, Jurmala, Latvia
2015 THE SELF. HISTORY OF THE LATVIAN CONTEMPORARY ART, National Library of Latvia
2014 1987 in Young painter prize, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 GREETINGS HEAD!, Latvian Railway Museum, Riga, Latvia
2013 Chemin de fer, Warsaw Art Academy, Warsaw, Poland
2012 Migration, Brussels, Belgium
2011 Draftsman, Gallery Daugava, Riga, Latvia
2010 Brederlo von Sengbusch art prize 2010 at the Hall of Art Academy, Riga, Latvia
WORKS IN SELECTED COLLECTIONS
2025 European Parliament’s Contemporary Art Collection, 3 paintings Through a glass darkly, Silvija, Kiss
2025 VV Foundation Collection, 3 drawings this is not a love story
2024 BTA ART / Vienna Insurance Group Collection, 3 drawings sleep, my carnation. sleep, my rose
2023 Latvian National Museum of Art Collection, 6 drawings I remember everything. I forget everything
2022 Luc Freche Collection, video installation Clarity
2021 Latvian National Museum of Art Collection, installation ZRwhdZ
2020 Latvian National Museum of Art Collection, installation LOVE IS BLIND II,
2017 Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, 2 paintings 1987
2016 Latvian National Museum of Art Collection, video installation Clarity
AUTHOR OF PERFORMANCE - directing, scenography, video, costumes, light
/ with Reinis Dzudzilo /
2022 Silence Falls, Cesis Art festival, Cesis, Latvia
2021 TIME PRESENT, Hanzas Perons, Riga, Latvia
2020 Very good minutes, Dailes Theatre, Riga, Latvia / with Elina and Rudolfs Gedini
2020 One, Concert Hall Latvija, Ventspils, Latvia
2018 36 MINUTES, Tīrkultūra Unexpected_Sources Cesis Art Festival, Cesis Latvia
2017 Pathetique. On visible language, Homo Novus, Riga, Latvia
ARTIST FOR PERFORMANCES
2025 The White Dress, Latvian Academy of Culture - scenography, video, costumes, light
2025 The National Network, The National Theatre Latvia - costumes
2023 Jāzeps un viņa brāļi, The Valmiera Drama Theatre - scenography, costumes
2022 Heart of a dog, Riga Theatre of Mihail Cehov - scenography, costumes
2022 Rhinoceros, Dailes Theatre - scenography, costumes
2020 Century of indifference, Liepajas Theatre - scenography, video, costumes
2018 The Flying Dutchman, The Latvian National Opera - costumes, video
2018 Baladina, The Valmiera Drama Theatre - costumes
2017 Salome, The National Theatre of Latvia - costumes
2017 King Lear, Riga Russian Theatre of Mihail Cehov - costumes
2016 Peer Gynt, The National Theatre of Latvia - costumes
2015 Portraits. Wolves and sheep, Liepaja Theatre - costumes
2015 Fire and night, The National Theatre of Latvia - costumes
2015 The golden horse, Siguldas Opera Festival - scenography, video, costumes
2015 Le Villi, The Latvian National Opera - costumes
2015 Corpus, Riga Congress centre, New hall - scenography, video, costumes, light
2014 Summerfolk, Riga Russian Theatre of Mihail Cehov - costumes
2013 Red Riding Hood, The Latvian National Theatre - costumes
2013 Raudupiete, The Valmiera Drama Theatre - costumes
2012 Swamp wader, The Latvian National Theatre - costumes
2012 MACBETH. MONO, Andrejosta - costumes
2012 Indrani, Riga Russian Theatre of Mihail Cehov - costumes
2011 Performance End, The Latvian National Theatre - costumes
2011 Puppies, Independent Theatre Dirty Deal Teatro - costumes
2011 HEDA, Andrejosta - costumes
2011 ГРАНЁНКА, Riga Russian Theatre of Mihail Cehov - costumes
AWARDS / NOMINATIONS
2025 Scholarship, Creativity Scholarship State Cultural Capital Fund
2024 Award Best Scenograph, Latvian Theatre Union, for the performance Jāzeps un viņa brāļi
2022 Scholarship, Richard Wagner Scholarship 2022
2021 Award Best visual concept, Latvian Theatre Union, for the performance Degunradži in Dailes Theatre
2021 Nomination Best concert, The Latvian Grand Music Award 2020 for the concert – performance One
2020 Nomination Purvīša balva 2021 for ZRwhdZ. Riga.
2020 Nomination Kilograms kultūras for the concert –performance One, Latvian Public Media Award
2019 Award The best curatorial concept for ZRwhdZ in Prague Quadrennial
2019 Nomination Purvīša balva 2021 for the installation ZRwhdZ. Riga
2019 Award National Design Award of Latvia for the exhibition design for Burning Conscience
2019 Nomination Costume Artist of the year, Latvian Theatre Union for the opera The Flying Dutchman
2018 Nomination Costume Artist of the year by the Latvian Theatre Union for the performances Salome
2017 Nomination Costume Artist of the year by the Latvian Theatre Union for the performance Karalīs Līrs
2016 Award Best work in Notes on Self-Evident Things. Model Exhibition, Latvian National Museum of Art
2016 Nomination Purvīša balva 2021 for the installation video installation Clarity
2016 Award Best Costume Artist of the Year 2016 Latvian Theater Union Award
2016 Award Golden potato in Diena award for the best cultural event of the year for the opera Le Villi
2016 Award Golden potato in Diena award for the best cultural event of the year for the opera The Golden Horse
2014 Nomination Costume Artist of the year by the Latvian Theatre Union for the performanc Summerfolk
2012 Award For excellent visual image, International Tartu Drama festival
2012 Jury's Special Award The search of a new theater art form, Latvian Theatre Union
2010 Award Borisa Bērziņa scholarship drawing grand
EDUCATION
2013 – 2016 Master’s degree in Faculty of Audio-Visual Media Art in the Department of Visual Communication, Art Academy of Latvia
2009 – 2013 Bachelor's degree in Faculty of Visual Arts, Painting department, Art Academy of Latvia
2005 – 2009 Janis Rozentals Riga Arts School
1996 – 2005 Riga Center Language School
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