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Inga Meldere
Born: 1979, Kuldiga / Latvia
Lives and works in Helsinki / Finland
Education:
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2013 - 2014 |
Jan van Eyck Academie, postgraduate studies, Maastricht / Netherlands |
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2008 - now Latvian Academy of Art Doctoral Programme, Riga / Latvia
2005 - 2007 MA, Faculty of History and Theory of Arts, restoration, Latvian Academy of Art,
Department of Restorations, Riga / Latvia
2001 - 2005 Bachelor Degree, Faculty of History and Theory of Arts, restoration, Latvian Academy of Art, Department of Restorations, Riga / Latvia
1997 - 2001 Bachelor Degree in pedagogy, specialty in Visual Arts and Art History, University of
Latvia, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Riga / Latvia
1985 - 1997 Vila Pludona 1st High school of Kuldiga / Latvia
Solo exhibitions:
2019 "Brownie from Bruninieku street" curated by Kaspars Vanags, microRIBOCA, the inter-season programme of RIBOCA, Riga / Latvia
2019 “Hidden Matter” with Mikko Hintz, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki / Finland
2017 “Twofold” with Atis Ieviņš, Latvian National Museum of Art; curator Inga Lāce organized by LCCA, Riga / Latvia
2017 “Vertex” SIC space, Helsinki / Finland
2016 “Coloring Books” Kim?, Riga / Latvia
2016 “House by the waterfall or Coloring Books for Adults” Gallery Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn / Estonia
2015 “Blaumanis” Room" museum of Janis Rozentals and Rudolfs Blaumanis, Riga / Latvia
2015 “Berzkalni” gallery G12, Helsinki / Finland
2013 “Magic Mountain” gallery Maksla XO, Riga / Latvia
2012 “Enough Is Enough” with Mikko Hintz, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2011 “Offset” gallery Maksla XO, Riga / Latvia
2011 “Unwritten” kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga / Latvia
2010 “Museum” experimental project, SURVIVALKIT 2, Bergs Bazaar ,Riga / Latvia
2010 “Polite Diplomacy” Parventa Library of Ventspils, Ventspils / Latvia
2009 “Housewives” gallery pārDaugava, Riga / Latvia
2008 “Respite” State Electrotechnical Factory (VEF) 7th corpus, Riga / Latvia
2007 “SPA” with paintress Daiga Krūze, Valmiera State Grammar school art gallery ”Ledus pagrabs”, Valmiera / Latvia
Selected group exhibitions and workshops:
2021 (Upcoming) Helsinki Biennial, Vallisaari, Helsinki / Finland
2020 “Black Market”, KIM?, Riga / Latvia
2020 “Kuvan Kevät 2020”, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki / Finland
2019 “Black Market”, KIM?, Riga / Latvia
2019 “Talk to Me!”- exhibition of Latvian contemporary art from the collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Akureyri Art Museum / Iceland
2019 "Games People Play", Careva Contemporary, Riga / Latvia
2019 "Post Winter Mixtape", Gallery Temnikova& Kasela, Tallinn / Estonia
2019 SURVIVAL KIT 10.1 - Contemporary Art Festival, Riga / Latvia
2018 “Crystal Second Mode”, Gallery 427, Riga / Latvia
2018 “The Provisional City”, Spazio Murat, Bari / Italy
2018 “The Malphigian Layer”, CAR DRDE Gallery, Bologna /Italy 2018 “Portable Landscapes”, Körsbärsgården, Gotland / Sweden
2018 “Portable Landscapes” Latvian National Muzeum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2018 “There and Back Again - Contemporary Art from the Baltic Sea Region", KIASMA, Helsinki / Finland
2018 “Substitutes”, Ateliersi, Bologna / Italy
2017 “Deus Macxina”, Tartu Art House, Tartu / Estonia
2017 “I was told there would be cake”, Project room, Helsinki / Finland
2017 “Young Popes” Latvian Institute Rome, Tower of Villa Maraini, Instituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, Italy
2017 “I Touch Myself” Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2016 “You Talkin' to Me?” Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich / Switzerland
2016 “Contemporary Landscape” Art Festival Cesis, Cesis / Latvia
2016 “Black Paintings” gallery Maksla XO, Riga / Latvia
2015 SURVIVAL KIT 7, LCCA, Riga / Latvia
2015 “Le Fragole Del Baltico”, CareOf, Milan / Italy
2014 “Magical Riso”, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht / Netherlands
2014 “Skip Landscape”, Kuldiga Artist's Residency, Kuldiga/ Latvia
2014 JVE Open studios, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht / Netherlands
2014 Display of works in The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sience, Hague, /Netherlands
2012 “Jaunums! Fresh Latvian Painting” Tartu Art House, Monumentaalgaleri, Tartu / Estonia
2012 “Kamolitis” art space Kalnciema Kvartals, Riga / Latvia
2012 „Important contemporary Latvian artists”- travelling exibition National Arts Club NY; Driehaus Museum Chicago; Washington, USA; Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia*
2012 “Is it that he does not seek the truth, but does want to influence?” Riga Art Space, Riga / Latvia
2011 “Tides of Change. Balticum”, HangART-7, Salzburg / Austria
2011 “FAX” South London Gallery, London / England
2011 “Résidences Croisées” CEEAC gallery, Strasbourg / France
2011 “Point Zero” Totaldobže Art centre, Riga / Latvia
2011 “Mother of Wind” gallery HFBK, Hamburg / Germany
2010 “I live, I die” VEF Art Centre, Riga / Latvia
2010 “False Recognition” 14th Vilnius Painting Triennial, Lithuanian Centre for Contemporary Art (CAC), Vilnius / Lithuania
2010 “We Are Fine” gallery ArtDepoo, Tallin / Estonia
2010 “Experimental Station Laimdota”, Cesis / Latvia
2009 “Moving Lines” gallery ARTforum, Offenburg / Germany’
2009 “Wonderful Journey” State Electrotechnical Factory (VEF) 7th corpus, Riga / Latvia
2008 “In the Sky and on the Earth” gallery Daugava, Riga / Latvia
2008 “Neatness”- drawing exhibition creative space Tasty Shop, Riga / Latvia
2008 “Solitude” international exhibition Neue Kunstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop / Germany
2008 Exhibition of the Professors of Latvian Academy of Art - Brussels, Belgium
2007 Young ones in Latvian painting “Candy Bombers” Exhibition Hall Arsenals of State Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2007 Kuldiga new artists’ exhibition, Kuldiga District Museum, Kuldiga / Latvia
2007 “Indulis Zarins Scholarship” – competition exhibition organized by the Latvian Academy of Art and gallery Bastejs, Riga / Latvia
2007 “Münchner Künstlerhaus-Stiftung. Golden Kentaur journey”- competition exhibition, Munich / Germany
2006 “Demarcated Gear” gallery Mans’s, Jekabpils / Latvia
2006 “Autumn 2006” Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga / Latvia
2006 Galerijos centros Jonava workshop, Jonova / Lithuania
2005 “Mailbox” gallery Bastejs, Riga / Latvia
2005 “Body Language” gallery Bastejs, Riga / Latvia
2004 exhibition of Florence group of Latvian Academy of Art (the impressions about trip to Florence organized by Academy) Riga / Latvia
Organized exhibitions:
2011 Rezidence Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris / France
2010 Residence Centre Europeen d'Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg / France
2009 “Gāzīte” Latvian contemporary art exhibition in Kuldiga’s old gas Bureau, Kuldiga / Latvia
2009 Creative Scholarship / Residence Mecklenburg/Western Pomerania Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop, Ahrenshoop / Germany
2008 Latvian Academy of Art Restoration Department traveling exhibition "Restoration in a different perspective", Kuldiga District Museum, Kuldiga / Latvia
2008 Latvian Academy of Art Restoration Department traveling exhibition "Restoration in a different perspective", gallery pārDaugava, Riga / Latvia
2008 “Souvenir”- international exhibition, State Electrotechnical Factory (VEF) 7th corpus, Riga / Latvia
2008 “Squirrel” café Squirrel, Kuldiga / Latvia
2008 Latvian Academy of Art Restoration Department traveling exhibition "Restoration in a different
perspective", Valmiera - Valka Children's Art School, Valka – Forest School, Cesis / Latvia
2008 Latvian Academy of Art Restoration Department exhibition “Save!” hall of Latvian Academy of Art, Riga / Latvia
2006 Latvian Academy of Art Restoration Department 15th anniversary exhibition "Restoration in a different perspective", Riga / Latvia
Residencies and fellowships participation in conferences:
2018 Cité internationale des arts, Paris / France
2017 BAC (Baltic Art Center), Gotland / Swede
2011 Cité internationale des arts, Paris / France
2010 Centre Europeen d`Actions Artistiques Conteporaines; Strasbourg / France
2009 Mecklenburg Western Pomerania federal district supported residence, Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop / Germany
2008 8th Baltic renovator’s Conference, Tallinn / Estonia
2006 Brederlo Family Grant for curated exhibition "Restoration in a different perspective"
2003 Residence for Hanseatic fellowship cities, Wesel /Germany
Works in Public Collections:
Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
Finnish State Art Collection, Helsinki / Finland
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki / Finland