Paula Zarina-Zemane

Paula Zarina-Zemane (1988)

Paula Zarina-Zemane is from the new generation of Latvian painters. She has already developed her personal style, characterized by picturesque, exquisite sense of colour and refined tonal relations. She is also one of the few painters in Latvian contemporary art who focuses on the landscape genre and its various translations and transformations.

“Those are magical moments, when in a split of second I see something that is very clear before my eyes until the moment I wink my eyes , and this apprehension of immeasurability, perfection and even happiness has vanished. It is momentary awareness of fulfilment which vanishes equally momentarily“- Paula Zarina, 2014.

Paula Zarina-Zemane graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia, department of Painting (2013). Exhibiting her works since 2008, Paula Zarina has held 7 solo shows and participated in more than 20 group exhibitions in Latvia and abroad. Among her major solo shows are - One as Another (2018, Careva Contemporary, Riga, Latvia), The Still Point of the Turning World (2017, Latvian National Museum of Art, Exhibition Hall Arsenals-Creative Studio, Riga, Latvia), Awareness. Four Exhibitions (2015, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia), and a group exhibition - Tension. The Young in Latvian painting (2016, Latvian National Museum of Art, Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia).