13.06. - 10.08.2024

Galerija "Māksla XO"

Elizabetes iela 14, Rīga, LV 1010

IEVA ILTNERE

My Own Room

“I wanted it to be peaceful. No pathos. There is so much worrying around.
My own room. Simple things and situations. People in the room. A painting is looking at you. A bookshelf. A collection of vinyl records. Black and white photos from the past. Self-explanatory things. As if...” Ieva Iltnere, 2024.

Ieva Iltnere’s “My Own Room” is her studio, where characters for paintings are lived and created. The termin “my own room” defines a space. This painted dimension characterizes Ieva Iltnere’s practice as a painter, and the viewer can get closer to this creative process’s origin. Ieva Iltnere reveals what inspires her – paintings, books, photographs, design objects, fashion, architecture, and ethno-culture.
With her unique talent, Ieva Iltnere creates the space within her paintings in a way that suggests the visible scene has existed forever. She has the ability to balance images, objects, and landscapes regardless of their origin and historical period. Ieva Iltnere thinks in terms of spatial context, interrupting the planes of a room by bringing together different, sometimes completely opposite, objects.
The poetic and metaphorical force of “My Own Room” focuses on the contemplation between life and imagination, existence and artistic creativity. (Ilze Žeivate)

Ieva Iltnere (1957) graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia, Indulis Zariņš workshop (1982). Since 1980, she has held 26 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 90 major group exhibitions in Latvia and abroad. Ieva Iltnere’s paintings are in public collections: Latvian National Museum of Art (Riga, Latvia), Latvian Artist’s Union Museum (Riga, Latvia), Collection of Future Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art (Riga, Latvia), Ludwig Museum (Aachen, Germany), European Central Bank Art Collection (Frankfurt, Germany), Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum of Art, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA), The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia).
In 2017, Ieva Iltnere was awarded with the Order of Three Stars.