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“SEB Grant in Painting” Contest Exhibition
10 May 2013 – 30 May 2013, Hall of the Art Academy of Latvia
The Art Academy of Latvia is pleased to continue its five-year long cooperation with SEB bank and is proud to announce that the annual “SEB Grant in Painting” contest exhibition will be on view at the Academy’s Hall throughout May. On show you’ll find 68 paintings by 45 young Latvian artists currently studying at the Art Academy of Latvia. On 27 May 2013 at 6pm everyone is kindly invited to attend the closing ceremony of the exhibition, during which the winner of the scholarship and the recipient of the Audience Award will be announced. |
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 Second Term Assignment Exhibitions 2012/2013 (0 comments)
Second term assignment exhibitions 2012/2013 this spring lasted from 29 April through 8 May 2013. Students of all the fourteen departments of the Art Academy of Latvia displayed their study works and presented the projects they have been working on for the duration of the spring term. Click to read more and find photo galleries from each day.
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 Drawing Competition KoMASK 2012 in Belgium Won by Zane Zlemeša (0 comments)
Zane Zlemeša, third year student at the Department of Graphic Art of the Art Academy of Latvia, has been awarded the main prize of drawing competition „KoMASK 2012. The Human Figure”, Belgium. Zane is currently Erasmus student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
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 Student Art Fair "JARMARKA 2012" (0 comments)
The annual student art fair-exhibition-charity event JARMARKA this year celebrates its 10th anniversary! If you are in Riga from 19 until 29 December 2012, do include JARMARKA on your route. It is a spectacular large-scale event that every December assembles together around three hundred students of the Art Academy of Latvia who are exhibiting and offering for sale their study works. It is planned that this year the number of artworks and design objects on sale will amount up to 15’000 and will include paintings, sketches, graphic artworks, installations, jewellery, clothing etc. It is definitely the best Christmas market in town! Opening hours: daily from 11am until 8pm (24.-26.12. – closed). More information: www.jarmarka.org, info@jarmarka.org, +371 67211040.
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 Kristaps Zariņš’ exhibition "Faces" (0 comments)
5 January 2013 – 2 February 2013, Mūkusala Art Salon
In “Faces”, his latest solo exhibition, painter and Prorector of the Art Academy of Latvia Kristaps Zariņš will present paintings from the past two years, all of which belong to the genre of portraiture. These are Kristaps’ friends and acquaintances, that life has brought him together with. The large-format vertical canvases are dominated by the formal means of expression, characteristic of the artist – fusing realistic portraiture with planar painting. Welcome to the exhibition opening on 4 January 2013 at 5pm!
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 Defense of Doctoral Thesis by Baiba Vaska (0 comments)
On 18 January 2013 at 2pm everyone is invited to attend the offsite session of the Council of Doctorate, during which you will be able to hear Baiba Vaska’s defense of doctoral thesis “Ornamental Metal Jewellery in the territory of Latvia from the Roman Iron Age to the Renaissance”.
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 Two graduates of the Art Academy of Latvia participate in SVEART 2012 (0 comments)
Two recent graduates of the Art Academy of Latvia – Neonilla Medvedeva and Ieva Pētersone – participate in the first edition of SVEART – Saint-Vincent European Biennial Art Prize 2012 exhibition, which has brought together 44 artists from 21 countries. SVEART 2012 is a unique opportunity to discover the European art of the new generations and to get to know the participating artists. The works on show will be judged by an international jury that will decide on the biennial’s winner.
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 Grand opening of the Reconstructed Household Building of the Art Academy of Latvia in Pictures (0 comments)
Photo and video insight into the grand opening of the reconstructed Household Building of the Art Academy of Latvia, which took place on 6 September 2012. Photographer: Didzis Grodzs. Video (in Latvian): TV24. Enjoy!
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