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Ieva Iltnere (1957)
Born in Riga, Latvia
1982 Graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia, Department of Monumental Painting
Experience in art pedagogy:
Since 2008 Associated Professor at the Department of Painting at the Art Academy of Latvia
2003-2008 Docent at the Department of Painting at the Art Academy of Latvia
1999-2003 Lector at the Department of Painting at the Art Academy of Latvia
Selected solo exhibitions:
2024 "My Own Room", Maksla XO Gallery, Riga / Latvia*
2022 "Embroidered Selfie", ART VILNIUS'22, Maksla XO gallery, Vilnius / Lithuania
2022 "Embroidered Selfie", Maksla XO Gallery, Riga / Latvia*
2020 "Access to Secret", Valmiera Museum, Valmiera / Latvia
2020 "Evening of Diapositives", Maksla XO Gallery, Riga / Latvia
2018 "Sum", Maksla XO Gallery, Riga / Latvia
2017 "Implant", Maksla XO Gallery, Riga / Latvia
2015 "Babel", Maksla XO Gallery, Riga / Latvia
2014 “Every Day”, Malpils Cultural Centre Exhibition Hall, Malpils / Latvia
2014 "Not only, but also", Maksla XO Gallery, Riga / Latvia
2011 "Obsession", Riga Gallery, Riga/Latvia
2010 "Collection of emotions", Riga Gallery, Riga / Latvia
2008 "Beautiful fragile nature", Riga Gallery, Riga / Latvia
2007 "Eight Rooms", Riga Gallery, Riga / Latvia
2004 "The Happy Childhood", Riga Gallery, Riga / Latvia
2003 "Ieva's Painting", Gallery NoMi, St. Petersburg / Russia
2003 "My Room", Gallery Centrs, Riga / Latvia
2002 "Stories", Riga Gallery, Riga / Latvia
2001 "Ieva Iltnere's United Images", Gallery Daugava, Riga / Latvia
1999 "Papers and Canvases", Gallery Daugava, Riga / Latvia
1998 "Paintings of Paris", Gallery Daugava, Riga / Latvia
1997 "Oil", Gallery Bastejs, Riga / Latvia
1994 "School", Art Museum Arsenāls, Riga / Latvia
1993 Riga Gallery, Riga / Latvia
1993 Gallery G&G, Riga / Latvia
1992 "Works", Art Museum Arsenāls, Riga / Latvia (together with Jānis Mitrēvics)
1992 "Four New Paintings", Gallery Kolonna, Riga / Latvia
1989 Gallery Baltasar, Gothenburg / Sweden (together with Ivars Poikāns)
Selected group exhibitions:
2024 "Dear figure, whom did you hang out with last night?", Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
2024 "We Don't Do This. Intimacy, Norms and Fantasies in Baltic Art", MO Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 "Don't Cry! Feminist Perspectives in Latvian Art: 1965-2023", Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia*
2023 "QUO VADIS? 7th Riga International Textile and Fibre Art Triennial", Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga, Latvia*
2023 "Fluctuations", Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils, Latvia
2022 POSITIONS BERLIN 2021, Maksla XO Gallery, Berlin / Germany*
2022 VIENNACONTEMPORARY 2022, Maksla XO gallery, Vienna / Austria
2021 "Ieva Kraule-Kūna. Where My Cards Lay" (featuring works by Ēriks Božis, Andris Breže, Ieva Iltnere, Ojārs Pētersons and Sarmīte Māliņa), Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
2021 POSITIONS BERLIN 2021, Maksla XO Gallery, Berlin / Germany*
2021 "Still Life of Things", Maksla XO Gallery, Riga / Latvia
2020 "(un) determined" XVII International Vilnius Painting Triennial, the Applied Arts and Design Museum of the Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius / Lithuania
2019 "Humans", Maksla XO Gallery, Riga / Latvia
2019 POSITIONS BERLIN 2019, Maksla XO Gallery, Berlin / Germany*
2019 „Without Fetish”, Rumene Manor, Kandava / Latvia
2019 "Indulis Zarins / Ieva Iltnere / Envija Medne" - from the cycle "LMA100", MVT Summerhouse gallery - Esplanade Rainis Monument, Riga / Latvia
2019 ART VILNIUS 2019, Maksla XO gallery, Vilnius / Lithuania
2018 "PORTRAIT IN LATVIA. 20th CENTURY. Facial Expressions", Latvian National Museum of Art, Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia*
2018 VIENNACONTEMPORARY 2018, Maksla XO gallery, Vienna / Austria
2018 "Art Doesn't Separate, Art Unites!" - Global Center for Latvian Art (PLMS), Cesis / Latvia
2018 ART VILNIUS 2018, Maksla XO gallery, Vilnius / Lithuania
2018 "Yard", the Hall of the Art Academy of Latvia, Riga / Latvia
2017 "Generation", Liepaja Museum, Liepaja / Latvia
2017 "New Acquisitions of the LNMA. The 21st Century", the Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2017 "Jewellery by Artists: From Picasso to Koons. Diane Venet’s Collection", Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2017 "TOP in formation. Exhibition of Zuzāns Collection", Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia*
2017 "Experimental sidestep", Gallery Putti, Riga / Latvia*
2017 "Hyperrealism. Movement Manifestations in Latvia", Latvian National Museum of Art, Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga / Latvia
2017 ART MADRID '17, Maksla XO Gallery, Madrid / Spain*
2017 "Abundance and Ephemerality. Still Lifes from Finnish and Baltic Collections", Kadriorg Art Museum, Tallinn / Estonia
2016 "The Coordinates of Myths", the Mūkusala Art Salon, Riga / Latvia
2016 POSITIONS BERLIN 2016, Maksla XO Gallery, Berlin / Germany*
2016 "Inconvenient Gender" - The Art Academy of Latvia, Riga / Latvia
2015 POSITIONS BERLIN 2015, Maksla XO Gallery, Berlin / Germany*
2015 "My Heart is a Tiger" - Art Station Dubulti, Dubulti, Jurmala / Latvia
2015 "Captive Beauty in Miniature", Maksla XO Gellery, Riga / Latvia
2014 „Perspective of the Solar System”, the Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2014 ART. FAIR, Maksla XO Gallery, Cologne / Germany*
2014 „The Amber Era”, Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga / Latvia
2014 POSITIONS BERLIN 2014, Maksla XO Gallery, Berlin / Germany*
2013 "The Private Process", Exhibition of Latvian Art Academy painting department professors, Hall of the Art Academy of Latvia, Riga / Latvia
2013 "Roza / Pink", Maksla XO Gallery, Riga / Latvia
2012 "Nine Artists From Latvia NewYork-Washington-Chicago-Riga", Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2012 "Changing Perspectives" 15 years of the ECB’s art collection, European Central Bank, Frankfurt / Germany
2012 "The Magic of Light", Museum Of Decorative Arts And Design, Riga / Latvia
2011 7th International Contemporary Art fair VIENNAFAIR, Vienna / Austria
2011 "Dense Space", the Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2011 "Is It That He Does Not Seek The Truth, But Does Want To Influence?", Riga Art Space, Riga / Latvia
2010 14th International Contemporary Art Exhibition "Art Moscow", Central House of Artists, Moscow / Russia
2010 ''Territory of Art'', Volkhonka Fine Art Centre, Moscow / Russia
2010 ''Golden works'', the Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2009 13th International Contemporary Art Exhibition "Art Moscow", Central House of Artists, Moscow / Russia
2009 "Vilhems Purvitis' Award", the Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2009 "Icons of nowadays”, gallery "Alma",(curator Artemy Troitsky), Riga / Latvia
2008 12th International Contemporary Art Exhibition "Art Moscow", Central House of Artists,
Moscow / Russia
2008 Rauma Biennale Balticum 08 "Flower Power", Rauman Taidemuseo, Rauma Art Museum/ Finland
2008 "Views 6" Belarus Museum of Contemporary Art Minsk, Belarus
2007 11th International Contemporary Art Exhibition "Art Moscow", Central House of Artists, Moscow/Russia
2006 10th International Contemporary Art Exhibition "Art Moscow", Central House of Artists, Moscow / Russia
2005 9th International Contemporary Art Exhibition "Art Moscow", Central House of Artists, Moscow / Russia
2004 8th International Contemporary Art Exhibition "Art Moscow", Central House of Artists,
Moscow / Russia
2004 "The Rape of Europe", Eskilstuna Art Museum, Eskilstuna / Sweden
2003 "Labyrinth", Gallery Vartai, Vilnius / Lithuania
2003 "Abstractionism in Latvian Painting", the Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2002 "Nichts Persönliches", Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen / Germany
2002 "Latvia. Surprising Art from the 20th Century", Zvolle City Museum, Zvolle / The Netherlands
2002 "Gentle Fluctuations", Exhibition Hall Arsenāls of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2002 "Witnesses of an Age", Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2002 "Small Picture", Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York / USA
2001 "Colour", Riga Gallery, Riga / Latvia
2001 "Interim", Exhibition Hall Arsenāls of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2001 "Metropolis. Riga", Stock Exchange Building, Riga / Latvia
2001 Painting Biennial, Väsby Konsthall, Stockholm / Sweden
2000 "Baltic Art. Contemporary Paintings and Sculptures", National Arts Club, New York; Gallery of the International Monetary Fund, Washington / USA
2000 "The Social and the Private. 1984–2000", the Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
2000 "The Naked Artist", Riga Gallery, Riga / Latvia
1999 "Past-Present-Future", Gallery Egelund, Copenhagen / Denmark
1999 "The Joy of Being", Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
1999 Art Days in the Berga Bazārs, Riga / Latvia (organized by Riga Gallery)
1998 The 2nd World-wide Latvian Contemporary Art Exhibition, the Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
1998 "Ventspils Transit Terminal", the 6th Annual Exhibition of the SCCA–Riga, Art Propaganda Train, Regional Museum of History and Art, Ventspils / Latvia
1998 Latvian Art Exhibition, Architects Hall, Town Hall, Prague / Czech Republic (organised by Gallery Daugava)
1998 "Spike Island '98", Spike Island, Bristol / UK
1997 "Latvian Contemporary Art", Grande Salle de l'Aubette, Strasbourg; Maison du Danemark, Paris / France
1997 "Celebrating the Still Life", Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York / USA
1997 "Ballet", Riga Stock Exchange Building, Riga / Latvia
1997 "John, Julio, Juris and Willy", Club Slepenais Eksperiments, Riga / Latvia
1996 "Another Picture", Riga Gallery, Riga / Latvia
1996 "Women Painting Women", Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York / USA
1996 "Geo-Geo", the 4th Annual Exhibition of the SCCA–Riga, Pedvāle Open Air Art Museum,
Sabile / Latvia
1996 "Art After a Century", within the framework of the International Conference "Art Nouveau
in the Baltic Area. Time and Space", Riga Gallery, Riga / Latvia
1996 Latvian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Exhibition Hall of the Estonian National Library,
Tallinn / Estonia
1996 "23 Artistas de Letonia", Sala Millares, Madride / Spānija (organised by Gallery Daugava)
1995 "Monument", the 3rd Annual Exhibition of the SCCA–Riga, Photography Museum of
Latvia, Riga / Latvia
1995 "Crossing Over Consortium Exhibition: America-bound Exchange II", Embassy of Finland
in USA, Washington /USA
1994 "State", the 2nd Annual Exhibition of the SCCA–Riga, the Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
1994 "Les Artistes Lettons – Riga", Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Chamallieres / France
1994 "Rauma Biennale Balticum '94", Rauma Art Museum, Rauma / Finland
1994 "Latvia is Europe – Five Artists from Riga", Galerie im Margarethenhof, Bonn / Germany
1993 "Sensation No. 30", the Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
1993 "Peintures Lettonnes du XXeme Siecle", Paris, Bordeaux, Strasbourg / France
1992 "Baltiske Billeder", Herning Art Museum, Sollenrod Museum, Sollenrod / Denmark
1992 "Karyatiden", Frauen Museum, Bonn / Germany
1991 "My Time – Pilot", Art Hall Den Fries, Copenhagen / Denmark
1991 "Fiatal Müveszek Rigaból", Contemporary Art Museum Mücsarnok, Budapest / Hungary
1990 Action "Gentle Fluctuations", Exhibition Hall Latvija, Riga / Latvia
1990 "Latvia –20th Century Somersault. 1940–1990", Exhibition Hall Latvija, Riga / Latvia
1990 "The 1st World-wide Latvian Art Exhibition", the Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
1989 "Contemporary Soviet Painters from Riga", Ed. Nakhamkin Fine Arts Gallery, New York /USA
1989 "Riga – Lettische Avantgarde", Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel; Exhibition Hall Weserburg, Bremen / Germany
1989 "Paintings. I. Iltnere, S. Krastiņa, J. Mitrēvics, Ģ. Muižnieks, E. Vērpe, A. Zariņa", Art
Museum Arsenāls, Riga / Latvia
1989 "Kunst fra Lettland", Birkerod Kunstforening, Copenhagen / Denmark
1988 "Riga – Lettische Avantgarde", Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin / Germany
1988 "Post-Traditionalism", Central House of Artists, Moscow / Russia
Ieva Iltnere works were shown at the following Art Fair:
VIENNACONTEMPORARY (2022, 2018), ART VILNIUS (2022, 2019-2018), ART MADRID (2017), POSITIONS BERLIN (2022-2021, 2019-2014), ART FAIR / Cologne (2014), VIENNAFAIR (2011), ART MOSCOW (2010-2004)
Selected Awards:
2017 Order of the Three Stars – an order awarded for meritorious service to Latvia
2003 For solo exhibition “Stories” (Riga Gallery) – “Latvia Artists` Union Award of the Year” in the nomination “For the best solo exhibition at galleries in Latvia”
1986 Medal and Diploma from Latvia Artists` Union
Works in Public collections:
Latvian National Museum of Art (previous title – State Museum of Art), Riga / Latvia
Artists' Union of Latvia Museum, Riga / Latvia
The future Latvian Contemporary Art Museum, Riga / Latvia
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey / USA
Ludwig Museum, Aachen / Germany
ECB’s Art Collection, Frankfurt / Germany
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow / Russia