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LEONARDS LAGANOVSKIS (1955)
Born:
1955 Riga, Latvia
Education:
1979 The Department of Set Design, the Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Solo exhibitions:
2023 Ellipsis. Maksla XO gallery, Riga, Latvia
2022 The Portfolio of a Femaile Gallerist. Kim?, Riga, Latvia
2018 The Near and the Distant. Maksla XO gallery, Riga, Latvia
2017 HE TO (together with Pavel Ziumkin). Gallery Astronauts, Riga, Latvia
2017 Six Vonagal, Archives. National Library of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
2016 Atlant. Mukusala Art Salon, Riga, Latvia
2015 Through the Looking-Glass. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2014 Hensel and Gretel. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2012 YEZZZ !. Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
2011 Fetishists of All World, Unite!. Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
2011 Retrospection. Gallery Riga, Latvia
2010 VIENNAFAIR Solo-show - the International Contemporary Art Exhibition. Wienna, Austria
2010 L.Laganovskis. Gallery Riga, Latvia
2008 Normal. The Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2007 8th of March. Vodka, Sex, Perfume, Riga Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2004 Rights to desire. Gallery Riga, Latvia
1997 Stomack of Gallery Girl. LN Gallery, Riga, Latvia
1997 Standarts. Gallery Riga, Latvia
1997 One Week in Paris. Ivonna Veiherte’s Gallery, Riga, Latvia
1996 Saga. Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
1994 Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
1994 Happy People Laboratory. Dirty Windows Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1993 Lecterns. Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
1993 100 and one drawings. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
1992 Works 1988-1992. IfA-Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1992 Two rooms. Wewerka & WeissGalerie, Berlin, Germany
1992 Private Collection. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. Germany
1992 Art of 20.Century. Art Center Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
1991 Reiterna House, Riga, Latvia
1991 Dole History Museum, Doles sala, Latvia
1990 Exhibition Hall Jāņa sēta, Riga, Latvia
1990 My first TV. Wewerka & Weiss Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1984 Exhibition Hall of House of Sience, Riga, Latvia
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2022 ES_TEXT. Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2021 Insulation - Concert hall Lielais Dzintars, Liepaja, Latvia
2021 Still Life of Things - Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2019 Talk to Me. Akiereyi Art Museum, Akeireyi, Iceland
2019 VIENNACONTEMPORARY - Maksla XO gallery, Wienna, Austria
2018 PAPER POSITIONS BERLIN 2018 - Maksla XO gallery. Berlin, Germany
2018 Portable Landscapes. Latvian Exile and Emigre Contemporary Art Exhibition. Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2018 The Future State. The Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2017 New Acquisitions of the LNMA. The 21st Century. The Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2014 Solar systems perspective. The Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2014 Riga poetic map. Orbit Group. Tobacco factory, Riga, Latvia
2014 16th Tallinn Print 'Triennial. LITERACY-ILLITERACY. Tallinn, Estonia
2014 Riga Photo Month. Northern State Gymnasium. Riga, Latvia
2013 Red Room. Gallery Brivibas 75, Riga, Latvia
2012 Grafik aus Lettland. Grafik Museum Stiftung Schreiner, Bad Steben, Germany
2012 Aerospace. Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
2012 To be or not. Gallery Brivibas 75, Riga, Latvia
2012 TEXT = PICTURE. kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
2011 He is not seeking the truth, he wants to influence?. Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
2011 Tallinn Print Triennial. For Love Not Money (Cat.). Tallinn, Estonia
2011 Hybrid flights, Artist as a photographer. The Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art , Riga, Latvia
2010 Prigov: Assembly point. [III Festival of Contemporary Art. YES. Prigova] National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2010 Days of Art exhibition "shunt". Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
2010 Without prejudice to the Soviet era art! Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
2010 A smiling lady on a tiger. Kunst aus Riga, Städtische Galerie Bremen, Latvian Art Exhibition, Bremen City Gallery, Bremen, Germany
2010 14th International Contemporary Art Exhibition "Art Moscow", Central House of the Artists, Moscow, Russia
2010 And the other directions, explorations and artists in Latvian from 1960 to 1984. Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
2009 Live art / levende scene. Kunstnerneshus, Oslo, Norway
2009 6 positions of Latvian Art. Minsk-Vitebsk-Gomel-Bobruisk-Mogilev, Belarus
2008 Art Moscow. Moscow, Russia
2007 Art Moscow. Moscow, Russia
2007 Tallinn Graphic Triennial. Tallinn, Estonia
2006 Art Moscow. Moscow, Russia
2005 Art Moscow. Moscow, Russia
2004 Tallinn Graphic Triennial. Tallinn, Estonia
2004 Poles Apart-Poles Together. Venice, Italy
2004 Art Moscow. Moscow, Russia
2003 Mare Balticum. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001-2002 Imagination-Romantik. House of Romantik, Jena, Germany; the Brno House of
Arts, Brno, Slovakia; Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland
2001 Tallinn Graphic Triennial. Tallinn, Estonia
2000 Darueber hinaus. Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
2000 Die Wille geschehe... Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
1999 interim. Künstlerhaus of Mecklenburg, Schloss Plüschow, Germany
1998 European Art Forum. Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
1998 Holocaust in Latvia. Bundestag, Bonn; Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
1998 Tallinn Graphic Art Triennale, Tallinn, Estonia
1998 The 2nd World-wide Latvian Contemporary Art Exhibition. Art Museum Arsenāls, Riga, Latvia
1998 Ventspils. Transit. Terminal, 6th Annual Exhibition of the SCCA–Riga, Art Propaganda Train, Regional Museum of History and Art, Ventspils, Latvia
1997 European Art Forum. Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
1997 STAD(t)T-ART, Kunst in 56 Homoeopathischen, Germany
1997 Pearls Vol. V. Dinner, sounds & flowers. Gallery Parkhaus, Berlin, Germany
1996 Die Galerie, Wewerka Galerie 20. Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, Germany
1996 Bekannt(-)Machung. Ostsee-Biennale, Rostock, Germany
1996 European Art Forum. Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
1995 Memento. Art–History–Memory. State Gallery, Prag, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
1995 Postconceptual Painting, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany
1995 Landscape in 90ies. Koblenz, Schloss Burgk, Saale, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
1994 Memento. Contemporary Berlin Art, Prague City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
1994 Schone Aussichten. U-bahnhof Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany
1994 Kunst:Sprache. Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany
1993-1994 Memory of Images. Kiel, Rostock, Riga, Vilnius, Berlin, Gdansk, Copenhagen
1993 Auflage Objekte, Zellermeyer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1992 Terra de nadie. Pavilion of Andalusia, EXPO ‘92, Seville, Spain
1992 Rauma Biennale Baltikum ’92. Rauma, Finland
1992 Reflexion. Walter Philips Gallery, Art Center Banffa, Canada
1992 Avantgarde & Kampagne. Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
1992 Minimal Curating, Stadtisches Kaufhaus, Leipzig, Germany
1991 Reflection. The Banff Center for the Arts, Canada
1991 Rauma Biennale Balticum´92. Rauma, Finnland
1991 Avantgarde und Kampagne. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
1991 Ars Baltica. Kiel, Riga
1991 Von Angesicht zu Angesicht. Kiel, Berlin, Germany
1990 Auflage Objekte. Wewerka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1989 Riga – Lettische avantgarde. Berlin, Kiel, Bremen, Germany
Selected grants and scholarships:
2004 Latvian Prize of Culture, Riga, Latvia
2004 13th Tallinn Print triennial Certificate, Tallinn, Estonia
2004 Bank of Estonia Prize, Tallinn, Estonia
2001 12th Tallinn Print triennial 1st Prize, Tallinn, Estonia
1999 Art Center of Mecklenburg - Vorpommern Grant, Germany
1996 Culture Foundation Grant, Berlin, Germany
1995 Berlin Culture Senate Grant, Berlin, Germany
1993-1994 Kunswerke e.v. Grant, Berlin, Germany
1992 The Banff Center for the Arts Grant, Canada
1992 Landeskulturzentrums Salzau Grant, Kiel, Germany
1991-1992 Künstlerhaus Bethanien Grant, West Berlin, Germany
Works in public collections:
Latvia National Museum of Art, Riga / Latvia
Latvian Contemporary Art Museum Collection, Riga / Latvia
Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin / Germany
Kupferstich Kabinett, Bremen / Germany
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen / Germany
Reha-Klinik Lubben, Brandenburg / Germany
Artphilein Foundation, Vaduz / Liechtenstein
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey / USA
Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn / Estonia
Eesti Pank, Tallinn / Estonia
National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow / Russia
S.P.Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Arts, St. Petersburg / Russia