CV
Roman Korovin
Born in 1973, Voronezh, Russia
Education
1997 MA, department of Graphic Art, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
1995 BA, department of Graphic Art, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
1991 Janis Rozentals Riga High School of Art, Riga, Latvia
Since 1996 Director at advertising and music video studio “Vilks Post Production” in Riga, Latvia
2002-2000 Assistant of gallerist Valerie Monroe Shakespeare, Fulcrum Gallery, SoHo, New York, USA
Solo exhibitions
2022 "2020. 2021", Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2021 "Lives and Deaths", Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland
2021 "Letter" - together with Semjons Hanins, culture space Smiļka, Riga, Latvia
2020 “My Family Photo Album” - Copenhagen Photo Festival, Refshaleøen Exhibition Park, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020 “Road Between a Pine Tree and a Bush”, Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2018 “Satori of Master Wu and Master Lee”, Latvian National Museum of Art, Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia
2016 “((())) On Ice”, CUB Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2015 “Dirty Yellow”, Kalnciema Quater gallery, Riga, Latvia
2013 “The Black Glove”, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art Office gallery, Riga, Latvia
2013 “Basket Shaped Flame”, pop-up Culture Space „jūrK”, Jurkalne, Latvia
2012 “Basket Shaped Flame”, Kalnciema Quater gallery, Riga, Latvia
2011 “Snow and the Meat Balls”, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
2009 “Winter – Summer, Winter – Summer – Death”, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
2006 “Right in the Middle”, Andrejsala / Orbita Project Space, Riga, Latvia
2004 “Pay Half and Run!”, Ivonna Veiherte Gallery, Riga, Latvia
Selected group exhibitions
2020 POSITIONS BERLIN Art Fair 2020, Maksla XO Gallery, Berlin, Germany*
2020 Rotterdam Photo Festival (serie of works “Frozen Caspar”), Rotterdam, Netherlands
2019 Purvitis Prize 2019, exhibition of the selected nominees, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga , Latvia. Curator: Daiga Rudzate
2019 “Car For Sale” - “Outlands” - international contemporary art festival “Survival Kit 10.1”, The former Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry of the University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. Curators: Solvita Krese, Inga Lace, Shumesh Sharma, Angels Miralda
2018 „Outlands. Leere Stelle | Tukšā telpa” - international contemporary art festival “Survival Kit 10.0, Riga Circus, Riga, Latvia. Curators: Solvita Krese, Inga Lace, Shumesh Sharma, Angels Miralda
2018 “Mind the Gap”, - Rohkunstbau XXIV project, Lieberose, Denmark. Curator: Mark Gisbourne.
2018 “Looking Outside, Looking Inside”, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils Latvia. Curators: Alnis Stakle, Arnis Balcus
2017 “Extension.lv.: Meeting with Ourselves”, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Curator: Kristina Romanova
2017 “Facts and Clarifications”, Riga Photomonth 2017, Riga, Latvia. Curator: Arnis Balcus, Alnis Stakle
2016 “Contemporary Landscape”, Cesis Art Festival, Cesis, Latvia. Curator: Daiga Rudzate
2015 “Ornamentalism. The Purvītis Prize. Latvian Contemporary Art”, Collateral Events Program of the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennaledi Venezia, Venice, Italy. Curator: Victor Misiano
2013 “Berlin-Riga. Scores for Indeterminate Places”, Kanepe Culture Centre, Riga, Latvia. Curators: Ieva Astahovska, Antra Priede
2011 “FAX-art”, South London Gallery, London, UK. Curator: Harald Szeemann
2011 “Zero Point”, VEF Art Space, Riga, Latvia. Curator: Odrija Fisere
2010 “F/stop” – 4th International Photography Festival, Leipzig, Germany. Curator: Kristin Dittrich
2010 “Museum”, - international contemporary art festival “Survival Kit 2”, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia. Curator: Iliana Veinberga
2010 “Comments”, kim? Contemporary Art Centre / FK Gallery, Riga, Latvia. Curator: Vladimir Svetlov (Orbita)
2010 “Illusion of Inclusion or Inclusion of Illusion”, Gallery Vartai, Vilnus, Lithuania. Curator: Olga Temnikova, Danute Gambickaite, Egle Juoceviciute, Jolanta Marcisauskyte-Jurasiene, Iliana Veinberga
2009 “Private, Latvian Contemporary Photography”, Latvian National Museum of Art, Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia. Curator: Alise Tifentale
2008 “Private, Latvian Contemporary Photography”, Centre for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow, Russia. Curator: Alise Tifentale
2008 “Is the Medium the Message? Latvian Contemporary Photography”, Andrejsala, Latvian Contemporary Art Centre project space “Canteen” and the body workshop, Riga, Latvia. Curator: Līga Lindenbauma
2008 “Baltic Pop, Contemporary Art from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia”, Giedre Bartelt Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Curator: Giedre Bartelt
2007 “Critically in Between”, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Art-Athina Art Fair, Athens, Greece. Curator: Victor Misiano
2006 “Emergency Biennale in Chechnya” - series of traveling exhibitions of international contemporary art, Riga (LV), Paris (FR), Tallinn (EE), Grozny (RU) etc. Curators: Evelyne Jouanno, Riga exhibition curated by Ieva Kalnina
2005 “(Un)dressed. Body in the Baltic Photo Art”, Giedre Bartelt gallery, Berlin, Germany. Curator: Giedre Bartelt
2003 “Abstractionism in Latvian Painting”, Latvian National Museum of Art, Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia. Curator: Natalija Sujunsalijeva
2000 Williamsburg Art Center, New York, USA
1996 Valdemars Helmanis’ Gallery MMM, Riga, Latvia
1995 Gallery Ars Moderna, Riga, Latvia
1994 Latvian National Museum of Art, Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia
1991 “With Love to Ainbinder”, Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
Books
2018 “Satori of Master Wu and Master Lee”, published by the Institute for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
2014 “Rock”, published by Orbita, Riga, Latvia
2011 “Garden Close to the Sea”, published by Em Agency, Moscow, Russia
2009 “Ziema – vasara, ziema – vasara – nāve / Winter – Summer, Winter – Summer – Death”, published by Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
Awards and nominations
2018 Nominee of the Purvitis Prize 2019
2007 Latvian Annual Photography Award
2006 Latvian Annual Photography Award
Works in public collections
Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art collection, Riga, Latvia