11.09. - 14.09.2025

Flughafen Tempelhof - Hangar 7

Tempelhof Damm 45, 12101 Berlin, Germany

Maksla XO Gallery at POSITIONS BERLIN Art Fair 2025 –

Solo show: Ieva Iltnere "My Own Room"

Booth - C07

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Maksla XO Gallery presents at POSITIONS BERLIN 2025 – a solo exposition “My Own Room” by IEVA ILTNERE - one of the most notable contemporary painter in Latvia.

Ieva Iltnere’s work is characterized by a delicate challenge. She has consistently embraced the centuries-old medium of painting, yet her approach remains thoroughly contemporary. In her works, Ieva Iltnere blends aestheticism, ornamentality, and beauty with a documentation of the era, irony, and social commentary. Her paintings provoke the mind, refusing to allow one to fully trust the senses – everything is perfect, but nothing is in its place. For saving the world and each individual, today she calls upon an angel dressed in camouflage with airplane wings – a messenger who is not limited by substance. A part of the invisible, parallel reality. “There are no rules or laws. Angels are gathered, Saint Sebastian, the reincarnation of Eve, and the Nymphs by Lucas Cranach. Perhaps a miracle will happen, and those expelled from paradise will prevent the Apocalypse” – Ieva Iltnere.

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, the artist 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)

Maksla XO gallery - Ilze Žeivate. Ieva Iltnere - My Own Room 

Maksla XO Gallery - ZILKENS Best Booth Award - POSITIONS Berlin 2025

Support:
Ltd “Mākslas galerija Māksla XO” on the 10th of April 2024 signed an agreement No 17.1-1-L-2024/189  with the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia on receiving support for export assistance under the project “SME Innovative Business Development” co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.