Today, on June 11, the award ceremony of the winners of the “Purvītis Prize 2021” took place, in which the main prize was won by the artist Amanda Ziemele for the solo exhibition “Quantum Hair Implants”. The prize for lifetime contribution went to the artist Maija Tabaka, and the prize for the audience vote organized by the portal “Delfi” went to the artist duo Skuja Braden.
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The award ceremony took place in the courtyard of the Latvian Academy of Arts, in the presence of LNMM director Māra Lāce and the award patron, SIA “Alfor” chairman of the board Jānis Zuzāns.
The seventh Purvītis Prize in the jury was awarded to the artist Amanda Ziemele for the solo exhibition “Quantum Hair Implants” “Kim?” At the Center for Contemporary Art (21.02. – 07.04.2019).
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“Kim?” Is a meeting with experimental painting, which is still true to the “canvas / oil” component. It finds extensions in the interplay with the exhibition space, atypical frame formats and the interrelationships of the paintings. The visual grammar in the Nordic works consists of color areas or line strokes. Inspired by the psychology of unknown depths, the abstraction of data visualizations in her paintings is endowed with the magic of the “narrative of cabinet of curiosity.” The northern exhibition seeks to become attentive, knowledgeable, knowledgeable, and knowledgeable at the same time. that it is not possible to depict anything truly significant or essentially true at all, “this is how Amanda North ‘s exhibition is described by curator and art theorist Kaspars Vanags.
Eight artists and artists’ associations were nominated for the “Purvītis Prize 2021”: Skuja Braden for the exhibition “Samsāra”, Valdis Celms for the kinetic sculptures “Rhythms of Life” and “Positron”, Krista and Reinis Dzudzilo for the work “ZRwhdZ”, Kaspars Groševs for multimedes installation “Other Room”, Ieva Kraule-Kūna and Elīna Vītola for the project “Artists’ Crisis Center”, Rasa and Raitis Šmiti for the work “Atmospheric Forest”, Aija Zariņa for the solo exhibition “Wake up, wake up once, the free spirit” and Amanda Ziemele for the solo exhibition “Quantum hair implants”.
Continuing the tradition started two years ago, this year the award was presented for the lifetime contribution to art received by Maija Tabaka – for the trust in lifelong painting and maintaining the spirit of figural painting in Latvian art. The decision on which artist to award the prize is made by the organizing committee of the “Purvītis Prize”. The financial amount of the prize is 10,000 euros (excluding taxes).
Meanwhile, in the audience voting organized by the portal “Delfi”, which took place from May 28 to June 9, the artist duo Skuja Braden won with the exhibition “Samsara” at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design.
Solvita Krese, the head of the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, describes it as follows: “Skuja Braden ‘s creative activity in the Latvian art scene was a bright, independent and unusual phenomenon, which has become especially noticeable now, in line with world feminist narratives and the renaissance of ceramics as a form of creative thought. In the exhibition “Samsara”, grotesque wires and portraits of contemporaries, skulls vibrating in macabre moods and a parade of moralizing virtues and vices, as well as prostitutes, geishas, dogs and politicians, grouped and condensed with baroque scope and power. not shy away from trivial banalities that at times seem to go beyond good taste. “
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The winner of the “Purvītis Prize” was chosen by an international jury of seven professionals: LNMM director Māra Lāce; Patron of the Museum and Purvītis Prize, Jānis Zuzāns, Chairman of the Board of SIA “Alfor”; curator, long-time creative director of the Münster sculpture project and one of the founders Kaspers Königs; Daniel Hag, Creative Director of the Cologne Art Fair; Sergei Popov, one of the board members of the Russian Gallery Association, founder of the gallery Pop / Off / Art, art historian and curator; art collector, SAM Art Projects (Paris) founder Sandra Egediša; curator, director of Kestner Gesellschaft (Hanover) Adam Budak.
The “Purvītis Prize” is awarded once every two years to one artist or group of artists who represent Latvian art with outstanding work, which is deeply connected with the events of its time and which has a link between modern life, spiritual ideals and absolute values. The winner of the award is the author who has received the highest evaluation of an expert and a specially formed international jury. The prize is 28,500 euros (including taxes). “Purvītis Award” is the largest award in the field of visual art in Latvia.
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