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Art Gallery MuseumLV and Culture Center Grata JJ
10 June – 29 July 2023.
From June 10 to July 29 2023 Art Gallery MuseumLV and Culture Center Grata JJ will host an ambitious solo exhibition of the artist Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja "Stamp. The image of Latvia. Versions of Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja". Such an extensive exposition is intended to show the author's long-term and successful cooperation with Latvijas Pasts. During thirty years the artist has made around 100 stamps with very diverse themes for this company. These are stamps in the series “National Costumes”, “Christmas”, “Mittens”, “Ethnographic Jewelry”, “National Armed Forces of Latvia”, “Saeima”, “Lighthouses of Latvia”, “Protection of Nature”, “Outstanding Latvian Scientific and Cultural Personalities”, “Museums of Latvia”. Stamps made by the artist can be recognised as vivid messages or miniature stories about our country, our values and ideals. Therefore, Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja can rightly be considered as one of the leading creators of the visual image of Latvia as a country.
At the same time this exhibition is intend to show the proccess of creating the stamp. Therefore, sketches, drafts, original drawings, prints, blocks of issued stamps, enlarged digital copies of them, first-day envelopes with stamps, photographs, as well as some items depicted on stamps from the collections of the Riga History and Shipping Museum, the Riga Porcelain Museum and the National Costume Center “Senā Klēts”,as well as private colletions will be represented at this exhibition.
The exhibition will also show a small part of the children's book illustrations created by Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja. The stamps made by the artist dedicated to this theme will complement the series of collages for her own written and illustrated book "Mole and silver shoes" (Zvaigzne ABC, 2020), as well as for the children's book "Miracle Day" (2022) written by Ruta Svaža and dedicated to the postal theme, published by Latvijas Pasts.
At the opening of the exhibition, the event of the presentation of the stamp dedicated to the Song Festival, made by the artist Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja, is planned.
About the artist.
Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja was born on January 10, 1963 in Jelgava. Graduated from the Latvian Academy of Arts with a specialty in graphics (1988), received a master's degree in humanities (2003). Areas of activity – estamps, book illustrator, advertising and graphic design, packaging and coin design.
Participates in exhibitions since 1986. Member of the Artists' Union of Latvia since 1993. She has held solo exhibitions in Riga (portrait graphics; 1994), in the “Senā klēts” gallery (a series of stamps dedicated to folk costumes, 1997), in the Jelgava History and Art Museum (together with V. Dzērve, the painting cycle “Dorian's travels”, 2021).
Jury member of the Zelta ābele book competition, as well as the international Baltic States book competition (2014, 2020). Received international recognition as a book illustrator, including 1st prize at the 21st book design and illustration competition (1988), diploma at the 2nd Riga Miniature Graphics Triennale (1990); diploma at the book art triennial Vilnius-90; diploma and prize at the Baltic graphic design triennial in Sweden (1993); multiple winner of the Most Beautiful Book of the Year (2001–2005) competition; main prize in the book art competition Zelta ābele (2008), diploma in the Riga Picture Book Quadrennial (2014).
In the collection coin series of the Bank of Latvia, the design was created for the coins “Krišjānis Barons”, “Krišjānis Valdemārs”, “Rainis” and “Rainis and Aspazija”, which won an award in the international coin competition “Coin Constellation 2016”.
She has made around 100 stamps for Latvijas Pasts and the artist's cooperation with Latvijas Pasts continues.
https://epadomi.com/kulturasvestis/izstade/19052023-aicina_apmeklet_izstadi_pastmarka_latvija
https://www.la.lv/pasta-baloza-aplidotie-makslas-darbi
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ĢIRTS BORONOVSKIS
Born on 24 March 1963, Riga
Professional Education:
1981 Jaņa Rozentāla Art High School
1987 Art Academy of Latvia, Graphic Art department, prof. Pēteris Upītis
Graduation work: Book graphic design, Illustrations for Andrejs Upītis book “The Wheels of Time”
Qualification: graphic artist, teacher of fine art
Work Experience:
from 1986 until now senior designer at the National History Museum of Latvia
Additional work:
2005–2007 “Mākslas fabrika No. 7” Ltd., an artist
1999–2004 “Lido” Ltd., an environment artist
1995–1999 Magazine “Biznesa Partneri”, an artist
1993–1998 Newspaper “Latvijas Zeme”, an artist
1989–1993 Riga Children’s Art School (now Māra Muižniece’s Riga School of Arts), an art teacher
1985–1988 Allaži eight-year school, an art teacher
Permanent museum expositions and exhibition design:
2022/2023 “Crimplenomania”, the project and implementation, the National History
Museum of Latvia.
2021 “Baltic Appeal to the United Nations”, the design and implementation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia;
“Colourful Latvia”, the project and implementation, the National History Museum of Latvia.
2019/2020 “11 heroic stories. the Military Order of Lāčplēsis, its holders, Lāčplēsis
Day”, the project and implementation, the National History Museum of Latvia.
2019 “Ogre Station”, Ogre History and Art Museum, a constant exhibition, the project
and implementation;
2018 The Salaspils Memorial Ensemble, the exhibition project and implementation.
2017 Ķekava Local History Museum, main exhibition, the project and arrangement;
“Storm Museum” in Jurkalne, the project and implementation.
2016 “On the Way to the Latvian Nation”, the project’s implementation, the National History Museum of Latvia;
“Our Stories, No One Else’s” – the History Museum of Tukums Town, the exhibition and implementation;
2015 “Version–Latvian”, the design and implementation, the National History Museum of Latvia;
2014 “Amber – the Jewel of the Baltic Sea”, the project’s implementation, the National History Museum of Latvia, Minsk (Belarus) and Kiev (Ukraine) History Museums.
2011 “The 2nd LATVIAN RIFLE BRIGADE BATTLE AT THE BANKS OF THE RIVER MAZĀ JUGLA”, an exhibition at the Cultural Heritage Centre of Ikskile County;
“Tinuzi Manor”, the realization;
“Rumbula. 1941: Anatomy of a Crime”, the realization, the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia;
Arrangement of the temporary main exhibition of the Ogre History and Art Museum;
Arrangement of the main exhibition of J. Rozentals Saldus Museum of History and Art;
The layout of the main exposition of the Turaida Museum Reserve in the West Building of the palace.
2007 “Latvian archaeology”, the realization, Warsaw and Biskupin (Poland) Archaeological Museum;
“Money in Latvia” – the realization, Vienna (Austria) Art History Museum and Berlin (Germany) “Bode Museum”.
2006 Realization of the main exhibitions, J. Rozentals Saldus and Ogre History and Art Museums;
“My damp houses”, the realization, Ligatne Nature Park;
“The Baltic Sea”, the realization, the Latvian Nature Museum.
2005 The design and implementation of the main exhibition of Turaida Museum Reserve;
Exhibition arrangement of Ogre History and Art Museum;
Participation in the development and implementation of exhibition design of the Bank of Latvia Visitors’ Centre.
2003 “Castle mounds. The Cours. The Latgalians. The Hatter's Story”, The History Museum of Latvia.
2001 Latvia/France joint project “History, culture and traditions of Latvia”, Museum of Mankind, Paris, France.
2000 Latvia/Sweden joint project “Three Stars – Three Crowns”, the Arsenāls Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art.
1999 “The Latgalians”, the State Historical Museum of Russia, Moscow.
1995 “The Second World War – Remembrance and Warning”, the Latvian War Museum.
1991 “The Saga of Latvia”, the State History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden.
Book Graphic Design:
Illustrated and created book design for the publishing house “Zīlīte” – ”Atgadījums manā dzīvē.
100 bērnu stāsti” (“An incident in my life. 100 children’s stories” arranged by M. and R. Rungulis), for the publishing house “Sprīdītis” – J. Baltvilks ”Vējlukturis mežā: stāstiņi bērniem par dabu” (“Windlight in the forest: stories for children about nature”), J. Wayne ”Diena, kad nogāzās griesti” (“The Day the Ceiling Fell Down”), for the publishing houses “Liesma”, “Zvaigzne” et al.
Group Exhibitions:
Participate in exhibitions since 1985.
Participation in various group exhibitions – “Young Artists Exhibition”, “Autumn”, ”Spring” etc., in Latvia and abroad.
Solo exhibitions:
2002 LANDSCAPES – Pastel Painting, Gallery “Čiris”, Riga
1998 LANDSCAPES, together with photographer Leons Balodis, Exhibition Hall of the History Museum of Latvia
1994 LANDSCAPES – Pastel Painting, Exhibition Hall of the History Museum of Latvia
https://spletnik.lv/ru/latviesu-kultura/1123-girts-boronovskis-platekrana-ainava-pasteli.html
https://www.diena.lv/raksts/kd/kd-afisa/girta-boronovska-izstade-_platekrana-ainava_-14296587
https://pilsetas.lv/pasakumi/girta-boronovska-izstade-platekrana-ainava
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On the second floor of the gallery MuseumLV, continues Julia Eresko's personal exhibition "SOS. Life Matters” Part II. The installation " Abandoned city' " illustrates the destructive action of our aggression against each other in everyday life and its role in the destruction of life on Earth. It is a call for peace, to look "for" and not "against" for the continuation of peaceful coexistence.
"We created installation 'Abandoned city' as a space, devastated with our own hands to demonstrate a result of human aggression. Created to evaluate the damage, to estimate the extent of the loss, to feel an impending disaster and to remember the instinct of self-preservation so, that it never happens to the real world. "JJ/2022
Stepping over the threshold, you enter a deserted city. As you walk down the silvery white floor of the narrow hallway, you freeze for a moment as you gaze at the cold neon illuminated red circle centered on what appears to be a simple key. A key whose turn gives the start command to the deadly SS-20 weapon. The photo of this rocket opens up to the full height of the room above the audience, allowing you to experience the terrifying moment of the launch of the rocket and make you raise your eyes higher to the edge of the concrete fence. This wall of Soviet times, surrounded by barbed wire rings, is recognizable by any adult Latvian. Its beauty and relevance is given by graffiti. The author of the whole artistic surface of the wall, is known not only in our country but also far beyond as an anonymous graffiti artist KIWIE. The genre of his art is street graffiti as a testimony of time and events, as a direct, open and loud artistic statement that cannot be missed. The expression, which cannot be passed by with your eyes closed, cannot remain indifferent, cannot be answered anonymously to itself, about its attitude towards this world. KIWIE listens to everyone, his art aimed on passers-by emotions awakening is recognizable and has to remain as a message to our children, prompts us to look for answers to the question: what each of us is creating to fill the Earth's noosphere with the will to live, to develop and to thrive.
The project “Abandoned city.” brought together not just professionals, but truly like-minded artists, intellectuals, who try through their work to show that a world without people has no meaning, blind and soulless, useless and dead. Neon artist Jānis Brolišs, graffiti artist KIWIE with his artwork “Blind”, Vlad Černovs - the “System pulse” light installation, Alex Veingarts - a video work “Bunker” and “Eternal sunset”, the audiodizainer of the project - Ilya Kalinin took part in the creation of the installation “Abandoned city”.
“Portal”, “Event horizon”, “Key to pandora’s box”, “Life matters” are created by an artist, meistar of neon Janis Brolišs (neonlightroom). His objects, which are made of glass pipes and are installed into artist’s works, surprises with its complexity in working with fragile material, with the precision of execution of clear lines and the effect of the power of light left on the viewer. In four large - scale works glowing neon pipes create an illusion that opens a portal to artist’s cosmos, to the paralel reality that exists between light and darkness, while the key framed in a red circle that launches a deadly weapon becomes a key element in a worl-class catastrophe.
Julija Eresko (JJ) received art education at the Boston Art Institute, the Riga College of Design and the British Academy of Art in Rome, majoring in painting and graphics. She developed her creativity in the field of visual arts, interior design and furniture design, has participated in numerous art exhibitions both in Riga, Jurmala, Daugavpils and outside Latvia. In 2017 Julia Eresko founded the Grata JJ cultural center and the MuseumLV art gallery in Riga (LV) and Switzerland, and in 2018 - the Grata Art Foundation, being the author and scenographer of countless projects of the MuseumLV gallery both in Latvia and abroad up to this day manages the gallery and cultural center Grata JJ.
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SOS. Life matters
“I capture the Present as an artefact; I place it into the Future and offer to contemplate a picture where the only deleted variable of the equation is the human being. The being, which has become an artefact.
While not rejecting the Present or creating a different reality, I invite you to glance into a credible Future and to appreciate the loss – the uniqueness of human civilization. A civilization that has created science and religion, art and medicine, technologies and sports... Civilization, whose very existence is dashing to a thoughtless act of self-destruction.
I suggest the formation of one's own opinion regarding the value of each human life, the achievements and uniqueness of the existence of the contemporary civilization, and while relying on the experience and the heritage from the past, to choose the direction towards life. Each life matters. Any life matters now.”
Exhibition “SOS. Life matters” is located on two floors of gallery MuseumLV.
In the halls of the first floor of the gallery there are paintings made in various techniques using both classical and modern materials, as well as original video works by JJ and objects created in collaboration with neon master Janis Brolišs.
On the second floor of exhibition “SOS. Dzīvei ir nozīme”, the author presented the installation “Abandoned city”, which was supported by hundreds of drawings by the children of Riga, as well as KIWIE, an artist working in the street graffiti genre, created his work in the gallery. Each guest has the opportunity to become a co-author of this project, leaving their inscription on the wall as a memory of their stay in this part of the city.
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Julija Eresko (JJ) received art education at the Boston Art Institute, the Riga College of Design and the British Academy of Art in Rome, majoring in painting and graphics. She developed her creativity in the field of visual arts, interior design and furniture design, has participated in numerous art exhibitions both in Riga, Jurmala, Daugavpils and outside Latvia. In 2017 Julia Eresko founded the Grata JJ cultural center and the MuseumLV art gallery in Riga (LV) and Switzerland, and in 2018 - the Grata Art Foundation, being the author and scenographer of countless projects of the MuseumLV gallery both in Latvia and abroad up to this day manages the gallery and cultural center Grata JJ.
With gratitude for the creativity and support to: Irēna Bužinska, Laura Tuča, Jānis Pūga, Kristīne Martinova, Didzis Grodzs, Jevģenija Šafraneka, Jānis Brolišs, Aija Rulle, also for translation Dita Lūse, Irēna Petrova, Ilmārs Zvirgzds and for video Aleksandrs Veingarts.
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Charity project GRATA BALVA 2022 “#illusory#reality” in support of Ukrainian refugees.
26.08.2022. – 15.10.2022.
Art Gallery MuseumLV and Cultural Center Grata JJ
Andreja Pumpura Street 2, Rīga, LV – 1010
Working hours: Tue. – Fri: 11:00 – 19:00, Sat.: 11:00 – 17:00
The GRATA AWARD is an international project that has become a tradition of MuseumLV gallery and the Grata JJ cultural center, inviting professional artists to create original artworks every year, thereby encouraging creativity. The aim of the project is to provide a platform for artists, for mutual creative communication and exchange of experiences, as well as to introduce a wider audience to these artist’s work. The GRATA PRIZE 2022 visual art competition this year is taking place in a special format - as a charity competition. All the funds that the cultural center GRATA JJ gallery MuseumLV will get from the sale of the works of the competition will be directed as material assistance to Ukrainian refugees in Latvia.
Every year the organizers of the competition choose the theme of the competition, this year it is "#illusory #reality". Everyday we create a reality based on our own illusions. The reality of the modern world, by itself constantly interacting, destroying and creating new conditions, knocks us out of the personal spaces subordinate to our nature and throws us into a world consisting of society's desires and illusions. The creative illusory space is a special world that belongs to each of us, reflecting our beliefs, tastes, concerns, sense of beauty, hopes and dreams. The creative illusory space is a special world in which we exist parallel to the real world.
GRATA AWARD in visual art has two prizes - 500 EUR each. All proceeds of the MuseumLV gallery from the sale of works, including the first of two gallery prizes of 500 euros, will be donated to "Young Folks Lv",
The fate of the second prize is determined by the vote of the exhibition visitors. In this way, the organizers hope to achieve greater public interest in visual art and its processes, as well as attract a wider audience to the creative environment. To ensure as fair as possible audience voting, all works are exhibited with numbers, without authors' names. Voting takes place in person throughout the duration of the exhibition, as well as on the gallery's MuseumLV website.
During the exhibition, all works are offered for sale to interested parties. Juris Ģermanis, Aleksejs Naumovs, Dita Lūse, Vadims Markevičs, Linda Kozule, Anita Paegle and Ilze Muceniece-Adamaite have already become nominees and winners of previous years. All information about the GRATA charity fund can be found here https://museumlv.com/about_us/ , the GAF "Art helps vision" charity exhibition and the "Art helps vision" charity auction.
GRATA PRIZE competition exhibitions:"Mistērija. Rituālā māksla"
"Spēka avots"
“#artefakts #piektācivilizācija”
Other resources on the Internet:
rus.jauns.lv
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