KATRĪNA MARTA RIŅĶEArtist Statement
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Katrīna Marta Riņķe °1997 is a Latvian visual artist painting with light, steel and found objects. Reflecing on human nature and time shaped environment, her work is poetic and at the same time monumental.
KASK School of Arts Ghent Master's degree graduate, currently pursuing artistic research within HERITAGE LENS project together with ISSP Riga, Cobertura Photo, Officine Fotografiche Rome and Fotofestiwal Lodz. Photographic reserach focuses on the fluid terrains of Latvia's largest lake Lubāns and the dissolvement of immaterial heritage during climate change.
Client
ProjectYear
Heritage Lens
Dissolving Landscapes artistic research2025 - 2026
Ezera Skaņas
Poem to Waves water sculpture 2025
ORBĪTA
Strenči Sonification station earth recordings 2025
VARES
Akmentiņi —Pebbles — Veerised water sculpture2025
Cēsis Old Brewery
Exhibition Memory of Light with painter Līva Graudiņa 2025
Cēsis Exhibition Hall
Vidzeme Artists’ Days Climate Challenge exhibition 2025
Riga Art Space
How to (re)Write Light exhibition with Baltic Analog Lab 2024
Homo Novus
Y: SLOW CINEMA Artist Film “AGNESE KRIVADE: They have emptied out my shoulder“ 2024
Latvian National Museum of Art and SAVĀ VAĻĀ
Artist text author for solo exhibition by painter Andris Eglītis “Some Instances of Encounters between Imagination and Matter“, with SAVVAĻA and writer and artist Agnese Krivade2024
KASK School of Arts
Master's Work: Being Turns Towards Turning Away 2024
LCCA
Exhibition text “Red Sea and Purple Sand” School of Art Criticism with art critic Santa Hirša 2024
Latvian Artists’ Union Gallery
Exhibition design and text author of the annual visual arts exhibition “Artists’ Days 2024. Looking Up” 2024
KASK School of Arts
Bachelor's Graduation Exhibition2023
KASK School of Arts
MAP#130 exhibition with artist Teodora Oita 2022
KASK School of Arts
Shortfilm with Émilien Dubuc: Memoires ostreicoles II 2022
PROCESS Festival
Experimental film festival visual identity 2021-2025
Baltic Analog Lab
Short film “Père au Ciel” 2019-2025