Alvine Bautra

Alvīne Bautra (b.1990) is a Latvian contemporary painter. The portrait painting compositions embody the feeling of movement in slow motion. Her painted faces are in ceaceless intermediate states. These are snapshots between what was and what will be. The zooming on the faces or the seemingly calm figures are never frozen because the state of peace is utopian. The figures dance within themselves, allowing the movement of the soul, giving themselves to a peculiar trance when revelation occurs unconsciously.

The artist considers movement as a metaphor of human being, the human multi-layered nature, diversity and also uncertainty. Through the paintings she outlines the complicity of human mind and body in the existence.

In 2019 graduated from Art Academy of Latvia, MA in Painting. She enriched knowledge at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee in Germany (2014) and at Estonian Academy of Arts (2018). In 2018 she received Brederlo – von Sengbusch art prize. In 2019 and 2020 she has been nominated as one of the finalists in painting contest Young Painter Prize. In 2019 included in art book “100 Artists of the Future” and in 2020 “100 [HUNDRED] Photographize Best Selected 2020 Vol. 01”.

2017- 2019 Art Academy of Latvia, department of painting, MA
2018 Estonian Academy of Arts, department of painting (exchange studies)
2014 Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee (exchange studies)
2012–2016 Art Academy of Latvia, department of painting, BA
2006–2010 Riga Building College, department of architecture

Solo exhibitions (selection)
2024 “Solar”, hotel Zeit, Ligatne, Latvia
2021 “Transs and Dance”, Jurmala City museum, Jurmala, Latvia
2021 “Adaptation machine”, Look Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2019 “Anonymous”, „KAR“ gallery, Pils str. 2, Kuldiga, Latvia
2019 “Random existence”, Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2017 „Human creatures”, Goethe Institut Riga, Torņa str. 1, Latvia

Group exhibitions (selection)
2025
"Baam Affordable Art Market" 22.-25.May, Provinzstr. 40-44, Berlin, Germany

2024
“Quantum power”, 15.11.-27.12., Novira Plaza, Riga, Latvia
"Baam Affordable Art Market" 22.-24.11., Arena Market, Berlin, Germany
“Kuboshow Art Fair”, Herne, Germany
"Baam Affordable Art Market" 7.-9. June, Provinzstr. 40-44, Berlin, Germany
“Tips&Tricks. Tips for survival.”, 25.05.-15.06., Look Gallery, Riga, Latvia
“BODIES #2”, 29.03.-27.04., Into Gallery, Kurfürstendamm 210, Berlin, Germany

2023
“Baam Affordable Art Market”, 8.-10. december, Potsdamer str.124, Berlin, Germany
“Bodies” 7.-9. december, Into Gallery, Kantstrasse 127, Berlin, Germany
“Haam Affordable Art Market”, 27.-30.october, Neues Amt Altona, Hamburg, Germany
“Our Own Values: The Centennial Lottery Art Collection”, 9.june- 26. july, Valmiera Museum, Latvia
“Baam Afford...