Arta Raituma

Arta Raituma (born 1996) is a multimedia visual artist from Latvia currently residing and working between Portugal, Latvia and India. Arta has a strong academical background.

In her artistic practice, she focuses on exploring the sublime in nature, rites of passage, and threshold situations. Raituma engages in creative placemaking, working with communities and investigating the fragility of relationships that can manifest as invasive, co-dependent, or symbiotic interactions between natural and urban environments and their inhabitants.

The core medium of Raituma’s daily practice is wood burning, using experimentally developed techniques often combined with painting and organic materials as complementary elements for on-site installations. Additionally, she incorporates documentary photography and performance to create a concurrent narrative that aims to alchemize materials and perception. In her latest works, Arta has been developing a cinematic language through collaborations with filmmakers.

2019 – 2021 Art Academy of Latvia, MA degree, painting department

2018 – 2019 Accademia di Belle Arte di Venezia, BA degree, Venice, Italy (Erasmus+)

2015 – 2019 Art Academy of Latvia, BA degree, painting department

2025 Group exhibition A Minha Casa, curated by David Willis, Rua de Sao Bento 275, Lisbon, Portugal
2025 Solo show Kodols at contemporary art gallery Look, Riga, Latvia
2024 Group exhibition Undomesticated Ground at cultural center Studio Seco, Lisbon, Portugal
2024 Group exhibition Campfire organised by the art platform and foundation Myma, New York, United States
2024 Publication in Latvian contemporary art magazine Mākslas žurnāls, August edition for the theme ‘new materialism’, Riga, Latvia

2024 Duo exhibition Vegetal Matters with artist Nina Fraser at Canelas train station/cultural center, Estarreja, Aveiro, Portugal
2023 Group exhibition Chroma Flora, at Estufa Fria botanical garden, Lisbon
2023 Group exhibition at Refraction Festival, Community HQ, as part of NEARcon 2023 events, Lisbon
2023 Solo exhibition Axis Mundi at MAD Marvila gallery, Lisbon
2023 Artist residency at Canelas train station and Casa-Museu Egas Moniz Museum in a collaboration with artists Nina Fraser and Mario Afonso, funded by the municipality of Estarreja, Portugal

2022 Group exhibition Na Rua, Cultural Center of Caldas da Rainha, gallery Espaço da Concas, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2022 Participation in art event Lisbon Art Weekend 2022, at MAD Marvi...