Agnese Kurzemniece

I have a strong academic background, but over the last 10 years, oil paints have been replaced by acrylic paints. However, the interest in exploring humans in the broadest sense has remained unchanged. The images and themes are capacious and ambiguous, I have my own set of limited symbolic images, among wich the woman clearly plays a key role. It has unique, recognizable proportions and distortions.
Through my artistic practice, I try to understand and feel some of the general patterns that nature and man live by. How we influence each other, how we shape each other, what are these archetypes, which explains our deepest interactions.
Living through my personal experience and at the same time observing the world around me - people and nature, I find visual and poetic parallels embodied in universal schemes. Where landcapes are a lyrical scenographic background for the versatility of the inner world of man.
I am concerned about the beauty and tragedy of life, the order and constancy of its flow, in which the brevity and uniqueness of each individual moment is drowned. Through symbolism and surreal scenes, I try to comprehend the world in which I am and of which I am a part.
Pieces of my work are featured in private collections ...

EDUCATION
2012. Non-toxic Intaglio Workshop, Capileira, Spain
1996. - 1998. MA studies in workshop, Department of Graphic Art, Art Academy of Latvia
1991. - 1996. BA studies, Department of Graphic Art, Art Academy of Latvia
1991. exchange program at Darhems Art school in Britain.
1984. - 1991. J. Rosenthal Riga Art School.

SELECTED:
2021 Biennale “Marina 2021”, Jurmala City museum, Latvia
2020 Family Show “Synergies”, VEF Culture Palace, Latvia
2019 Family Show “Synergies”, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art centre, Latvia
2018 “100 IN LATVIAN ART”, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art centre, Latvia
2018 “RADU-RAKSTI”, Gallery MUSEUM LV, Latvia
2017 Group Show, “RUDENS 2017”, LMS art gallery, Riga, Latvia
2017 Group Show, “Anxiety”, Dailes galeria, Šauļi, Lithuania
2017 Group Show, Miniprint “Border”, “Juras Varti”, Ventspils, Latvia
2017 Family Show “TOGETHER / onwards”, Art gallery “Juras Varti”, Ventspils, Latvia
2016 Family Show “TOGETHER / onwards”, Art gallery “LAIPA”, Valmiera, Latvia
2016 Family Show, “TOGETHER”, Jurmala City Museum, Jurmala, Latvia
2016 Group Show, “RUDENS 2016. KAS IR MĀKSLINIEKS?”, LMS art gallery, Riga, Latvia
2015 Group Show, “Kamera”, Jelgava, Latvija
2014 Group Show, “AthensArt International Arts Festival”, Bispgården, Sweden
2014 Group Show, “Skanošais”, Sigulda, Latvia
2014 Group Show, “Rudens. Nākotne sākas šodien”, Riga, Latvia
2013 Group Show, “Mākslinieka monologs”, Riga, Latvia
2013 Group Show, “Lielais mazajā”, Valmiera, Latvia
2012 Group Show, AthensART Odysseia, Corfu, Naxos, Greece
2012 Group Show, Athen...