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  1. krista.dzudzilo@gmail.com

  2. n the second and third decades of the 21st century, Krista Dzudzilo's works have reached the pinnacle of Latvian art. All her skills in various fields—drawing, painting, video, installation, and scenography—have been acquired and refined in Latvia. This not only demonstrates perfect craftsmanship, which is rarely encountered elsewhere today, but also showcases her ability to conceptualize and precisely express the most complex phenomena, with art itself standing out like a giant smoldering volcano.

    Krista Dzudzilo is one of the few intellectual artists in Latvia with outstanding knowledge and sensitivity in all academic fields of art, whether it be theater, dance, literature, or, above all, music.

    In the digital age, Krista Dzudzilo immortalizes images and her feelings about them, as well as about people she may not have even known, capturing them just as in the past, when it was not shameful to talk about beauty in art and an artist could afford not to be an apologetic and moralizing know-it-all. If in the 17th century a Vanitas painter's uncertainty was hidden behind the frame of the painting, for Krista Dzudzilo, it is found within the work itself. Her works arrange themselves like prayer beads in a harmonious string, transferring their materiality to the perfection of the spiritual world.


    Helēna Demakova

      

     

     At a time when the image is no longer an all-powerful tool of art, Krista Dzudzilo's works serve as model images—metaphors that can be interpreted in diverse and opposing ways: as genre scenes or sacred rituals, as documentary narratives or fiction, as loops that conceptualize repetition or as poetic Fluxus. The universal resonance of these meanings across her body of work inspires awe-filled admiration for the intoxicating nature of art.

    Inga Šteimane 

      

     

    Solo Exhibitions

      

    2024              "all the possibilities that existed" Kogo Gallery, Tartu, Estonia

    2023              "I remember everything and then I forget everything" Gallery Alma, Riga, Latvia

    2023              "All time" Sofijas street, Ventspils, Latvia (with Reinis Dzudzilo)

    2020              "Alma Mater" Gallery Alma, Riga, Latvia (with Reinis Dzudzilo)

    2020               "mīklaini kā spogulī" Galerija Daugava, Latvia

    2019               "ZRwhdZ. Rīga" Contemporary Art Center kim?, Riga, Latvia, (with Reinis Dzudzilo)

    2019               "lūdzu, neapstājies" Rīgas Mazākā galerija, Fon Stricka Villa, Rīga, Latvia

                            (with Reinis Dzudzilo)

    2017               "Sestā Pasaules Radīšana" Latvian National Museum of Art, Exhibition Hall Arsenāls, Rīga, Latvia

    2015               "Skaidrība" Mākslai vajag telpu, Vasaras māja, Rīga

    2015               "Viena skatītāja apmeklējums" Latvian National Museum of Art, Exhibition Hall Arsenāls, Rīga, Latvia

                            (with Reinis Dzudzilo)

    2015                “kim* *kas ir mīlestība?” Contemporary Art Center kim?, Riga, Latvia,

                            (with Reinis Dzudzilo)

    2013                “Nepārejošs” Merķeļa steet 17, Riga, Latvia

    2012                “Tukšā telpa” Kaņepes Kultūras centrā, Riga, Latvia

         

    Author of performances

      

    2022              "SILENCE FALLS" Cesis Art festival

    2021              "TAGADNE (TIME PRESENT)" Hanzas Perons

    2020               "VIENS" Koncertzālē Latvija

    2018               "36 MINŪTES" Tīrkultūra UNEXPECTED SOURCESCēsis Art Festival

    2017               "PATĒTISKĀPAR REDZAMO VALODU" HomoNovus

         

    Artist for theatre performances  

         

    2022             "Dogs heart" Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre  

    2021             "Degunradži" Dailes Theatre

    2020              "Ļoti labas minūtes" Dailes Theatre

    2020               "Vienaldzības Gadsimts" Liepaja Theatre

    2018               "Klīstošais Holandietis" The Latvian National Opera

    2018               "Baladīna" Valmiera Drama Theatre

    2018               "Salome" The National Theatre of Latvia

    2017               "Karalis Līrs"  Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre 

    2016               "Pērs Gints"  The National Theatre of Latvia 

    2015               "Portreti. Vilki un Avis"  Liepaja Theatre

    2015               "Uguns un Nakts" The National Theatre of Latvia

    2015                "Zelta Zirgs" Siguldas Opera Festival

    2015                "Vīlas" The Latvian National Opera

    2015                "Korpuss" Riga Congess centre, New hall

    2014                "Vasarnieki" Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre 

    2013                "Sarkangalvīte” The National Theatre of Latvia

    2013                "Raudupiete” The Valmiera Darma Theatre

    2012                "Purva bridējs” The National Theatre of Latvia

    2012                “MACBETS. MONO” Andrejosta, at an Independent Theatre

    2012                "Indrāni" Mikhail Chekhov  Riga Russian Theatre

    2011                "izrāde GALS” The National Theatre of Latvia

    2011                "Kucēni” Dirty Deal Teatro

    2011                "Heda” Andrejosta, at an Independent Theatre

    2011                "Graņonka”  Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre

      

    Selected Group Exhibitions

    2024            "sleep, my carnation. sleep, my rose." in "Formative years" Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga

    2023             "as close as possible" in "Wearable Memory and Body Techniques" Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga

    2022             "Clarity", "I remeber everything" NADA, Miami, USA

    2021             "You have made me like glass" "ALMA gallery in Padure manor", Padure

    2021             "Touching the sun" "Flying Closer to the Sun", Art Festival Cēsis

    2021              "IN³" London Design Biennale, Somerset House, UK

    2021              "ZRwhdZ.LNMM" final for “Purvīša balva 2021” Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia

    2020              "Metamorfozes" Opera square, LNOB

    2020              "Silvija" "Sieviete bez īpašībām" Jurmala, Latvia

    2020              "Clarity" "LNMM video collection" webpage of Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia

    2019               "Black Market" Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga, Latvia 

    2019               "ZRwhdZ.RIGA" Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga, Latvia

    2019               "ZRwhdZ" Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Czech Republic

    2019               "NordArt" Büdelsdorf, Germany

    2017                "Love is Blind II" "NNN"  Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia

    2017                "Vladislvas Goļikovs II" “Blocker” gallery Alma, Riga Latvia

    2017                “Hyperrealism” Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenāls, Riga, Latvia

    2016                "Memento" ”Conservatism and Liberalism” Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 2016, Riga, Latvia

    2016                “Notes on Self-Evident Things” Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia

    2015                “A BIGGER PEACE, A SMALLER PEACE”, Latvian Railway Museum, Riga, Latvia

    2015                “Summer House Closing”, Art Needs a Space, Art Station Dubulti, Jurmala, Latvia

    2015                "THE SELF. HISTORY OF THE LATVIAN CONTEMPORARY ART: NSRD,

                            KRISTA DZUDZILO, LĪGA MARCINKEVIČA", National Library of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

    2014                “Young painter prize”, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania

    2014                "GREETINGS HEAD!", Latvian Railway Museum, Riga, Latvia

    2013                “Chemin de fer”, Varsaw Art Academy, Varsaw, Poland

    2013                “Primavera” gallery TVDART, Berlin, Germany

    2012                “Migration”, Brussels, Belgium

         

    Awards

     

    2022              "Richard Wagner Scholarship 2022"

    2021               Award for “Best visual concept” by the Latvian Theatre Union for the performance   "Degunradži" in Dailes Theatre

    2020                “Creativity Scholarship” State Cultural Capital Fund

    2019                "Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2019"

                            award for the Best Curatorial Concept of an Exhibition for the work "ZRwhdZ".

    2019                "National Design Award of Latvia" for the exhibition "Burning Conscience"

    2016                Nomination for “Purvīša balva” Latvian contemporary art award for the video instalation “Clarity”

    2016                "Spēlmaņu nakts" Latvian Theater Award for "Best Costume Artists" for the performance "Uguns un nakts" and "Portreti. Vilki un avis" 

    2016                “Golden potatoe”, newspapers “Diena” award in culture for opera “Le Villi”

    2016               “Golden potatoe”, newspapers “Diena” award in culture for opera “Golden Horse”/“Zelta Zirgs”

    2012                 Borisa Bērziņa Grant 2012

            

    Works in collections

         

    2023                6 drawings from “I forget everything" in the collection of Latvian National Museum of Art

    2022                Video installation "Clarity" in the collection of Luc Freche

    2021                Installation “ZRwhdZ” in the collection of Latvian National Museum of Art

    2020                Installation “LOVE IS BLIND II” in the collection of Latvian National Museum of Art

    2017                Paintings “1987” in the collection of Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art

    2016                Video installation “Clarity”, in the collection of Latvian National Museum of Art

         

    Education

      

    2013 – 2016      Master's degree in the Faculty of Audi-Visual Media Art, 

                              Department of Visual Comunication, Art Academy of Latvia 

    2009 – 2013      Bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Visual Arts, Department of Painting, Art Academy of Latvia

    2005 – 2009      Jana Rozentals Riga Arts School

    1996 – 2005      Riga Center Language School