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krista.dzudzilo@gmail.com
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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 DemakovaAt 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 SOURCES, Cēsis Art Festival
2017 "PATĒTISKĀ. PAR 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
