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  1. CV

    Born in Riga, Latvia, 1985
    Lives and works in Paris and Riga


    BIENNALES


    2022, The 16th Lyon Biennale, Manifest of Fragility, Lyon, curated by Till Fellrath and Sam Bardaouil, France;
    2021, Baltic Triennial 14: The Endless Frontier, Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas and João Laia,  LT 

    SOLO and DUO SHOWS

    2023, Barely Invisible Cities, outdoor sculpture exhibition in Maruggio in collaboration with VOGA, organized by Una Boccata d’Arte 2023 and Fondazione Elpis, curated by Bruno Barsanti, Italy
    2023, Purvīša balva, duo exhibition with Kaspars Groševs, The National museum of Latvia, Riga, LV
    2022, Blue Lagoon House, duo exhibition with Kaspars Groševs, curated by Daiga Rudzāte and Žanete Skarule, Cesis Contemporary Art Centre, Cēsis, Latvia;
    2020, Movement detectors, patatoes, lamps, gallery 427, Salon de Normandy by the Community edition 2020, curated by gallery 427, Paris, FR
    2020, Same door different street, duo exhibition with Antoine Nessi, curated by Roots to Routes, Les Parallèles du sud – Manifesta 13 Marseille, FR
    2019, Your mind is a house and you live in the kitchen, curated by Tirza Kater, Marwan, Amsterdam, NL
    2019, Town at edge of garden at edge of town, duo show with Dan Walwin, gallery Post, curated by P////AKT, Kaunas, LT
    2019, Postcrete, Lower. Green, curated by Lower.Green, Norwich, UK
    2018, Still Stands and Resilient Nows, Tallin City Gallery, curated by Kim?, Estonia
    2017, Manhours in Headquarters, P/////AKT, curated by Pa////AKT, Amsterdam, NL

    2016, Gut House on The Print Level, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV

    2016, Nothing Lost, Nothing Found, gallery 427, Riga, LV

    2016, Potlatch, De Ateliers end show, curated by Ian Kiaer, Amsterdam, NL

    2016, Form X, V220, Amsterdam, NL

    2014, Monograms. Hanging above. The Case in the Cafe, Vita Kuben, Umea, SE

    2013, Indian Summer, duo exhibition with Frederique Pissuise, Gallery Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL

    2012, Crisis? What crisis?, EEA studio building, Beelitz, DE

    2013, Parallel to Vertical, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV

     

    GROUP SHOWS

    2023 INTERMEZZO, Kunsthal 44Moen, curated by Rene Block, DK
    2023 Flowers at Room Temperature, Antwerp art weekend, curated by Anna Luganovska, BE
    2023  Baltic Horizons, State Art Gallery in Sopot, Poland, curated by Mariola Balinska;
    2023 What my hand knows, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, curated by Sara Bjarland and Charlotte Mumm;
    2023 Betweenness: Technoculture and the BalticsKim? contemporary art centre, Riga, curated by Riga Technoculture Research Centre (RTRU) (Zane Onckule and Elizaveta Alexandrovna Shneyderman);
    2022, gallery 427 at Skulpturinstitut, curated by Kaspars Groševs, Vienna, Austria;
    2022, gallery 427 at City Surfers Office (SUMO Prague 2022);
    2022, Adesso no, group show, Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence, IT,
    2021, EUPavilion Eight proposals for the first European pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Mega, Milan, IT
    2021, On the Moon, San App, Riga, LV
    2021, Publiek Park, Young Friends of SMAK, Ghent, BE
    2021, Pleins Feux, Fiminco Foundation, Paris, FR
    2021, Savage 2, Drusti, LV
    2021, Bread and Salt, The Comunity Centre, Paris, FR

    2021, Freedom of Sleep, Fiminco Foundation, Paris, FR
    2021, Spatial Thoughts On Traces Of Human Presence, Omstand, Arnhem, NL
    2021, Low Moon, gallery Low, Riga, LV
    2020, Riga Notebook. Following the Lines of Wacław Szpakowski, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, PL
    2020, Contemporary Art festival Survival Kit 11, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, LV
    2019, Black Market, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV
    2019, A Very Small Window, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV
    2019,  FOAF Warsaw, gallery Wschod, Warsaw, PL
    2019, Extra-Planetary Commitment, Gallery Litost, Prague, CZ
    2019, Escapes sculptures: attentions, ruses et detours, Ecole nationale superieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette, FR
    2019, Cute Places, Palfrey, London, UK
    2019, Prospects & Concepts, Art-Rotterdam, NL
    2018, Even if it’s Jazz or the Quiet Storm, NEST, curated by Dan Walwin and Vinvent van Velsen, Den Hague, NL
    2018, Barbarian in Paris, Fondation Ricard, curated by Joachim Hamou, Maija Rudovska and Barbara Sirieix, Paris, FR
    2018, HYBRIDS, group show,  Lustwarande, Tilburg, NL
    2017, NNN, National Museum of Latvia, Riga, LV

    2017, White walkers, Tallinas 10, Riga, LV

    2017, Nose to Fees, Rib, Rotterdam, NL

    2017, Young Popes, Latvian Institute Rome, Rome, IT

    2017, Feed Your Friends, Odd, Bucharest, RO

    2017, Over Hang, W139, Amsterdam, NL

    2016, Notes on Self-Evident things, group show, Latvian National Museum of Art's, Riga

    2016, Festive town, Alexanderplein, curated by Daniel Walwin, Amsterdam, NL

    2015, Lielāks miers, mazāks miers, Railway Museum of Riga, Riga, LV

    2015, Lily’s Pool, group show, Art in General, New York, USA

    2014, New Participants, group show, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL

    2014, Aspen-Camer, group show, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV

    2014, NF Presenteert: Vrom Ee tot Be tot Zie tot D, P/////AKT, Amsterdam, NL

    2014, Vortex, Garage, Moscow, RU

    2014, NF Presents: From A to Be to See to D, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga

    2013, Openings and A Face Free From Worries, graduation show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL

     

    PUBLICATIONS

    2023 Your Time is My Time, visual contribution, https://www.moussemagazine.it/shop/your-time-is-my-time/
    2022 Baltic Triennial 14: The Endless Frontier (A Reader), Publishers: Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius and Mousse Publishing, Milano, IT
    2022 EUPavilion, research book, EUPavilion, IT
    2021, Publiek Park, publication, published by Friends of SMAK, Ghent, BE
    2021, Contemporary Lynx, magazine
    2021, 427 YEARS BOOK, Archive of 427 exhibitions and projects throughout 7 years (2014–2021), published by gallery 472, Riga
    2021, Town at edge of garden at edge of town, publication, published by P/////AKT, Amsterdam
    2020, Review by Zane Onckule, Survival Kit 11, Artforum, December issue
    https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202009/riga
    2020, Mister Motley, online
    http://www.mistermotley.nl/salon/evita-vasiljeva-if-told-correctly-it-will-centre-me-collage-2020
    2019, Delirious Lustwarande - Excursions in Contemporary Sculpture III, published by Lustwarande, NL

    2019, l'officiel art, Baltic issue
    2019, Active Art, Paraguay Press, Paris, FR
    2019, Prospects & Concepts, Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, NL

    2018, PAPERWEIGHT VOL.I, published by Popper Publishing, Riga, LV 
    2018, Blog.ks, published by The Association of Culture Institutions of Riga City Council, Riga, LV
    2018, Spoilage, published by gallery Wschod, Warsaw, PL
    2018, Thinging (Essays), published by P/////AKT;

    2018 Thinging (Exhibitions), published by P/////AKT;

    2018, Sweet Sixteen, A Short History of P/////AKT, published by P/////AKT

    2017, De Grote Nederlandse Kunstkalender 2018, Trichis Publishing B.V.

    2017, White Walkers, exhibition publication, published by gallery 427

    2017, Artviewer special feature, http://artviewer.org/special-feature-evita-vasiljeva/

    2016, if you can’t, engage, artist book, published by kim? Contemporary Art Centre

    2016, Potlatch, exhibition catalogue, De Ateliers

    2016, Lielāks miers, mazāks miers, exhibition catalogue, Biedrība Rīgas laikmetīgās mākslas muzeja satura veidošanai

    2016, Metropolitism M, May

    2015, Systems, Poper magazine, Riga

    2013, Studija, magazine, interview, Riga

     

    PRESS (not updated)

    2023, review, Intermezzo, https://ocula.com/magazine/features/intermezzo-allowing-space-for-friction/
    2022, (LV), review, Blue Lagoon, https://www.diena.lv/raksts/kd/recenzijas/pagatnes-un-tagadnes-gaismas-bruninieki.-cesu-makslas-festivala-recenzija-14284087
    2022, (LV) interview, https://arterritory.com/lv/vizuala_maksla/intervijas/26217-zinu_kurp_dosos_bet_nezinu_ka_noklusu
    2022, (LV), interview, https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/kultura/maksla/lauties-asociaciju-plusmai-saruna-ar-makslinieci-evitu-vasiljevu.a464494/
    2022, (LV) interview, https://arterritory.com/lv/vizuala_maksla/intervijas/26221-zila_lica_iemitnieki
    2020, Impulse (J or Imp), Review by Zane Onckule, Survival Kit 11, Artforum
    https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202009/riga
    2020, Salon de Normandy, Novembre magazine, Paris, FR
    2019, Your mind is a house and you live in the kitchen, Marwan, Amsterdam, NL
    https://tzvetnik.online/article/evita-vasiljeva-at-marwan
    2019, Town at the edge of garden at the edge of town, gallery POST, Kaunas, LT
    review (LT)
    https://artnews.lt/
    review (ENG)
    http://echogonewrong.com/

    2019, A Very Small Window, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga
    https://www.ofluxo.net/
    review (LV)
    https://www.diena.lv
    review (LV)
    http://www.arterritory.com/

    2019, FOAF Warsaw, gallery Wschod, Warsaw, PL
    http://moussemagazine.it
    https://news.artnet.com/
    https://frieze.com/

    2019, Extra-Planetary Commitment, group show, Litost, Prague

    https://a-desk.org
    http://www.daily-lazy.com
    http://blokmagazine.com
    https://artalk.cz
    http://artmirror.org
    https://anti-materia.org
    http://arterritory.com
    http://artishockrevista.com

    2019, The White Review, Postcrete
    review
    http://www.thewhitereview.org/reviews/evita-vasiljeva-postcrete/

    2018,Still Stands and Resilient Nows, 
    http://echogonewrong.com/still-stands-resilient-nows-evita-vasiljeva-tallinn-city-gallery/
    http://arterritory.com/en/news/7836-nothing_but_work_on_her_mind/

    2018 Helsinki International Arist Programme, Interview
    https://www.hiap.fi/evita-vasiljeva-these-heavy-human-emotions/
    2018, Hybrids, group show, Lustwarande, Tilburg, NL
    http://www.aujourdhui.pt/blog/hybrids-lustwarande
      http://artviewer.org/
    2017, White Walkers, group show, Tallinas 10, Riga, LV
         http://artviewer.org/
         http://www.ofluxo.net
         http://tzvetnik.online/
         http://echogonewrong.com
    2017, Nose to Flees, group show, Rib, Rotterdam
         http://artviewer.org/nose-to-flees-at-rib/

    2017, http://www.tique.art/paper/six-questions/evita-vasiljeva/

    2017, http://arterritory.com, short interview

    2017, Manhours in Headquarter, solo show, P/////AK, Amsterdam

                http://footnotesonart.com/

                http://tzvetnik.online/portfolio_page/evita-vasiljeva-at-p-akt/

                http://dontpostme.xyz/

                http:// www.artviewer.org

    2016, Gut House on The Print Level, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga

                http:// www.artviewer.org

                http://echogonewrong.com/

                http://arterritory.com

    2016, if you can’t, engage, artist book, published by kim? Contemporary Art Centre

                http://arterritory.com, review

    2016, Nothing Lost, Nothing Found, gallery 427, Riga, LV

                http://echogonewrong.com/

                http://www.daily-lazy.com/

                http://arterritory.com , interview

    2016, http://www.daily-lazy.com/, studio visit

     

    TEACHING, LECTURES, CONTRIBUTIONS

    2022, guest teacher, PARSONS, Paris
    2020, Sound piece, CA SENT LE SAPIN, Zone de Silence, Paris, FR
    2019, Sound piece, Quarto Mundo, Porto, PT
    2019, panel discussion, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV
    2019, Artist's talk, Ecole nationale superieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette, FR
    2018, Artist's talk,  “if you can’t, engage”, Page not Found, Den Hague, NL
    2017, Rehearsal symposium, artist talk, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
    2016, plaster casting workshop, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV
    2016, teaching, MAD design summer school, Sigulda, LV
    2015, lecture, Speculative Scenarios: Exploring the ins and outs of a public art work for Riga, Art in Public Space symposium, Riga, LV

    EDUCATION

    2009-2013 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, BFA, Amsterdam, NL

    2005-2009 The Art Academy of Latvia, BA, Visual Communication, Riga, LV

     

    RESIDENCIES

    2023, Kunsthal44 Moen, Moen, DK
    2020, Fondation Fiminco, Paris, FR
    2018, Sundaymorning@ekwc, NL
    2018, HIAP, Helsinki, FI
    2014-2016, De Ateliers, residency, Amsterdam, NL

    GRANTS

    2020, Established artist’s support grant, State Culture Capital Foundation, Riga, LV

    2019 The Stipendium for Established Artists, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
    2017 Stipendium Emerging Artists, Mondriaan Fonds, NL

    2013-2019 State Culture Capital Foundation, various grants, Riga, LV

    2014-2016 Beurs praktijkverdieping, Mondriaan Fonds, NL

    COLLECTIONS

    National Museum of Latvia, private collections

    NOMINATIONS

    Purvīša Balva 2023, Latvian National Museum of Art

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