Katrīna Neiburga
EDUCATION:
2001–2002 Latvian Academy of Art, Department of Visual Communication; MA
2000–2001 Latvian Academy of Art, Department of Visual Communication; BA
1999–2000 Guest student of the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm, Sweden
1996–1999 Latvian Academy of Art, Department of Art Education
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS:
2013 1kg of culture, most surprising performance "Dauka", Latvian National Opera
2013 The Great Music Award, Best Performance, "Cantando y Amando" in Latvian National Opera
2012 Wiels artist residence in Brussels
2011/12 Hiap artist residence in Helsinki
2008 The winner of Purviša prize
2008 candidate of Ars Fennica
2005-2006 resident in Cite des Arts, Paris
2002 Artists’ Union of Latvia Award of the Year for the best multimedial project “The 6th element” (with Monika Pormale)
2001 Artists’ Union of Latvia Award of the Year for creative novelty in visual arts – for the project “T-shroom
EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2014
Exhibition "Telling Tales", Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
"Riga 2014" opening, Tasting at the Central Market, video installation, Latvia
"Riga 2014" opening, video for concert "Riga Dimd", Latvia
2012
Graden Affairs, video installation, Thetre Festival "Spielart", Munich, Germany
Video set design for "150th Anniversary Concert of the LNO House", Latvia
Festival "Homo Novus", open air performance "Lost Garden", video, Rīga, Latvia
Sergei Prokofiev's comic opera "The Duenna", set design, Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, Perm, Russia
Exhibition Alternativa 2013: Till tomorrow!, Gdansk, Poland
2012
Exhibition "Latvian videoart- performance and movement", France
Video design for play "Kabbalah Secrets", at Latvian New Theater, Riga
Set design for opera "Dauka", at Latvian National Opera
Personal exhibition "The memory of Things", gallery Kim?, Riga, Latvia
Video set design for opera Lucia di Lammermoor, Latvian National Opera, Riga
Personal exhibition “Press House”, Trafo gallery, curator Livia Paldi, Budapest
Transformations, Modernist architecture in Eastern Europe, video screenings, Sweden
Memory of image, museum of Kuldiga, Latvia
Personal exhibition “Press House”, Cable factory gallery, curator Marita Muukkonen, Helsinki
Set design and video for concert ”Cantando di Amando”, Latvian National Opera, Riga
2011
Video set design in collaboration with Maris Legzdiņš and Ksenja Zake for a music group
“Instrumenti”, Arena Riga, Latvia
Video movie Good Luck at Mains d’oeuvres, Paris, France
Light festival “Staro Riga”, multimedia project Velocinema, Riga, Latvija
Video work “Home made video”, exhibition “0 point”, Riga, Latvia
Global House Video Screenings at Gwangju Design Biennale 2011, China
Festival White Nights, video audio performance with Gas of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Survival kit 3, documentary installation “Press house”, Riga, Latvia
Set design for concert Strāvoklis, Riga, Latvia
Video clip “Press House” for Gas of Latvia
2010
Set designe, video scenography for opera “Eugen Onegin”, Latvian National Opera, Latvia
Artist for play “Deli Dance” , New Latvian Theater, Latvia
Survival kit 2, project Wedding, Riga, Latvia
The Way, international art exhibition, Riga airport, Latvia
Laba daba, music and video festival, Latvia
Keine Angst, group exhibition, Leipzig, Germany
Take care, Baltic art exhibition, Cēsis, Latvia
Personal Exhibition In Reality, Latvian Railway museum, Riga, Latvia
Exhibition Rīga dimd, Rostock Arthalle, Germany
2009
Set designe, costumes for play “Playing Victim”, New Latvian Theater, Latvia
Light festival Staro Riga, light installation “Preses Nams”, Latvia
Survival kit 1, project Leiputrija, Latvija
Ad oculus, international exhibition, Moscow
2nd Art Biennial in Katowice, Poland
Ars Fennica exhibition in Kumu, Estonia
Video set designe for opera “Lucia de Lamermur”, Music theatre K. S. Stanislavskovo i
V. I. Nemirovicha-Danchenko, Moscow
Exhibition “The Purvitis Prize”, museum Arsenals, Latvija
2008
Images in the night, exhibition in Grand Palais, Paris
Personal exhibition, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
Exhibition Ars Fennica 2008, Amos Anderson art museum, Helsinki, Finland
Contemporary art exhibition “Beauty”, Cesis, Latvija
Video set design for Latvian Nationwide Song Celebration, Riga, Latvija
Exhibition “ L’art contemporain en Europe”, exhibition hall “experience Pommery”, Reims, France
Exhibition „Buket“, Moskow, Russia
Exhibition of Latvian Contemporary Art „Time will show“, Dortmund, Germany
IDAprojects- presents The Vernacular Terrain, The Block, Queensland University of Technology, China
"Finally snow in the alps", group exhibition, Linz, Austria
Set design, costumes for play „Sarkano lukturu ziema“, The New Riga Theatre, Riga, Latvija
Set design for „Puppet opera“, Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia
2007
Illustrations for children’s book „Mazgalvīši spēlē mājās“, written by Pauls Bankovskis
Word in motion, video poetry festival, video for poet Semeon Hanin poem „ Diagnostic of poetry“, Latvia
IDAprojects- presents The Vernacular Terrain, The Block, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Baltic contemporary art, trilogy of exhibition, Kalmaret konstmuseum, Sweden
Contemporary art from Latvia, European central bank, Frankfurt, Germany
French spring 2007, exhibition "Urbanologic", video installation Topography Nr.29, Latvia
Pre-selection for 11th International Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Architecture in Prague, Latvia
Just what is it that makes today?, Gallery Antjewachs, Berlin, Germany
Katoptron (Direction of the mirror glance), special Project of 2 Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Moscow
2006
Videos from the Zones of Contact 2006 Biennale of Sydney, Cairns Regional Gallery, Australia
Electrofringe 06, A festival of digital, electronic, new media and experimental culture
Newcastle New South Wales, Australia
White Nights, Contemporary art project in five European cities, Madrid, Spain
Eskilstuna konstmuseum, Sweden
Femmes a’Europe, L’Ete Culturel 2006, Saint-Tropez, France
Biennale of Sydney, international festival of contemporary art, curator Charles Merewether, Sydney
Artistic event series “Trajectories”, project Alvoda, curator Stella Rolling, Riga, Latvia
Set design and costume design for play “Night Tariff”, New Riga Theater, Latvia
Face the unexpected, Dortmund, Germany
Video art from the Baltic States, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Germany
Suspense, Macedonian Modern art museum, Thessalonica, Greece
Suspense, Hellenic-American Union, Athens, Greece
EUROPART – Contemporary Art from Europe, curator Walter Seidl, Vienna, Austria
2005
Illustrations for children’s book Pasakas par bērnu dzīvi, Latvia
Solitude, Gallery Le Plateau (Curator Caroline Bourgeois), Paris, France
Stage design, video concept, costumes for opera Living Water, Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia
Suspense, Gallery "Apollonia" , Strasbourg, France
(un)dressed. Body in the Baltic photo art, Gallery Giedre Bartel, Berlin
Jukas, Exhibition Hall “Arsenāls” of the State Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
Instant Europe, Villa Manin (curators Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto ) , Italy
2004
Video stage design for the opera “Tosca”, Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia
No signal, Video/Audio performance together with Gonzo un Macrame , Festival Sound Forest, Riga, Latvia
Literature karaoke, video performance together with Gonzo un Macrame, launching of Andra Neiburga’s book “Stum Stum”, Gallery “Noass”, Riga, Latvia
Selecta, Macrame, Gonzo, video performance during the Open Doors Day of the Artists House, Riga, Latvia
Pornography, video work CHIV2004, A. Čaka iela, Riga, Latvia;
Welcome!, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
2003
2 Show, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; video film “Magic Things”
re:public, International Art and Culture Project in the suburbs of Riga; video performance “Traffic”
Adaptation, Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn, Estonia
Wild Photographers, Communications Centre “Sapņu fabrika”, Riga, Latvia
la riga, Fabbrica del Vapore, C/O Careof & VIAFARINI, Milano, Italy
Video stage design for the opera “Wandering Dutchman”, Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia
2002
Nothing Personal, Bremen City Gallery, Bremen, Germany
The 6th Element, International Women Art Exhibition, Hotel “Nams 99”, Riga, Latvia; documentary video film “What is in Girls’ Handbags”
Festival East Impact, vj, St Petersburg, Russia
Video stage design for the opera “Wandering Dutchman”, Dalhall, Sweden
T-Shroom Exhibition, Malmo, Sweden
T-Shroom Exhibition, Gallery IBID, London, UK
Video artist of the gala show of the Ballet Festival, Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia
2001
Metropolis. Riga, Riga Stock Exchange Building, Riga, Latvia
Poetic Video Festival, Riga, Latvia; video film “All Night”
The 12th Tallinn Print Triennial, Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn, Estonia
Down the tunnelzz, Liepāja, Latvia; video performance (vj)
Party Animals - Animal Farm, Riga, Latvia; videoinstallation “dj duck presents”
Social art project Teashroom popularization campaign of the Latvian Teashroom Growers’ Association – author of the idea and video
Activities within the creative association SOYA; vj
Curriculum Vitae, The Artists’ House, Klaipeda, Lithuania; video film „Diary”
2000
net.congestion, International Transmitting Media Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Letters to Riga, Gallery of the Blackheads’ House, Riga, Latvia; series of photographs “Riga’s Cover”
-things, Gallery “Noass”, Riga, Latvia; graphic sheet “Hammer”
Art + Communication 4, International New Media Festival, Riga, Latvia; transmission of the Festival conference from the Gallery “Noass” (with Pēteris Ķimelis) and videoperformance on the AB Dam at the Festival conclusion
IOB – Images of Borders, Swedish Pavilion at the EXPO 2000, Hannover, Germany; chairperson (together with Pēteris Ķimelis) of the seminar Web-TV – direct communication and interaction; Video-ART – videoperformance in the Swedish Pavilion at the opening of IOB
Real Time Data Jokeing workshop (with Pēteris Ķimelis) at the International Media Workshop “Polar Circuit”. Rovanniemi, Finland
ArtGenda 2000, Young Artists Biennial, Helsinki, Finland; video performance and Real Time Data Jokeing (with Pēteris Ķimelis)
Ljudgarden, Graphic art exhibition, Gallery “Mejan”, Stockholm, Sweden
Real Time Data Jokeing sessions on the internet TV BEOFF, Stockholm, Sweden
Solo Exhibition Real Face, Gallery “Noass”, Riga, Latvia; computer graphics, silkscreens and author’s technique, videoworks
Come by Immortal, with Pēteris Ķimelis, Gallery “Konstakuten”, Stockholm, Sweden