{"id":9477,"date":"2026-08-13T15:11:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/?p=9477"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:01:33","slug":"krista-vindberga-auznieces-solo-exhibition-circles-are-better-than-lines-oda-pieskarienam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/en\/krista-vindberga-auznieces-solo-exhibition-circles-are-better-than-lines-oda-pieskarienam\/","title":{"rendered":"Krista Vindberga-Auzniece’s solo exhibition Circles Are Better Than Lines (oda piesk\u0101rienam)"},"content":{"rendered":"Krista Vindberga-Auzniece<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span>Circles Are Better Than Lines (oda piesk\u0101rienam)<\/span><\/i><\/b>
\nsolo exhibition<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Opening: August 26, 6-9 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Exhibition dates:<\/span><\/b> August 27\u2013October 18, 2026<\/span>
\nVenue:<\/span><\/b> Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Sporta 2, Riga<\/span>
\nCurator:<\/span><\/b> Zane Onckule<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I don’t remember any of it, and yet I still seem to have memories of it.<\/span><\/i>
\nKrista Vindberga-Auzniece<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The body remembers through touch. The new drawings made especially for Krista Vindberga-Auzniece\u2019s solo exhibition emerge through repetition, silence, and concentration, with one movement slowly following the next until time accumulates in the surface. Charcoal crumbles, slips from the control of the hand, and is worked into the carefully prepared canvas; each subsequent touch retains the trace of the one before, turning duration into a material quality of the image.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Vindberga-Auzniece\u2019s particular sensitivity, a heightened sense of presence akin to falling in love or some other intoxicating state, meets images from a time that belonged to others. Old family albums become starting points for prolonged looking, where a smile, a hand on a shoulder, a dance step, a fold of fabric or flowers held with ceremonial seriousness acquire a new kind of attention, bringing peripheral details into focus.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The contours of these drawings on canvas and paper grew out of this meditative rhythm, in which movement becomes a form of contemplation. The artist\u2019s hand is at once an instrument, a measuring device, and a bearer of memory. The drawing takes on sculptural contours, its surface holding the pressure of the palm, the imprints of fingers and movements causing persistent friction, pushed to the point of drawing blood, leaving the artist\u2019s body legible within the image.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The photographic source material comes from the artist\u2019s personal archive: faded black-and-white and sepia images of lives past. Enlarged, sometimes hundreds of times, these images shift in weight and meaning as the scale redistributes attention. The miniature acquires mass and a musculature of meaning; the passing moment gains permanence, while an unfamiliar gesture or posture becomes strangely recognisable.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Images fixed long before the artist\u2019s birth enter a field in which personal and collective memory overlap. Retrospective looking \u2013 individual, capricious and selective \u2013 becomes entangled with a broader field of memory, where the past returns through body language: a gesture, a posture, a hand, a way of holding oneself before the camera.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A nostalgic and melancholic vibration emerges from the awareness that every photograph has already captured something lost. Looking and drawing allow that moment to acquire meaning once again, with the instant of the photograph becoming the duration of the drawing. Material is worked into the surface, touch follows touch, and the drawing is layered, tended to, fed, and strengthened until the form of a story begins to bloom.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In <\/span>Circles Are Better Than Lines<\/span><\/i>, a shift of a single degree from the upper edge of the frame introduces a slight refusal of alignment, a deliberate accident levitating within the otherwise anonymous white field. Across two dozen drawings, these disturbances draw the viewer into a labyrinth of proximity and distance, where perception takes shape through approach, withdrawal, and return.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A line moves forward, accepting a beginning and an end, while a circle arranges and rearranges the breath and rhythm of the line, folding its movement back into itself. The circle gives the line another temporality, based on recurrence. <\/span>Are circles better than lines <\/span><\/i>then<\/span>? <\/span><\/i>As angular and static propositions, they both work.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Krista Vindberga-Auzniece<\/span><\/b> (b. 1989) is a visual artist working across a range of media and scales, from small-format drawings to large-scale scenographic works for theatre and opera. She holds a BA in painting from the Art Academy of Latvia and an MA in visual communication. Her work has been presented in solo, duo, and group exhibitions in Latvia and internationally, including at the Latvian National Museum of Art and Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, Alma Gallery in Riga, and Kogo Gallery in Tartu. In 2019, she received an award at the Prague Quadrennial. She has also received the Sp\u0113lma\u0146u nakts Theatre Award and the Latvian National Theatre Award for scenography. She has been nominated for the Purv\u012btis Prize three times, in 2015, 2021, and 2023. Her work is held in the collection of the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art, the Latvian National Museum of Art, and private collections in Latvia and abroad.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Supported by:<\/span><\/b> the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, the State Culture Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, Altum, KRASO, Kokmui\u017ea, and Media Port.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kim? Contemporary Art Centre and exhibition team:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Executive Director: <\/span><\/b>Evita Goze\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nProgramme Director:<\/span><\/b> Zane Onckule\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nCommunications Manager:<\/span><\/b> Kristi\u0101na B\u0113rza\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nProject manager: <\/span><\/b>Katr\u012bna Jau\u0123iete<\/span>
\nMediators: <\/span><\/b>Betija Briede, Po\u013cina Gasparovi\u010da, Em\u012blija Austra Lodi\u0146a, Anna Annemarija Samsone, Alise Sedleniece, Linda \u0160terna <\/span>
\nTechnical team: <\/span><\/b>M\u0101rti\u0146\u0161 Aulmanis, Aldis Bu\u0161s, Rom\u0101ns Medvedevs <\/span>
\nLatvian proofreading:<\/span><\/b> Ilze Jansone\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\nEnglish proofreading: <\/span><\/b>Will Mawhood\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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