Explore the current exhibition “Where to Hide!” at the Zuzeum Art Centre together with its curator Sandra Krastiņa.
📅 Friday, 16 February at 17.00
🎟️ Ticket price: 15 EUR, for students and seniors – 10 EUR, Zuzeum Card holders – EUR 13.50
🗣Language: Latvian
In the Great Exhibition Hall of Zuzeum the exhibition ‘Where to Hide!’ is on display until May 19th. The exhibition presents more than 350 works created by Latvian artists under Soviet occupation from the Zuzāns Collection, Latvian National Museum of Art and private collections as well as materials from the Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents.
During the tour, Sandra Krastiņa will introduce the concept of the exhibition and delve into both the art created during the Soviet occupation years and the overall context of that time, highlighting the significance of Soviet-era art and its role today. Sandra Krastiņa is not only the curator of the exhibition ‘Where to Hide!’ but also an artist who herself created artworks during the Soviet occupation and experienced firsthand how, alongside themes co-opted by the authorities, artists endeavored to express themselves freely. This allowed the exhibition to be shaped as an authentic testimony of the era, where the author speaks clearly and unmistakably through the artwork.
Sandra Krastiņa (1957) is a painter, establisher and head of the Museum of the Artists’ Union of Latvia (2001–2006), editor-in-chief of the Neputns Publishers magazine Dizaina Studija (2006–2012), book editor, exhibition curator. Member of the Coin Design Commission of Latvijas Banka (2010–). Having taken part in exhibitions since 1980, she has also worked in book illustration and animation, designed collector coins for Latvijas Banka. Her works are held in the Latvian National Museum of Art (Riga, Latvia), Collection of the Artists’ Union of Latvia (Riga, Latvia), Ludwig Forum for International Art (Aachen, Germany), State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia), Rothko Museum (Daugavpils, Latvia), Tartu Art Museum, Zuzāns Collection (Riga, Latvia), the collection of Matti Milius (Tartu, Estonia), Ola Foundation Collection (Riga, Latvia), Art Hub Collection (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), private collections in Latvia and abroad. In 2018, she was awarded the Order of the Three Stars.
Tickets must be purchased online at zuzeum.com. Event tickets are not refunded or changed. Tickets are limited.
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