Ieva Epnere
Biography
Ieva Epnere's artistic practice revolves around exploring themes of identity, memory, and history. She works with a variety of mediums including video, photography, and textile and installation art, often incorporating personal and collective narratives to create a deep and introspective experience for the viewer. Epnere's notable stylistic approach involves a blend of documentary storytelling, visual poetry, and a keen eye for capturing the essence of her subjects within the context of broader societal and historical landscapes.
In 2019, she received the Purvītis Prize for her work "Sea of Living Memories".
In 2019/2020 Epnere was awarded a one-year German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Artists-in-Berlin programme scholarship to Berlin.
She has held 26 solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions and film festivals in Latvia and abroad. Her work has been shown at galleries and art events such as Fogo Island Gallery, Fogo Island, Newfoundland; Art in General, New York; daadgalerie, Berlin; Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium; Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA 1); Kunsthalle Wien; Malmö Museum, Steirischer herbst 24, IMMA, Dublin, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein among others.
(1977) has graduated from the Textile Department (2001) and the Visual Communication Department (2003) of the Art Academy of Latvia and from the postgraduate studies at HISK Ghent (2012).
