Exhibition “Commission”

07.01.2020.

Marta Trektere (Elīna Vītola, Amanda Ziemele) — Commission 

The new exhibition season’s second event at the elephant stables of Riga Circus, where the collaborations of various different artists will unravel before your eyes. In this project: Marta Trektere with Elīna Vītola and Amanda Ziemele.

Marta Trektere is a performance artist, writer and an independent curator based in Riga, Latvia. Currently running artist-run space 427 gallery in Riga. Trektere’s works address the simplicity of complexity in everyday life as well as psychological difficulties in life, art and text working with various media like performance, text, video, sound. Recent shows, screenings and performances include Baitball (01), Palazzo san Giuseppe Polignano, Italy (2020) I had amnesia once or twice, Polansky Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic (2019), Forest of the Doppelgängers, Catbox Contemporary, New York, USA (2019), Dying Death, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania (2019), Painless Youth, Editorial, Vilnius, Lithuania (2019) Posh Spaz, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia (2019) Fragile Trap, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland (2018) Suckling Animal Sibling in collaboration with Anni Puolakka Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia (2018), Variations on Vulnerability, BOZAR Brussels (2018) among others.

Elīna Vītola un Amanda Ziemele act as a team of inexperienced curators, who register, process and execute the commission.

 

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