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biography

Catalogue: INDRIKIS GELZIS

Upcoming:
- Tatjana Pieters
Group show
Spring, 2024
Belgium


- NADA NY
Solo show
May 2- 5 ,2024
New York, USA


- Superstudio3 @AAW24 by Stellar
Group show
May, 2024
Antwerpen, Belgium

- Polina Berlin gallery
Solo show
September, 2024
New York, USA


- Flats
Group show
September, 2024
Brussels, Belgium

- Suprainfinit gallery
Solo Show
April, 2025
Romania


Past solo shows:

- Watery Day's Eye
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre. Riga, Latvia
Riga, Latvia
August 24 - October 9, 2023


- Art Brussels
Solo presentation / Discovery section
Represented by ASHES/ASHES NY
Brussels, Belgium
April 20 - 23, 2023


- Yawn holding Fields
Tatjana Pieters gallery
Ghent, Belgium
March 12 - 17.04.2022


- Liste
Solo presentation
Suprainfinit gallery
Basel, Switzerland
September 21 - 27, 2021


- Daily Charts
Suprainfinit gallery
Bucharest, Romania
March 24, - May 1, 2021


- Still life of a still life
Tatjana Pieters gallery
Ghent, Belgium
October 28, 2020 - January 17, 2021


-
Figure of Everything
Castor
London, UK
September, 17 - October 31, 2020


- Self-isolation during COVID-19
Brooklyn, New York
April 27- May 1, 2020


- Pause for the cause
Cinnnamon gallery
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
March 23 - May 4, 2019


- TABLEAU at ASHES/ASHES
New York, USA

- Nightball effect at King's Leap
Brooklyn, New York


- Skeleton of the wind at Suprainfinit together with Viktor Timofeev in Bucharest, Romania

- The Man in the Moon together with Adja Yunkers at Belenius gallery in Stockholm, Sweden

- Aeolian breath in Riga, Latvia

- Between the sheets at Cinnnnamon gallery in Rotterdam, The Netherlands


- Sky's The Limit at Hole of the Fox in Antwerpen, Belgium


- Tastes like headaches together with Adam Cruces and Louisa Gagliardi at kim? Contemporary art centre. Riga, Latvia

Past group shows:

- VAGABOND \ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE
Jenny's NYC. Hosted by Kim? Contemporary Art Centre
Riga, Latvia
2022


- Force[d] Majeure
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre
Riga, Latvia
September 2 - December 31, 2021


- Black Market
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre
Riga, Latvia
December 1, 2020 - January 31, 2021
+
NADA Miami
Dec. 1 - Dec. 5., 2020


- The 4 Gate Connection
Tatjana Pieters Gallery
26.01 - 01.03.20.2020
Ghent, Belgum


- Close Up at Cesis Contemporary Art Centre

- A closed mouth gathers no feet
Dash gallery
Kortrijk, Belgium 
March 2 - April 7, 2019 


- Doors of Paradise at Union Pacific London


- The Last Rave together with Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx and Tom Volkaert at Diesel Project space in Seraing, Belgium


- Heavy metal at Jerome Pauchant gallery in Paris, France

- Superposition at Joshua Liner gallery in New York

- Monsone at Suprainfinit gallery in Bucharest, Romania

- Wholesome environment at Lundgren gallery in Palma, Spain

- Form Cannibalism at The Stable in Waregem, Belgium



... something from 2012 - 2015






















Indriķis Ģelzis 
Born 1988 in Riga, Latvia
Currently lives and works in Riga, Latvia
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Lived and worked
2022 Riga, Latvia
2020, 1/4 New York, USA
2019 Antwerpen, Belgium and Riga, Latvia

2018 New York, USA
2015 - 2017 Antwerpen, Belgium
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Represented by:

Suprainfinit / Romania / info@suprainfinit.com

Tatjana Pieters / Belgium / info@tatjanapieters.com

Education:

2015 - 2016 HISK - Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Gent, Belgium

2012 - 2014 Latvian Academy of Art, Department of Visual Communication; MA

2011 - 2012 ArtEZ institute of the Arts. Media department. Enschede, Holand

Solo shows:

2023 - Watery Day's Eye. Kim? Contemporary art centre. Riga, Latvia.

2022 - Solo presentation Art Brussels. Represented by ASHES/ASHES NY. Brussels, Belgium

2021 - Yawn holding fields. Tatjana Pieters gallery. Ghent, Belgium

2021 - Solo presentation "Liste Art Basel". Represented by Suprainfinit gallery. Basel, Switzerland

2021 - Daily charts. Suprainfinit gallery. Buckarest, Romania

2020 - Still life of a still life. Tatjana Pieters gallery, Ghent, Belgium.

2020 - Figure of Everything. Castor gallery. London, UK.

2019 - Pause for the cause. Cinnnamon gallery. Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2019 - TABLEAU. ASHES/ASHES. New York, USA

2018 - Nightball effect. King's Leap. Brooklyn, New York

2018 - Skeleton of the wind. Together with Viktor Timofeev. Suprainfinit gallery. Bucharest, Romania

2018 - The Man on the Moon. Adya Yunkers & Indrikis Gelzis. Belenius gallery. Stockholm, Sweden 

2017 - Rest and vest. Vartai gallery. Vilnius, Lithuania

2017 - Aeolian Breath. Tallinas street 10. Riga, Latvia 

2017 - Between the sheets. Cinnnamon gallery. Rotterdam, The Netherlands  

2017 - Sky's The Limit. Hole Of The Fox. Antwerp, Belgium

2017 - Tastes Like Headaches. Indrikis Gelzis and Adam Cruces with Louisa Gagliardi.

kim? Contemporary art centre. Riga, Latvia.

2015 - Two unexpected visitors. "Arsenals" Creative studio. National Art Museum of Latvia. Riga, Latvia

2015 - Patiently becoming a sculpture. MVT. Riga, Latvia

2015 - We have a thing in common. Vartai gallery. Vilnius, Lithuania

2014 - Specifying interpretations on a single individual. Riga Art space. Intro space Riga, Latvia

2013 - Blind sounds. Entrance gallery. Prague, Czech Republic

2012 - The Meeting. KIM? Contemporary Art Centre. Riga, Latvia 

2012 - Blind sounds. KIM? Contemporary Art Centre. Riga, Latvia

2011 - Lost in eyeshot. Cesis, Latvia

Group shows:

2023 - SATELLITE OF LOVE. Represented by Suprainfinit gallery. Hosted by Double V gallery Paris, France

2022 - Onsen Confidential 2022. XYZ collective (Tokyo) & 4649 (Tokyo) & KIM? Contemporary Art Centre

2022 - VAGABOND \ A PLACE HARD TO PLACE/. JENNY'S + KIM? Contemporary Art Centre. New York, USA

2021 - Force[d] Majeure. kim? Contemporary art centre. Riga, Latvia.

2020/2021 - Black Market + NADA Miami. kim? Contemporary art centre. Riga, Latvia.

2020 - 4 Gate Connection. Tatjana Pieters Gallery. Ghent, Belgium

2019 - DARK MODE. ASHES/ASHES. New York, USA

2019 - Close Up. Cesis, Latvia

2019 - A closed mouth gathers no feet. Dash gallery. Kortrijk, Belgium 

2018 - Doors of Paradise. Union Pacific gallery. London, England

2018 -The Last Rave. Diesel Project Space. Liege, Belgium

2018 - Heavy metal. Group show. Jerome Pauchant. Paris, France

2018 - Superposition. Group show. Joshua Liner gallery. New York, USA

2017 - NNN. Group exhibition. National Art Museum of Latvia. Riga, Latvia

2017 - Monsone. Suprainfinit gallery. Bucharest, Romania. Curated by Domenico De Chirico

2017 - Wholesome Environment. Lundgren gallery. Palma, Spain

2017 - Lockers V2 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Netherland. Curated by Diego Diez

2017 - Form Cannibalism. The Stable. Waregem, Belgium

2016 - The Empty Fox Hole. HISK final show. Ghent, Belgium. Curated by Philippe Van Cauteren

2015 - Silence between fences. "A bigger peace, a smaller peace". Latvian Railway History Museum. Riga, Latvia.

2015 - Influx. Era VI VII VI. New York, USA 

2014 - SALON. kim? Contemporary art centre. Riga, Latvia.

2014 - Hello, Head! Latvian Railway History Museum. Riga, Latvia

2013 - Escape Landscape. Tartu Art house. Tartu, Tallin

2012 - Blind sounds. Experiment & Excellence. Art festival Cesis


Artist Talks:

2015 - "Stage, Scale and Surprise: John C. Welchman and Indrikis Gelzis in Conversation". Art Museum "Riga Bourse", Latvian National Museum of Art


Features/Press:

Mousse

Art Viewer

- Contemporary Art Daily

- Contemporary Art Library

- Elephant Magazine

O Fluxo

Aujourdhui

Kuba Paris

The Kinsky 

- Szum

Echo Gone Wrong

Footnotes On Art 

- Wall Street International


Collections:

- Alain Servais Family Collection / Belgium

- Antoine De Werd Collection 
/ The Netherlands

- BTA ART Collection / Latvia

- Colin Fernandes Collection / USA

- CELINE ART PROJECT / FRANCE

- Francis Vanhoonacker Collection / Belgium

- Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection / Belgium

- Bieke Clerinx and Tanguy Van Quickenborne Collection/ Belgium

- Museum of Recent Art / Romania

- The Lewben Art Foundation / Lithuania

- Latvian National Museum of Art

- Paul Thiers Collection / Belgium

- Signet Bank Art Collection / Latvia

- S.M.A.K. The Municipal Museum of Contemporary / Belgium

- Stijn Dejaghere Collection / Belgium

- VV Foundation / Latvia

- Wang Jianlin Collection / China

- Zuzeum Art Collection / Latvia

works in other private collections