Amanda Ziemele (b.1990) is a Riga-based artist who keeps her artistic practice open for different explorations. She is interested in the formal qualities of painting framed by the ways how context and form interact. Ziemele adapts to site-specific settings that trigger situational associations. As a result, interventions are formalised through the medium specific peculiarities whereby the spatial and aesthetic experience is mediated in humorous and sometimes paradoxical ways. Ziemele holds a BA degree in painting from the Art Academy of Latvia and has completed Diploma studies in Interdisciplinary and experimental painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts where her Diploma project Gaining Ground received a Freundeskreis der HfBK Dresden prize as the best graduate’s project. Amanda Ziemele represented Latvian Pavilion in the Arsenale O day and night, but this is wondrous strange and therefore as a stranger give it a welcome at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024). Amanda Ziemele is a recipient of the Purvītis Prize 2021 granted for her solo exhibition Quantum Hair Implants on view in the Great Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga. As part of the Prize, she developed the solo show Sun Has Teeth (2023) at the Cupola Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art. Since 2016, Ziemele has held several solo exhibitions and has been engaged in various collaborative projects as well as actively participated in exhibitions including Duo Show (Ana Gzirishvili, Amanda Ziemele) at Polina Berlin Gallery, New York (2023), From “Abstraction” to Abstraction at Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego, Warsaw (2022), Lazybones at Natalia Hug Gallery, Cologne (2021), Riga Notebook. Following the Lines of Wacław Szpakowski, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland, (2021), Quantum Hair Implants at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2019) Being Like a Sponge, Candyland Gallery, Stockholm (2018), Crocodile Dilemma, 427 gallery, Riga (2016), among others. Amanda’s work can be found in several collections in Latvia and abroad, including the Latvian National Museum of Art, the VV Foundation and the Zuzāns Collection, Rīga.

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Funnel, 2024 Oil on Canvas 234 x 170 x 60 cm Photography: Liga Spunde

Close Your Eyes, 2024 Oil on Canvas 220 x 413 x 120cm Photography: Liga Spunde

Cool as a Cucumber, 2024 Oil on Canvas 261 x 365cm Photography: Liga Spunde

Morning, Sunshine!(Pottering Along), 2024 Oil on Canvas 377 x 651 x 122cm Photography: Liga Spunde

Double Crisp, 2024 Oil on Canvas 260 x 206cm Photography: Liga Spunde

Installation view of O day and night, but this is wondrous strange...and therefore as a stranger give it welcome, 60th Venice Biennale, Latvian Pavillion, April 2024. Photography: Liga Spunde

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