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.

Amanda Ziemele gained her BA in Arts from the Painting Department in Art Academy of Latvia and later continued with Diploma studies in the Interdisciplinary and experimental painting study programme (Prof.Christian Sery) at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Her Diploma project Gaining Ground received a Freundeskreis der HfBK Dresden prize as the best graduate’s project at the Academy of Arts Dresden and was also nominated for European art graduates Start Point Prize 2018. Ziemele is a recipient of ‘Purvītis Prize’ 2021 granted for her solo exhibition Quantum Hair Implants on view in the Great Hall of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga. Since 2016, she has held several solo exhibitions and has been engaged in various collaborative projects as well as actively participated in exhibitions in Latvia and elsewhere.

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.


Solo shows

  • O day and night, but this is wondrous strange…and therefore as a stranger give it welcome , The Latvian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition— La Biennale di Venezia, 2024

  • Sun Has Teeth, The Cupola Hall of the main building of the Latvian National Art Museum, Riga, Latvia, 2023

  • Lazybones, Natalia Hug Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 2021

  • Neunauge, Gallery NEMO, Eckernförde, Germany, 2019/2020

  • Quantum Hair Implants at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2019

  • Fish with Legs at former elephant stable of Riga Circus, as a part of the visual art programme of the theatre troupe KVADRIFRONS, Riga, Latvia, 2018/2019

  • Being like a sponge, artist-run space Candyland, Stockholm, 2018

  • The Crocodile Dilemma, Gallery 427, Riga, Latvia, 2016

Duo and Group shows (selected)

  • Back to Future, Kunsthal 44Møen, Denmark, 2024

  • 427 Collection, Gallery 427, Riga, 2024

  • In the Name of Desire, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, 2024

  • Emotional Intelligence II, Polina Berlin gallery, New York, 2024

  • Der Demokratishe Raum, Review Ostsee-Biennale, Kunsthalle Rostock, 2024

  • Ana Gzirishvili, Amanda Ziemele, Polina Berlin gallery, New York, 2023

  • Sardines, Garage Gallery, Prag, the Czech Republic, 2023

  • From “Abstraction” to Abstraction, Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego, Warsaw, 2022

  • DGS Dream, MABOCA festival, Madona, Latvia, 2021

  • Riga Notebook. Following the Lines of Wacław Szpakowski, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland, 2021

  • Palette: Three-legged Evidence, hosted and invited by Daria Melnikova, Salon du salon, as part of Roots to Routes, Manifesta 13, Les Paralleles du Sud, Marseille, France, 2020

  • Sol LeWitt WD #719, executed by Elīna Vītola and Amada Ziemele, Gallery 427, Riga, Latvia, 2020

  • Commission, Elīna Vītola, Amanda Ziemele and Marta Trektere, Elephant Stables at Riga Circus, Riga, Latvia, 2019

  • Black Market, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2019

  • Kā skan, Tā atskan, No Moon, New York, 2019

  • Eimanda Zeina Collection Exhibition, a collaboration project with artist Hanele Zane Putniņa, at the Creative Studio of the ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia, 2019

  • Life Beneath Eternity, curated by Gallery 427, as a part of Project Space Festival at Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin, Germany, 2019

  • Monumental Café, collaboration project with a painter and co-founder Elīna Vītola, Consumer Society Hall, MABOCA festival, Madona, Latvia, 2019

  • Out of Context, Tallinas ielas kvartāls, Black hole project, Riga, Latvia, 2019

  • STARTPOINT.18 Prize for European art graduates exhibition, Gallery Dům pánů z Kunštátu, Brno, the Czech Republic, 2018

  • SUPERMARKET 2016, Independent Art Fair, Gallery 427, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016

  • Tension. The Young in Latvian Painting III,  ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall of Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMA), Riga, Latvia, 2016

  • Monograph for the Unknown Artist M.S., Gallery 427, Riga, Latvia, 2015

Awards

  • The Purvītis Prize 2021

  • The BDO Latvia award for the support of young artists, 2020

  • Freundeskreis der HfBK Diplompreis 2018 Award for Diploma Project, 2018

  • DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship holder for Foreign Graduates and Post-gradual studies in the Fields of Fine Art, 2016-2018

Other

Lecturer/Tutor at the Art Academy of Latvia, Faculty of Visual Arts: MA POST department

LOW gallery together with Elīna Vītola and Ieva Kraule-Kūna (2019-2021)

Waitress at ‘Monumental Café’ together with artist Elīna Vītola (2019 -..)

Co-curator at Riga Circus Elephant Stables (2019/2020),

Part of the MEMBRA musical theatre team