VV Foundation is excited to announce Amanda Ziemele’s new exhibition “This World and Other Worlds Too”, opening at PAiR gallery in Pavilosta on July 3, 2025. The show will re-contextualise the works originally created by the artist for Latvian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024.
With this exhibition, PAiR continues its tradition of bringing Latvian artists from Venice Biennale to its gallery, offering a platform to present Ziemele’s innovative work from a new perspective and make it more accessible to the local audience.
In the words of the show’s curator Adam Budak, This World and Other Worlds Too “ repositions Amanda Ziemele’s sculptural and painterly work, conceived for the industrial interior of the Venetian Arsenale: from laguna to the coast, the sun’s journey through the irregular surfaces, adored by tender brush strokes and precise gesture of the shape’s moulding. Amanda’s work is an act of both, a doubt and an embrace, while reflecting upon the plurality of today’s world, and its precarity, a reunion of this and the other.”
The exhibition is produced by INDIE Culture Project Agency. The technical director of the exhibition is Martins Vizbulis.
Opening evening programme:
18:00 Opening
18:30 Curator Adam Budak in conversation with Amanda Ziemele
19:30 “Artists Table” dinner in collaboration with Cooking by the River
About the artist:
Amanda Ziemele graduated from the Visual Arts Department of the Art Academy of Latvia, with a Bachelor’s degree in Painting. She completed diploma studies in the study programme of Interdisciplinary and Experimental Painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and was awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with a Post-Graduate Scholarship.
Since 2016, she has actively participated in exhibitions in Latvia and abroad and has been engaged in various collaborative projects. Amanda Ziemele received the 2021 Purvītis Prize for her exhibition “Quantum Hair Implants”. In early 2023, her solo exhibition “The Sun has Teeth” was on view in the Dome Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga. In 2024, she represented Latvia at the 60th Venice Biennale with the exhibition “O day and night, but this is wondrous strange… and therefore as a stranger give it welcome”.
Ziemele’s work can be found in renowned collections in Latvia and abroad, including the Latvian National Museum of Art, the VV Foundation and Zuzeum, Riga.
About the curator:
Adam Budak is a curator of contemporary art and author of texts on art. On 14th July he will take up the post of the Director of MOCAK The Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow.
From 2020 to 2024 he served as Artistic Director of Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover. Budak has curated numerous international biennials, including Manifesta 7, the Gherdëina Biennale, the Prague Biennale, and the Polish Pavilion (2003), Estonian Pavilion (2013), and Latvian Pavilion (2024) at the Venice Biennale. He also served as a commissioner of the Czech Pavilion (2017, 2018, 2019).
More info: vvfoundation.org
To book a seat for the “Artists’ Table” dinner, please email us at info@vvfoundation.org
