Helena Heinrihsone
Painting is the greatest adventure, where nothing is impossible. It breaks down boundaries between reality and art. When the deeply personal is formulated into colors and made public, serious things can be turned into farce. So it is with my dogs, foxes and cat-frogs. Through a ludicrous body a very specific experience is revealed.
/Helēna Heinrihsone/
Helēna is versatile. Her excellence shows not only in her painting, but also in the graphic, drawing, porcelain painting and animation.
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Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1948 in Riga, Latvia
Education
1967-1973 Latvian Academy of Art. Painting department
1960-1967 Jānis Rozentāls Riga secondary school of Art
Selected Solo Exhibitions (2004-2021):
2021 Woman. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2020 Something like that (In the Name of Love) together with Ivars Heinrihsons, Riga
Smallest Art Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2019 How Marko Maetamm met Helena Heinrihsone. Together with Marko Maetamm, Maksla
XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2019 Diary together with Anna Heinrihsone, Museum of Valmiera, Valmiera, Latvia
2019 Roses and Morandi’s Vases. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2018 Passing By. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2018 Bedroom Paintings. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2017 Helena Heinrihsone. Kuldiga Art House, Kuldiga, Latvia
2017 In Flight. Makslai Vajag Telpu foundation, MVT Summer House, Riga, Latvia
2017 With Watercolours. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2016 I love you. Tribute to Alex Katz. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2016 ILLUMINATION. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2015 Magic Realism. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2014 In the Sea. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2013 Hot. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2013 Fetishes. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2012 Flat. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2011 Observers. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2011 Helena Heinrihsone. Aquarelle. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2010 Painted From. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2009 Ivars & Helēna. Paintings. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2008 Watercolours. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2007 Hey, Mole! Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2004 Summer Faces. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
Selected Group Exhibitions (2004-2021)
2021 VIENNACONTEMPORARY 2021, Maksla XO Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2021 Still Life of Things. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2020 VIENNACONTEMPORARY 2020. Maksla XO Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2019 Human Chain – art of the national awakening. Mukusalas Art Salon, Riga, Latvia
2019 Taxonomy of Feelings. Heinrihsoni. Civita Nova Gallery, Great Amber Concert Hall,
Liepaja, Latvia
2019 Humans. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2019 PAPER POSITIONS BERLIN 2019. Maksla XO Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018 Portrait in Latvia. 20th Century. Facial Expressions. Latvian National Museum of Art,
Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia
2018 Art Doesn't Separate, Art Unites! Global Center for Latvian Art (PLMC), Cesis, Latvia
2018 PAPER POSITIONS BERLIN 2018. Maksla XO Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018 Meeting. Kuldiga District Museum, Kuldiga, Latvia
2018 Contemporay Latvian Watercolour. Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils,
Latvia
2018 Helena Heinrihsone and Friends. Central Library of Riga, Riga, Latvia
2017 TOP in formation. Exhibition of Zuzāns Collection. Latvian National Museum of Art,
Riga, Latvia
2017 Experimental Sidestep. Gallery Putti, Riga, Latvia
2017 ART MADRID 2017. Maksla XO Gallery, Madrid, Spain*
2016 ART MADRID 2016. Maksla XO Gallery, Madrid, Spain*
2016 Black Paintings. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2016 Inconvenient Gender. The Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
2014 ART COPENHAGEN 2014, Gallery Bastejs, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 ART VILNIUS. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2013 Rīgas Laiks. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2013 Blue. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2013 Holy Shit. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2013 Liste Berlin. Gallery Bastejs, Berlin, Germany
2012 Baltic Bridges. Museum of Visual Comunications, Kaunas, Lithuania
2012 Calendar. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2011 ART VILNIUS 11. Maksla XO Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 Lithographers. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2010 Red Dot Art Fair NYC. Gallery Bastejs, NYC, USA
2010 Cities of Europe in the Works of the Latvian Painters No. 2. European
2010 Commission Representation. Gallery Asuna, Riga, Latvia
2010 Golden Works. The Exhibition Hall Arsenals of Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga,Latvia
2009 SCOPE ART FAIR BASEL. Gallery Bastejs, Basel, Switzerland
2009 ART VILNIUS 09. Maksla XO Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 Bridge Art Fair. Gallery Bastejs, NYC, USA 2009 Conversion. Design and Decorative Art Museum, Riga, Latvia
2009 Tuareg Blue. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2008 Cities of Europe in the Works of the Latvian Painters. Art Gallery Asuna, Riga, Latvia
2008 Baltic Bridges. M.K.Ciurlonis National museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2008 The Purvītis Prize. The Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art,Riga,Latvia
2007 Echoes of Fauvism. Latvian Painting 1910 – 1980. The Exhibition Hall Arsenals of Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2005 Vita Nuova. La Lettonia in Europa. Pallazzo Reale, Napoli, Italy
Awards:
2009 Nominant for the Purvītis Award
2008 Diena Annual Culture Award
2008 Lielais Kristaps (“Big Kristap”) – Prize of Latvian Filmmakers Union
2008 Order of the Three Stars – order awarded for merits in service for Latvia
Public collections:
The Latvian National Museum of Art. Riga, Latvia
Latvia Artists’ Union Museum. Riga, Latvia
The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow, Russia
Jane Voorhees Zimmerly Art Museum. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Swedbank Contemporary Art Collection. Riga, Latvia
State Bank of Latvia. Riga, Latvia