MADARA AUZENBAHA
1988

My creative practice includes painting, installation, illustration, and graphic design, however painting is my primary medium of expression. I work in oil, acrylic and mixed media, using visual language as a way to explore human relationships with the world.

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My paintings are pictographic narratives centred on themes of belonging and the search for one's place in the world, as well as an exploration of the boundary between objective reality and myth-making. They are fixations of moments, experiences, feelings and emotions that outline current reflections on events in the world and personal life in the language of symbols.

 

Colour is of particular importance. The series of paintings are monochrome, emphasizing the symbolic meaning of the chosen colours in various everyday aspects and historical contexts.

 

My paintings feature a variety of emotional experiences – joy, love, fear, anger, despair – but the focus is always on acceptance, compassion and the ability to transform experience into a new understanding. I am interested in art as a space for dialogue between the individual and the universal.

 

Through my work, I invite viewers to reflect on their own emotional experience and to seek a balance between what can be changed and what must be accepted. For me, art is a way of creating space for reflection, reconciliation, and a deeper connection with oneself and the surrounding world. 

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I graduated from the Latvian Academy of Art with a Master's degree in Painting. I furthered my studies at the University of Barcelona in Spain, the Münster Academy of Fine Arts in Germany, and Paasikivi-Opisto College of Visual Culture and Communication in Finland. I have taken part in group exhibitions in Latvia and abroad. To date, I have had seven solo exhibitions.