Atis jakobsons biography

Biography.
Atis Jākobsons currently lives and works in Riga and Berlin.
Born in 1985 in Bauska / Latvia.

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Atis Jākobsons & Kate Krolle

Truth Is Simple

Video Installation, 2012

To dig out the secrets you have buried, it is necessary to return to nature: this is the most intimate and direct form of our experience. All processes going on inside us are part of nature, inescapable in their determinacy, thus they are not to be ashamed of or avoided. The video installation “Truth is simple” shows the experience of our thoughts on the stage provided by nature, where all actions are beautiful and necessary. (A.J., K.K.)

Artists' Bio:

Kate Krolle currently lives and works in Paris. She has a Master’s degree from the Graphic Art Department of the Art Academy of Latvia. Kate Krolle’s artworks often remind visual poems that reflect the unaccepted, incomprehensible and lonely side of human nature. Kate Krolle works in various media: graphic art, objects, installations, and video and takes part in exhibitions since 2004.

Atis Jākobsons has obtained a Master’s degree in Painting from the Arts Academy of Latvis a Latvian-born artist working in painting, photography, and mixed media. His

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The soul’s map to the labyrinth of the subconscious

Conversations — 20.06.2022

Una Meistere, Ainārs Ērglis

A conversation with artist Atis Jakobsons

This conversation with Atis Jakobsons took place in the Latvian coastal village of Mazirbe, where he has just exhibited six works from his most recent series, Vision. The show is part of the first exhibition of EnergArt, Arterritory’s nomadic gallery.

They begin as pastel drawings. Jakobsons explains how after a long period of monochrome, he has recently been increasingly returning to colour. “Colour for me is no longer just colour – it is sound, a frequency. And it is scientifically measurable. (...) I think that intuitively, either consciously or unconsciously, I’m approaching art therapy. Healing through colour. Being in a field of colour really does heal you; colour is a pure frequency. Pure energy.” An intangible calm enters the room along with Jakobsons’ works; quietly, unobtrusively and touchingly, they lead us deeper... Into a world where there are no more words, only sensat

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Atis Jakobsons

Curriculum Vitae

Born in 1985 in Bauska, Latvia

Education

2008-2010 Acquired Degree of Master of Arts

2004-2008 Art Academy of Latvia, Painting department

2000-2004 Riga Design and Art school, Environmental design department

Solo exhibitions

2016 Frequencies (euphoria). Gallery Maksla XO, Riga, Latvia

2015 Dark Matter. Mūkusala Art Salon, Riga, Latvia

2011 Insomnia. Gallery Antonija, Riga, Latvia

2009 Eclipse. Gallery Gothards, Bauska, Latvia

2007 Emotion radiation. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia

2006 Sleep. Gallery Mūrnieks, Riga, Latvia

Selected group exhibitions

2016 Contemporary landscape. Cēsis Old Beer Brewery, Cesis, Latvia

2015 Selfportrait. Gallery Maksla XO, Riga, Latvia

2015 KIK-4. Kino Internationale, Berlin, Germany

2015 Centro Negra. Blanca, Murcia, Spain

2014 Unknown Masterpieces. Wonderloch Kellerland gallery, Berlin, Germany

2014 In search of the Horizon. Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga, Latvia

2013 Survival Kit 5, Dauderi, Riga, Latvia

2013 Young Painter Prize. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

2013 Interv