Sigita Daugule
Riga, Latvia
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Sigita Daugule is a Latvian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1971;
The artist is well known and recognized in Latvia, internationally best known for her solo and group exhibitions in Austria and Germany.
In 1998 graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia with Masters degree in Art at the department of Monumental Painting, workshop of I. Zarins and A. Naumovs.
1999-2000 awarded with “KulturKontakt” Austria scholarship to live and work in Vienna.
How to understand Sigita Daugule's work? At the cradle of her style (emerged in late 90s) there are significant memories of the expansion of modern art with its uprising against classical culture and against man as a whole mayor. The criteria of modernism are abstract concepts, abstract emotions, and the order set by chaos. Sigita Daugule's painting has closely merged with these criteria, but not only with them. It also merges with the dynamics of postmodernism – with those fragments of classics, larger or smaller, which floating slowly through the cultural space and spreading their energy, particularly tempting since the 70s. Postmodern situation determines the composite essence of Daugule's paintings – they contain both classical elements, such as color harmony, narrative and imaginative plots, and are modernistic, with typical too self-sufficient, too ambitious masses of colors and strokes, that create abstract dramas. Sigita Daugule paints as an agent of chaos theory, who provokes "deep" color dramas. And "deep" here must be understood literally, because it happens not like a cultural drama of color harmony that shakes taste, as it is, let’s say, in expressionism, but rather the chemical collisions of paint on canvas. Varnishes and solutions are applied on oil paints that converts them beyond recognition. It sounds and also resembles alchemy.
Member of the Artist's Union of Latvia since 1998.
EDUCATION
1995 - 1998 Art Academy of Latvia, Class of Mural Painting
1996 - 1998 Art Academy of Latvia, Master's Programme
1992 - 1996 Art Academy of Latvia, Bachelor's Programme
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 "Painting" Art Station Dubulti, Jurmala, Latvia
2019 Gallery Kunstraum, Vienna, Austria (together with Vineta Kaulača)
2018 Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2017 Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2017 "In one room". Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
2016 Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2015 Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2013 Gallery Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria
2012 Riga City exhibition Hall Art Space Riga, Riga, Latvia
2011 gallery Seywald, Salzburg, Austria
2010 Showroom for Young Art, Gallery Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria
2009 gallery ASuna, Riga, Latvia
2009 Galerie Malmede - Kunst, Cologne, Germany
2008 Kunstsalon Franz Leuwer, Bremen, Germany
2008 Galerie Malmede - Kunst, Cologne, Germany
2007 Galerie Malmede - Kunst, Cologne, Germany
2007 Kunstsalon Franz Leuwer, Bremen, Germany
2006 gallery alpha, Vienna, Austria
2005 Kunstsalon Franz Leuwer, Bremen, Germany
2004 as part of the project compilation 2112 m europe, Galerie am Hauptplatz, Hainburg, Austria
2004 Artists' Union of Latvia gallery
2002 gallery Čiris, Riga, Latvia
2001 gallery alpha, Vienna, Austria
2001 gallery Čiris, Riga, Latvia
2000 gallery Čiris, Riga, Latvia
2000 gallery ASuna, Riga, Latvia
1999 gallery Korotan, Vienna, Austria
1999 KulturKontakt Gastateliers, Vienna, Austria
1999 gallery Čiris, Riga, Latvia
1998 gallery Čiris, Riga, Latvia
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Latvian National State Museum of Art
Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre
Collection of Modern Art of Swedbank
Zuzanu family collection
Belevics family collection
Luciano Benetton Collection Imago Mundi
PUBLICATIONS
Dace Lamberga, Laima Slava "Sigita Daugule", monograph, 284 pages,Publishing house Neputns, 2017, Riga, Latvia
Sigita Daugule "Jānis Liepiņš", monograph, 120 pages, Publishing house Neputns, 2015, Riga, Latvia
AWARDS
2008 "Painting of the year" prize of the "Swedbank" in cooperation wirth the gallery ASuna
2000 Prize at the competition of Agency Riga 800, Riga, Latvia
1998 Prize at the competiotion "Riga in contemporary art", Riga, Latvia