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Viktors Svikis

What is particularly striking about Svikis’ work is that his style – compared to that of other contemporary artists – is not or hardly ever fractured by theoretical or conceptual approaches. He is most interested in his material: charcoal, paper, canvas, oil paints but also the strength, power and – at times – violence that influence everyday life and its extremity seem to be his central thoughts.

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He does not judge but instead intends to use his work to analyze people’s motivation and the world they are faced with. He does not only use different materials in order to achieve his goals but also applies these materials in different ways. From a perspective regarding their technical realisation, his drawings are to be placed between Goya and graffiti, his oil paintings between plastic physicality and bold displays. All levels of the painting seem to interact in order to create a new form of multidimensionality which seems to let his works flow in constant movement both on a contextual and on a formal level.

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Drawings
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Education

since 2003 Art History Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2000-2002 Master Class of Figurative Painting and Drawing, Art Academy Latvia, Riga, Latvia, Degree: Master of Arts
1996-2000 Master Class of Figurative Painting and Drawing, Art Academy Latvia, Riga, Latvia, Degree: Bachelor of Arts
1990-1997 Rigaer Janis Rozentals Kunstschule, Riga, Latvia

Grants / Awards

2011 Nomination for the Walter Koschatzky Art Award
2009 Nomination for the Walter Koschatzky Art Award, Rotary-Club Wien-Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Nomination for the Strabag ArtAward International, Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
2002 Artist contest in Riga, Latvia, rank 1st and scholarship with Prof. Indulis Zarins
2001 Scholarship from Vilis-Valdmanis-Foundation

Solo exhibitions

2019 Storylines, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, Austria
2016 Feinstaub, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, Austria
2014 Nuts and bolts, Galerie Michaela Stock & NEXT DOOR galerie michaela stock, Vienna, Austria
2012 Realitätsprinzip, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, Austria
Run Now, NEXT DOOR galerie michaela stock, Vienna, Austria
2005 Pastaiga Ārpus / a walk outside, Galerie Bastejs, Riga, Lettland

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Group exhibitions

2018 Pin me up – Turn me arround, galerie michaela stock, Emotional Journey, Bildraum Bodensee, Bregnez, Austria
2015 Art of Appropriation, Interpiktorality, Part 2, galerie michaela stock, Austria
2014 Connecting Sound Etc. Cable Works, Cabel Sounds, Cabels Everywhere, Freiraum, Quatier 21, Vienna, AUstria
2013 Vienna Gallery Weekend, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, Austria
2012 AfterArtBodensee, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, Austria
2011 sensitiv EXTRA, MSU Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Croatia – Austria – Return, MMSU Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Young Art Auction 2011, Projekt der Artware GmbH, Novomatic Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
MUMOK – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (Austria), presentation of the works nominated for the Walter Koschatzky Art Prize.
2010 transient, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, Austria, with Patrick Baumüller
Young Art Auction 2010, Projekt der Artware GmbH, Novomatic Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
2009 Young Art Auction 2009, Projekt der Artware GmbH, Haus der Industrie Wien, Vienna, Austria, with Mathias Kloser, Christan Eisenberger, Clemens Wolf u.a.
MUMOK – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (Austria), Presentation of the works nominated for the Walter Koschatzky Art Prize (Anthropology of Loneliness I-III)
2005 Galerie Bastejs, Riga, Lettland
2003 Radošā darbnīca 2003/A creative Studio 2003, Galerie Bastejs, Riga, Lettland
Silmast silma – Face to Face, Kunsthaus Tartu, Tartu, Estland
2002 Galerie Bastejs, Riga (Lettland), Presentation of the works nominated for the Prof. Indulis Zarins Fellowship
Rudens 2001/Herbst 2001, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, National Art Museum of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Galerie Valensia, St. Petersburg, Russia
2001 Exhibition of paintings by students and professors of the master class of figurative painting and drawing of the Latvian Academy of Arts, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, National Art Museum of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Radošā darbnīca 2001/A creative Studio 2001, Galerie Bastejs, Riga, Lettland
Art Gallery Nellija, Riga, Lettland
Exhibition of paintings by the professors of the Latvian Academy of Arts and the scholarship holders of the Vilis Valdmanis Foundation, Latvian Association House, Riga, Latvia
Show room Latvenergo, Riga, Lettland
2000Bachelor’s thesis at the Latvian Academy of Arts, Bastejs Gallery, Riga, Latvia
39 Gleznas/39 Paintings, Show room of the Art Academy Lettland, Riga, Lettland

Reviews & Essays

Wiener Zeitung

21.08.2019

Angela E. Akbari | Realitäten

10.02.2012

Publications / Editions

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2011

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Edition: Fuck the shit
Katalog

2022

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