Edite Grinberga

Whether in completely empty or sparsely furnished rooms - light is always the protagonist in Edite Grinberga's paintings. Luminously captured on sometimes huge canvases, it sometimes sets the scene for a book, sometimes just a white room door. The inhabitants of her light-flooded rooms themselves are not visible, they seem to have just left the room. The viewer feels unobserved, can enter the rooms and come to rest in them.

Works

Edite Grinberga: Abend in Sellin I, 2022 — Abend in Sellin I, 2022, Oil on canvas, 60 × 80 cm

Edite Grinberga: Apfel und Birne mit Grün, 2018 — Apfel und Birne mit Grün, 2018, Oil on canvas, 60 × 80 cm

Edite Grinberga: Atelier in Sellin, 2022 — Atelier in Sellin, 2022, Oil on canvas, 150 × 230 cm

Edite Grinberga: Biedermeier, 2023 — Biedermeier, 2023, Oil on canvas, 130 × 200 cm

Edite Grinberga: Bücher mit Papierblättern, 2023 — Bücher mit Papierblättern, 2023, Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm

Edite Grinberga: Burn after reading, 2022 — Burn after reading, 2022, Oil on canvas, 60 × 80 cm

Edite Grinberga: Cello in Börgerende, 2023 — Cello in Börgerende, 2023, Oil on canvas, 120 × 180 cm

Edite Grinberga: Papierblätter mit Apfel im Licht, 2022 — Papierblätter mit Apfel im Licht, 2022, Oil on canvas, 60 × 80 cm

Edite Grinberga: Wohnung gegenüber III, 2023 — Wohnung gegenüber III, 2023, Oil on canvas, 130 × 200 cm

Edite Grinberga: Offenes Buch mit Skalpell, 2020 — Offenes Buch mit Skalpell, 2020, Oil on canvas, 60 × 80 cm

Edite Grinberga: Wohnung gegenüber, 2022 — Wohnung gegenüber, 2022, Oil on canvas, 60 × 80 cm

Edite Grinberga: Grüne Uhr mit Rot, 2021 — Grüne Uhr mit Rot, 2021, Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm

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Artist portrait

Artist portrait
Edite Grinberga

Exhibitions

Single Exhibitions

Evening in Börgerende
Sep. 2021

Intermediate Time
Nov. 2017

May. 2015

EDITE GRINBERGA
Feb. 2012

Group Exhibitions

PRIVATE CHOICE
Nov. 2022

15 Years of Galerie Friedmann-Hahn
May. 2020

Art Essences XXIII
Jan. 2020

Art Essences XXI
Apr. 2019

Art Essences XIV - Berlin Berlin!
Jul. 2016

Apr. 2016

Dec. 2015

Jun. 2014

Jan. 2014

Oct. 2013

Kunstessenzen IV
Jan. 2013

Kunstessenzen - Sommer 2012
Jun. 2012

Gruppenausstellung Sommer 2011
Jul. 2011

Gruppenausstellung Frühjahr 2011
Mar. 2011

Gruppenausstellung Oktober 2010
Oct. 2010

Gruppenausstellung Juli/August 2010
Jul. 2010

Gruppenausstellung April 2010
Apr. 2010

Fairs

Art Karlsruhe 2023
May. 2023

Feb. 2019

Feb. 2017

Nov. 2016

Mar. 2015

Dec. 2014

Mar. 2014

Exhibition list

Single Exhibitions

2022

"Stilleben", Galerie Peters-Barenbrock, Ahrenshoop, Germany

2021

"Abend in Börgerende", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2019

"Gedehnte Zeit", Kommunale Galerie Historischer Keller Spandau, Berlin, Germany

2018

"Zwischenzeit", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2018

"Die Räume der Anderen", Städtische Galerie Villa Strecius, Landau, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2023

"Private Choice", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2022

"Fall Show", Pryor Art Gallery, Atlanta, USA

2019

"Gedehnte Zeit (mit Andreas Theurer)", Kommunale Galerie Historischer Keller Spandau, Berlin, Germany

2019

"The Still Life of Colours (with Gustav Sundin and SIMKA)", Hilbertraum, Berlin, Germany

2019

"The Still Life of Colours mit Gustav Sundin und SIMKA", HilbertRaum, Berlin, Germany

Vita

Edite Grinberga's interior paintings seem to capture a moment and at the same time seem to have fallen out of time. These pictures radiate a serene calm that makes us pause for a moment and invites us to fill this silence and friendly emptiness with our own associations and stories. Due to the openness of the rooms, the viewer's gaze falls directly on a few pieces of furniture or things; objects that stand for a world that is in the process of disappearing.

The artist was born in 1965 in Riga, Latvia, where she studied at the Janis Rozentals School of Art, the State University and the State Academy of Fine Arts until 1988. In 1990 she moved to Berlin. While she initially worked figuratively, people have disappeared from her paintings for over 20 years.In the meantime, the artist devotes herself exclusively to the observation of light. Her works are regularly shown at national and international fairs and are part of public collections at the State Museum of Fine Arts in Latvia, the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey and the Museum am Dom Würzburg.

Lives and works in Berlin

1965

Born in Riga, Latvia

1975 - 1982

Janis Rozental Art School, Riga

1983 - 1988

State Academy of Fine Arts, Riga

1989

Works as a freelance artist on installations, objects and theater costumes in Riga

1990

Move to Berlin and focus on painting

2010

Scholarship at the Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, USA

Publications

Edite Grinberga: Zwischenzeit

120 Pages, 84 Figures
Berlin 2017, 25 €

Edite Grinberga: Geteiltes Licht

48 Pages, 24 Figures
Berlin 2015, 10 €

Edite Grinberga: Malerei 2009 - 2012

46 Pages, 21 Figures
Berlin 2012, 15 €