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.

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 der Eichbuschallee, 2018
Abend in der Eichbuschallee, 2018, Oil on canvas, 120 × 180 cm
Edite Grinberga: Abend in Sellin V, 2023
Abend in Sellin V, 2023, Oil on canvas, 180 × 270 cm, Sold
Edite Grinberga: Abend in Sellin VI, 2023
Abend in Sellin VI, 2023, Oil on canvas, 60 × 80 cm, Sold
Edite Grinberga: Eck mit zwei Türrahmen, 2023
Eck mit zwei Türrahmen, 2023, Oil on canvas, 100 × 140 cm, Sold
Edite Grinberga: Grünes Buch mit Sektkorken, 2023
Grünes Buch mit Sektkorken, 2023, Oil on canvas, 50 × 70 cm, Sold
Edite Grinberga: kleiner Bogen, 2023
kleiner Bogen, 2023, Oil on canvas, 90 × 90 cm
Edite Grinberga: Notenständer mit Rot, 2023
Notenständer mit Rot, 2023, Oil on canvas, 100 × 140 cm
Edite Grinberga: Offenes Buch in der Mitte, 2023
Offenes Buch in der Mitte, 2023, Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm, Sold
Edite Grinberga: Offenes Buch mit rotem Gurt, 2022
Offenes Buch mit rotem Gurt, 2022, Oil on canvas, 100 × 140 cm
Edite Grinberga: Piaf, 2023
Piaf, 2023, Oil on canvas, 110 × 160 cm, Sold
Edite Grinberga: Raum mit Vorhang und Rot, 2023
Raum mit Vorhang und Rot, 2023, Oil on canvas, 130 × 200 cm
Edite Grinberga: Schaukelstuhl mit leuchtendem Orange, 2022
Schaukelstuhl mit leuchtendem Orange, 2022, Oil on canvas, 120 × 180 cm
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Artist portrait

Artist portrait
Edite Grinberga

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Fairs

Exhibition list

Solo 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
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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
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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