Ivars Heinrihsons
"I have three topics that are inspiring by interchanging one another. In terms of standard phrases, they are three directions that dwells in every person. Also in me. A Horse, a piano and ballet ... The horse is romance, nature with its shapes and expression. The piano is a sign of civilization; lets it be interpreted as a form. But ballet ... It is the quest for an ideal, a dream, existing beyond time and reality.” /Ivars Heinrihsons/
Curriculum Vitae
Born on September 22nd, 1945, in Sabile, Latvia
Professional occupation: painting, drawing, lithography
Painting professor of Latvian Academy of Art
Has participated in exhibitions since 1973
Lives and works in Riga, Latvia
Education
1964-1973 Latvian Academy of Art - Riga, Latvia
1957-1964 Janis Rozentals Art School - Riga, Latvia
Exhibitions (2000-2019)
Major solo
2019 Chaos Theory. Maksla XO Gallery - Riga, Latvia
2018 Art from Latvia. Ivars Heinrihsons. Museo Fundación Antonio Pérez, Cuenca, Spain
2018 Arte de Letonia. Saludos de Ivars Heinrihsons al estilo quijotesco para Letonia en su Centenario. Convento de Capuchinos, Esquivias, Toledo, Spain
2018 Arte de Letonia. Saludos de Ivars Heinrihsons al estilo quijotesco para Letonia en su Centenario. Museo El Posito, Campo de Criptana, Spain
2017 Code. Maksla XO Gallery - Riga, Latvia
2016 Signs, Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2015 Piano Works. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2014 Way of Sign. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2014 Ballet In Liepaja. City Museum, Liepaja, Latvia
2013 Helena Heinrīhsone, Anna Heinrihsone, Ivars Heinrihsons. Theatre House Juras varti, Ventspils, Latvia
2012 Le Chevalet de Chevaux. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2012 In Sign of Horse. Vina studija, Riga, Latvia
2011 The Way. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2011 Not Man, Not Horse. (The Way II). Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2010 Ballet. Paintings, Drawings. Gallery Laipa, Valmiera, Latvia
2010 Horses. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2009 Ivars & Helena. Paintings. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2009 Swan Lake. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2008 Red and Black: Paintings (together with Helena Heinrihsone). Promenade Art Gallery, Liepaja, Latvia
2008 Paintings (together with Helena Heinrihsone). Museum, Valmiera, Latvia
2007 UPB Art. UPB Exhibition Gallery, Liepaja, Latvia
2007 Race. Drawings. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2007 Ivars Heinrihsons: Rennen. TVDART Gallery, Berlin, Germany*
2006 Paintings, drawings, photos. Culture Centre, Sabile, Latvia
2006 Classicism (Drawings). Architects’ Union of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
2005 Restrainig the Form. Horses. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia *
2005 Horses. Exhibition House, Cesis, Latvia
2004 Piano Lesson. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2001 Ivars Heinrihsons: Exhibition in Museum. State Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia*
2000 Selected Works. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
Selected group exhibitions
2021 POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair. Maksla XO Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2021 Still Life of Things. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2020 #4stages. Museum LV Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2020 PAPER POSITIONS Berlin, Maksla XO Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019 Human Chain. Art from the period of the National Awakening. Mukusalas Art Salon,
Riga, Latvia
2019 Humans. Maksla XO Gellery, Riga, Latvia
2019 Taxonomy of Senses. Heinrihsoni. Concert Hall - Great Amber, Liepaja, Latvia
2018 Yard. The Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
2018 Man in Art. Maksla XO gallery, Riga, Latvia
2018 ART VILNIUS 2019. Maksla XO gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 PORTRAIT IN LATVIA. 20th CENTURY. Facial Expressions. Latvian National
Museum of Art, Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia
2017 Generation. Liepaja Museum, Liepaja, Latvia
2017 TOP in formation. Exhibition of Zuzāns Collection. Latvian National Museum of Art,
Riga, Latvia
2017 ART MADRID 2017 - Maksla XO Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2015 Latvian painting. Paris, France
2015 Exhibition of Diploma Works and Professors' Works from Art Academy of Latvia. Europe Kommission, London, US
2014 JUST MAD 5 Art Fair. Madrid, Spain
2013 ART.FAIR - Koelnmesse. Cologne, Germany*
2013 Private Process. The works of professors’ from painting department of Art Academy, Riga, Latvia
2013 Rigas Laiks. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2013 Blue. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2013 Sztuka Lotwy. Museum Slaskie, Katovic, Poland
2013 Holy Shit. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2012 Contemporary Painting from Latvia. Organized by Art Society of Latvia, Embassy of Latvia, Warsaw, Poland
2011 Art on Paper. International Art Saloon – Moscow-2011: Artist. City. The Central Artists’ House, Moscow, Russia
2011 Litographers. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2011 Catapult. Exhibition of Painting Professors of Latvian Academy of Art. Theatre House Juras varti, Ventspils, Latvia
2010 Red Dot. International Contemporary Art Show. New York, USA
2010 Catapult. Exhibition of Painting Professors of Latvian Academy of Art. Exhibition Hall of Academy of Art, Riga, Latvia
2010 Crossing. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2010 Latvian Contemporary Art. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2010 Rigas Laiks.The Black. Exhibition Hall Pinakotēka, Rīga, Latvia
2010 Art Territory. Latvian Contemporary Art. Fine Arts Centre Volhonka, Moscow, Russia
2009 Tuareg Blue. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2009 Artist Portraits and Self-portraits. Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia*
2009 Art Vilnius ’09. Litexpo, Vilnius, Lithuania*
2009 Conversion. Helena Heinrihsone, Dzintra Vilks, Egils Royenbergs, Ivars Heinrihsons. Design and Decorative Art Museum, Riga, Latvia
2009 Cities of Europe in the Works of the Latvian Painters No. 2. European Commission Representation. Gallery Asuna, Riga, Representation of the Republic Latvia to the European Union, Brussels*
2008 Exhibition of Painting Professors of Latvian Academy of Art. Representatives of Latvia in Europa, Brussels, Belgium
2008 Chair. Exhibition of Painting Professors of Latvian Academy of Art. Promenade Art Gallery, Liepaja, Latvia
2008 Messe Art Bodensee 2008. Messe Centrum, Dornbin, Austria*
2008 Cities of Europe in the Works of the Latvian Painters. Art Gallery Asuna, Riga, Latvia*
2008 Signature. Exhibition of Conceptual Painting Workshop. Gallery 1. stāvs, Riga, Latvia
2007 J t’aime, France. Latvian Academy of Art, Riga, Latvia
2007 Echo of Fauvism in Latvian Painting: 1910-1980. Exhibition Hall Arsenals of National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia*
2007 New Acquisitions: 2002-2007. National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2007 Kunst der gegenwart: Lettland, Estland, Litauen. Galerie Art Promotion 02, Liebshausen, Germany
2007 Art International Zurich. Kongresshaus, Zurich, Switzerland*
2006 Painting. Professors’ works of Painting Department. Latvian Art Academy, Riga, Latvia
2006 Garden of the Mundane Pleasures. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2006 Arte Lettone Contemporanea: Anna Heinrihsone, Helena Heinrihsone, Ivars Heinrihsons, Ilze Jaunberga, Egils Rozenbergs, Dzintra Vilks. Collegio Raffaello, Urbino, Italy*
2005 Vita Nuova. La Lettonia in Europa. Pallazzo Reale, Naples, Italy
2005 Litographers. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2005 Latvian Art: 1945-2005. Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia*
2004 Art on Paper. Riga Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2004 Arte lettone contemporanea. Sala Museale del Barracano, Bologna, Italy*
2004 Pas de deux. Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation, Riga, Latvia
2003 Abstract art in Latvian painting. State Museum of Art: Arsenals, Riga, Latvia*
2003 Disput With Grand Master. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia*
2003 Latvia, Suprising Art from 20th Century. Stedelijk Museum, Zwolle, Netherland*
2002 Fibre Art from Latvia. Central Artists` House, Moscow, Russia
2002 Drawing. Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2001 International Art Salon. Central Artists` House, Moscow, Russia*
2001 Riga 800 – La fibre de la modernite. UNESCO Palace, Paris, France*
2001 Metropolis. Riga. Stock Excange Building, Riga, Latvia*
2000 A la Zanotta. Gallery Riga, Riga, Latvia
2000 Three Friends: Helena Heinrihsone, Anna Heinrihsone, Ivars Heinrihsons. Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia
2000 Riga Art Nouveau. Riga Gallery, Riga, Latvia*
2000 Fibre Art. Museum of Decorative Applied Art, Riga, Latvia
Public collections
Art Museum Arsenals - Riga, Latvia*
Artists’ Union of Latvia - Riga, Latvia*
Tretyakov Gallery - Moscow, Russia
Samlung Friedeman Stockart - Munich, Germany
Zimmerly Art Museum - New Jersey, USA*
Grafiken Hus Collection - Mariefred, Sweden
Hansabanka/Swedbank Collection – Riga, Latvia*
Janis Zuzans Collection - Riga, Latvia
* Catalogue