We’re excited to welcome you to the opening on Friday, September 25th, from 6 to 9 PM!
Keeping the Peels
Katrīna Biksone
25/09 – 24/10/2026
“Confrontation is pointed both from the subject towards its object of desire, and these overgrowths confront her back. The skins that form a protective barrier between outside and inside become dissected and withered. When these lines between self and other are blurred, the result is a reversed pathological mutualism. The worried surface is defecated; the relationship appears self-destructive, yet the roots keep expanding and thriving. But just like in the case of hoarding, the more expansive it gets, the more fragile are the pegs upholding such a structure.
The birds hatch and break free from their cage, just to flutter back and peck at its wires.”
– Katrīna Jauģiete
Katrīna Biksone b. 1999 in Riga, Latvia and is living there. In 2023 she completed her BFA in Painting at the Art Academy of Latvia and obtained her MA in POST there in 2025. Additionally, she has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig in Germany and the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy, as part of exchange programmes. Since 2017, Biksone has participated in group exhibitions in Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium, Germany, and New York, and has held three solo exhibitions in Latvia. She has received the SEB Painting Scholarship (2023), the Nordic and Baltic Young Artists Award (NOBA) in Painting (2023), and the Linstow Art Award (2025).
Support: VKKF (State Culture Capital Foundation), Riga City Council