Biography


Miks Mitrevics
Born 1980 in Latvia
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium

Education:

2010-2011 HISK - Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Gent, Belgium
1999-2005 MA Visual Communication, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Solo exhibitions:

2011   Let's go for a walk? I don't know. It's already late. Okay, just around a lake, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2011   Noise in the corridor it’s 5:23’ and I know it’s the postman bringing the letters, Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels, Belgium
2011   ARTscape Latvija : Miks Mitrevics, Galeria Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011   Fragile Nature, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Kunstverein Lübeck, Germany
2010   Fragile Nature, Stadtturmgalerie, Innsbruck, Austria
2009   Carethings, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia (With. K. Kursisa)
2009   Entropy Cube, KIM? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia (Collaboration w. K. Kursisa)
2009   Fragile Nature, Latvian exposition in the 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (With E. Deičmane) (Collaboration w. K. Kursisa) (exh. cat.)
2007   Collection of Persons, Andrejsala, Riga, Latvia (Collaboration w. K. Kursisa)
2006   The Observer, Space4 Gallery, Peterborough Museum, UK
2006   Somewhere nearby, Latvian National Museum of Art, exhibition hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia
2003   Motel, RIXC Media space, Riga, Latvia (With. K. Kursisa)

Group exhibitions (selected):

2011   Visitor, HISK, Gent, Belgium (exh. cat.)
2011   Dublin Contemporary 2011, Dublin, Ireland
2011   Modesty, Galerie Bäckerstrasse 4, Vienna, Austria
2011   Ex-Libris, Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels, Belgium
2011   The Emergence of Things, STUK kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium (exh. cat.)
2010   update-Die Welt als Modell, Montag Stiftung, Bonn, Germany (exh. cat.)
2010   Past in Present, Kunstenfestival Watou, Belgium (With. K. Kursisa) (exh. cat.)
2010   Rauma Biennale Balticum, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland (exh. cat.)
2010   Naturalia, Jozsa Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2010   HISK Open Studios, HISK, Gent, Belgium
2010   Not There, LETO Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2010   Riga dröhnt!, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany (exh. cat.)
2009   Purvitis Art Award Exhibition, Latvian National Museum of Art, exhibition hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia (Collaboration w. K. Kursisa) (exh. cat.)
2008   Swedbank Art Award, Kumu Art Museum, Tallin, Estonia
2008   Exposition d'art contemporain balte, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2008   Is the Medium the Message?, Andrejsala, Riga, Latvia (Collaboration w. K. Kursisa)
2008   Manifesta 7, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy (Curated by Adam Budak) (Collaboration w. K. Kursisa) (exh. cat.)
2008   L'art en Europe, European Contemporary Art, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France (exh. cat.)
2008   Buket, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia (exh. cat.)
2008   Time Will Show, Museumsberg Flensburg, Flensburg, Germany (exh. cat.)
2006   Forgotten Moments, Project presentation, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria
2005   Factory of Phantasmagoria, Lodz, Poland
2005   JUKAS, National Art Museum exhibition hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia (exh. cat.)
2004   2 show, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnus, Lithuania (exh. cat.)

Awards & Grants:

2008   Swedbank Art Award Kumu Art Museum, Tallin, Estonia
2006   Diena Culture Award, Riga, Latvia
2006   East2East Commission, Peterborough Digital Arts, UK
2006   UNESCO-AschbergBursary, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Austria
2003   Year Award, Visual arts (With K. Kursisa), Latvia