Andrejs Ko

Joined Artfinder: Jan. 2023

Artworks for sale: 136

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United Kingdom

About Andrejs Ko

 
 
  • Biography

    Andrejs Dinvalds has been a professional artist and designer for more than 30 years. From 2009 he lives and works in the UK.
    Andrejs Ko (Andrejs Dinvalds) was born in Riga, Latvia in 1970. Having finished the Janis Rozentāls Riga Art Secondary School in 1988, he went on to study at the Latvian Academy of Art, graduating from the Department of Environment Design in 1994.
    While still a student he took part in many group exhibitions in Latvia, Russia, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Israel, USA, Canada and other states. He has had one-man show in Riga: „Closing one eyes” (art gallery ag7, 2008), „Pieces of reconquered space” (art gallery Slazds, 2009), „Xenotopia” (art gallery Mākslas Banka, 2013), „Xenotopia II” (art gallery Mākslas Banka, 2014), „Silence between two thoughts” (art gallery Happy Art Museum, 2018), 
    „Blackbird’s Meal in a Sunlit Garden” (Tifāna Art Gallery, 2024). The artist’s works can be found in private collections in Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Germany, USA, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.

    Andrejs Ko creative path includes a diversity of media. He worked for a long time (1999–2008) with one of the leading media companies in the Baltic states as their head artist and responsible for the visual design of several television channels. Already in the 1980 and 90s Andrejs Ko had also proved himself to be an outstanding painter and currently his talent as an artist manifests itself in painting.
    Andrejs Ko works in acrylic on canvas, as well as experimenting in his own technique to create both metaphorical figural compositions and stylised still life’s, landscapes and portraits.
    The artist has paid special attention in his works to the research and discovery of the manifold properties of materiality. He achieves fragility and depth in texture through careful multi-layered painting. The surface is enriched by a realistically clear and detailed drawing in contrast with the interplay of pronouncedly ornamental and expressively chaotic lines. The result is a painterly polyphony of nuances and rhythms, which creates a space for thought associations and sensations to unravel.


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  • Education

    1988 - 1994

    Latvian Academy of Art,

    1881 - 1988

    Janis Rozentāls Riga Art Secondary School

  • Awards

    2025

    Premier Artist Prize 2025

    I’ve been selected as one of the 50 recipients of the Premier Artist Prize 2025 by the esteemed Curator Board of the Contemporary Art Station! @contemporaryartstation
  • Upcoming Events

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    Event: Blackbird’s Meal in a Sunlit Garden

    Dates: 17 May 2024 - 24 May 2024

    Venue: Tifāna Art Gallery, Riga, Latvia (Jāņa iela 16)

    The exhibition Blackbird’s Meal in a Sunlit Garden presents only a small fraction from the series of 160 paintings made over the last two years. Andrejs Ko has dedicated his latest cycle of still-lifes to warm summer evenings and the morning sunlight which moves across the wall and the uneven curvature of the objects, hides among the foliage and gradually dissolves in tender halftones bordering on shade. The old teapot, a silver spoon, berries and fruits – it seems that someone has either forgotten or intentionally left them in the garden to the delight of hungry birds.

    A sunny day is like a gift from a short summer – all of us are entwined in its warm embrace, and a hope for happiness is reborn in even the most northern of hearts.

    Andrejs Ko’s paintings are like memories of moments filled with calm and harmony, of silent places, where to escape from the bustle and everyday concerns...

    Event: Silence between two thoughts

    Dates: 24 Jul 2018 - 20 Aug 2018

    Venue: art gallery Happy Art Museum, Riga, Latvia

    Silence between two thoughts

    Event: Xenotopia II

    Dates: 6 Aug 2014 - 27 Aug 2014

    Venue: art gallery Mākslas Banka, (Riga, Latvia)

    Xenotopia II

    Event: Xenotopia

    Dates: 5 Jun 2013 - 26 Jun 2013

    Venue: art gallery Mākslas Banka, (Riga, Latvia)

    Xenotopia

    Event: Pieces of reconquered space

    Dates: 8 Jul 2009 - 28 Aug 2009

    Venue: art gallery Slazds, (Riga, Latvia)

    Pieces of reconquered space

    Event: Closing one eyes

    Dates: 1 Apr 2008 - 21 May 2008

    Venue: art gallery ag7, Riga, Latvia

    Painting Exhibition

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Education

1988 - 1994

Latvian Academy of Art,

1881 - 1988

Janis Rozentāls Riga Art Secondary School


Awards

2025

Premier Artist Prize 2025

I’ve been selected as one of the 50 recipients of the Premier Artist Prize 2025 by the esteemed Curator Board of the Contemporary Art Station! @contemporaryartstation

There are no upcoming events

Show previous events Hide previous events

Previous events

Event: Blackbird’s Meal in a Sunlit Garden

Dates: 17 May 2024 - 24 May 2024

Venue: Tifāna Art Gallery, Riga, Latvia (Jāņa iela 16)

The exhibition Blackbird’s Meal in a Sunlit Garden presents only a small fraction from the series of 160 paintings made over the last two years. Andrejs Ko has dedicated his latest cycle of still-lifes to warm summer evenings and the morning sunlight which moves across the wall and the uneven curvature of the objects, hides among the foliage and gradually dissolves in tender halftones bordering on shade. The old teapot, a silver spoon, berries and fruits – it seems that someone has either forgotten or intentionally left them in the garden to the delight of hungry birds.

A sunny day is like a gift from a short summer – all of us are entwined in its warm embrace, and a hope for happiness is reborn in even the most northern of hearts.

Andrejs Ko’s paintings are like memories of moments filled with calm and harmony, of silent places, where to escape from the bustle and everyday concerns...

Event: Silence between two thoughts

Dates: 24 Jul 2018 - 20 Aug 2018

Venue: art gallery Happy Art Museum, Riga, Latvia

Silence between two thoughts

Event: Xenotopia II

Dates: 6 Aug 2014 - 27 Aug 2014

Venue: art gallery Mākslas Banka, (Riga, Latvia)

Xenotopia II

Event: Xenotopia

Dates: 5 Jun 2013 - 26 Jun 2013

Venue: art gallery Mākslas Banka, (Riga, Latvia)

Xenotopia

Event: Pieces of reconquered space

Dates: 8 Jul 2009 - 28 Aug 2009

Venue: art gallery Slazds, (Riga, Latvia)

Pieces of reconquered space

Event: Closing one eyes

Dates: 1 Apr 2008 - 21 May 2008

Venue: art gallery ag7, Riga, Latvia

Painting Exhibition


 

Biography


Andrejs Dinvalds has been a professional artist and designer for more than 30 years. From 2009 he lives and works in the UK.
Andrejs Ko (Andrejs Dinvalds) was born in Riga, Latvia in 1970. Having finished the Janis Rozentāls Riga Art Secondary School in 1988, he went on to study at the Latvian Academy of Art, graduating from the Department of Environment Design in 1994.
While still a student he took part in many group exhibitions in Latvia, Russia, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Israel, USA, Canada and other states. He has had one-man show in Riga: „Closing one eyes” (art gallery ag7, 2008), „Pieces of reconquered space” (art gallery Slazds, 2009), „Xenotopia” (art gallery Mākslas Banka, 2013), „Xenotopia II” (art gallery Mākslas Banka, 2014), „Silence between two thoughts” (art gallery Happy Art Museum, 2018), 
„Blackbird’s Meal in a Sunlit Garden” (Tifāna Art Gallery, 2024). The artist’s works can be found in private collections in Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Germany, USA, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.

Andrejs Ko creative path includes a diversity of media. He worked for a long time (1999–2008) with one of the leading media companies in the Baltic states as their head artist and responsible for the visual design of several television channels. Already in the 1980 and 90s Andrejs Ko had also proved himself to be an outstanding painter and currently his talent as an artist manifests itself in painting.
Andrejs Ko works in acrylic on canvas, as well as experimenting in his own technique to create both metaphorical figural compositions and stylised still life’s, landscapes and portraits.
The artist has paid special attention in his works to the research and discovery of the manifold properties of materiality. He achieves fragility and depth in texture through careful multi-layered painting. The surface is enriched by a realistically clear and detailed drawing in contrast with the interplay of pronouncedly ornamental and expressively chaotic lines. The result is a painterly polyphony of nuances and rhythms, which creates a space for thought associations and sensations to unravel.