About Andrejs Ko
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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
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Event: Blackbird’s Meal in a Sunlit Garden
Dates: 17 May 2024 - 24 May 2024
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
Silence between two thoughts
Event: Xenotopia II
Dates: 6 Aug 2014 - 27 Aug 2014
Xenotopia II
Event: Xenotopia
Dates: 5 Jun 2013 - 26 Jun 2013
Xenotopia
Event: Pieces of reconquered space
Dates: 8 Jul 2009 - 28 Aug 2009
Pieces of reconquered space
Event: Closing one eyes
Dates: 1 Apr 2008 - 21 May 2008
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.
