Ilze Helgelande ^{Emerging artist}

Artist is based in: Latvia

Ilze Helgeland is a Latvian artist whose practice explores storytelling, memory, time, and the relationship between people and their visual surroundings. With a background in acting, graphic design, and television journalism, storytelling has remained a continuous thread throughout her creative practice. She graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2018 and received her Master’s degree in Painting from the Art Academy of Latvia in 2026. Her painting Dio Nostalgia was exhibited at the London Art Biennale in 2021 and became the starting point for the Nostalgia series, reflecting on the passage of time and the rapid transformation of technology. Her more recent projects, including Quid Agatur? and the painting cycle Memory Thistle, turn towards people, memory, personal experience, and the traces that time leaves behind. Her current artistic research expands towards the concept of Nordicity and the visual and cultural connections between the Baltic and Scandinavian regions. Through research, travel, encounters, drawing, and painting, she explores how landscape, light, place, and everyday visual experience shape our perception and identity.