Ieva Iltner’s “My room” is her workshop, where characters for paintings are lived and created. The word “my room” defines a space, a painted dimension that characterizes Ieva Iltner’s painterly practice, and the viewer is given the opportunity to get closer to the origin of this creative process. Ieva Iltner discovers things that inspire her – paintings, books, photographs, design objects, fashion, architecture, ethnoculture.
With her own talent, Ieva Iltner creates the space of the painting in a way that suggests that the visible scene has been there forever. She has the ability to balance images, objects and landscape regardless of their origin and historical period. Ieva Iltner thinks in a spatial context, breaking down wall planes and bringing together different, sometimes completely opposite objects.
The poetic and metaphorical power of “My Room” focuses on the contemplation between life and imagination, existence and artistic creativity. (Ilze Živate)
Ieva Iltnere (1957) graduated from the Department of Monumental Painting of the Latvian Academy of Arts, the master workshop of Indulias Zariņš (1982). Since 1980, she has held 26 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 90 important group exhibitions in Latvia and abroad.
Ieva Iltner’s paintings are in public collections – the Latvian National Art Museum (Riga, Latvia), the Museum of the Latvian Artists’ Union (Riga, Latvia), the collection of the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art (Riga, Latvia), the Ludwig Museum (Aachen, Germany), the European Central Bank of Art collection (Frankfurt, Germany), Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA), State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia).
In 2017, Ieva Iltner was awarded the Order of Three Stars.
