Created especially for ArtVilnius, Prussian Green, Persian Red brings together a new series of paintings taking the names of two colours as its point of departure. Across the works, Persian Red and Prussian Green appear in different shades and under various titles, while carrying echoes of places and cultures whose past continues to shift into the present. The paintings bring these two colours into proximity without establishing a fixed relationship between them. Their placement throughout the booth extends this ambiguity into the space itself, allowing connections, tensions and coincidences to emerge between individual works. Colour remains the constant throughout, shifting between image, material and title, while the spaces between the paintings are left open to potential meaning.

Kaļiņins’ practice is rooted in the materiality of painting, often taking the paint itself as the starting point for a series of works. A particular colour, its name and its physical properties can provide the initial premise, from which the painting is allowed to develop. He describes paint as the protagonist, giving the material a degree of agency rather than using it simply as a means to construct an image. This allows conceptual framing to remain closely tied to the act and material of painting, while leaving the resulting works open enough to carry associations beyond their original premise.

Andris Kaļiņins (Balvi, 1994) holds a BA in scenography and an MA in painting from the Art Academy of Latvia and has established himself as one of the Baltics’ most distinctive emerging artists. His solo exhibitions include Andris Kaļiņins’ Oil Painting at Jūrmala Museum and Weißer Saal at TUR, and group exhibitions have shown his work in Latvia and internationally. His paintings are represented in the collections of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Signet Bank and Zuzeum, as well as several prominent private collections. Most recently, Kaļiņins was awarded the Young Painter Prize 2026, following both the jury and audience awards of the SEB Painting Scholarship in 2025.

TUR’s participation at ArtVilnius is supported by VKKF

Photos by Jonas Balsevicius

Thresholds of Bloom was created especially for Riga Contemporary. Drawing on the cyclical rhythms of the natural world, Biksone used the seasons as a way of rethinking how change is experienced. In her paintings, forms reappear in altered states, carrying traces of what came before. References to the cycle of the seasons run throughout the works: spring nudges winter aside, leaves emerge where frost once settled, and light seems to borrow its colour from autumn. The works suggest that change unfolds through repetition, return, and subtle transformation, where nothing fully disappears but continually re-emerges in new forms.

Grounded in painting and extending into object and spatial installation, Biksone's practice explores how painting can shape environments and how materials, objects, and space participate in emotional experience. Her works develop through an iterative process of testing, revision, and material negotiation, allowing paintings to extend beyond the canvas while remaining rooted in painterly thinking.

Katrīna Biksone (b. 1999, Riga) is a graduate of the Art Academy of Latvia, where she completed her BA in Painting in 2023 and her MA in POST in 2025. She has quickly established herself as one of the country's most distinctive emerging artists participating in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her work is held in several esteemed collections including the Latvian National Museum of Art, Zuzāns Collection, and the VV Foundation. She is the recipient of the SEB Painting Scholarship (2023), the Nordic and Baltic Young Artist Award (2023), and the Linstow Art Award (2025).

TUR’s participation at Riga Contemporary was supported by VKKF