Kristīne Kligina
In her practice Kristīne Kligina brings together painting and textile art, making a quiet, nuanced visual language centred on family memory, the sense of history's presence, and nature. She is drawn in particular to old things as symbolic intermediaries between past and present, between personal and collective experience.
Her painting is marked by a restrained, considered range of colour — faded tones close to those of nature, in which bright colour is deliberately avoided. This choice reflects the artist's conviction that memories are not vivid but fragile, changeable and often incomplete. In the paintings colour is taken down to a minimum, leaving room for the viewer's imagination and individual experience.
Kristīne Kligina's works make a space for quiet observation — a layered sense of time opens in them, where material, form and texture interweave with a personal mythology and family stories. Her art prompts a slow, inward dialogue with the past, in which memory becomes a poetic landscape rather than a precise fact.
Kristīne Kligina graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia with a master's degree in painting and a bachelor's degree in textile art. Since 2018 she has held more than 20 solo exhibitions and taken part in about 70 group exhibitions in Latvia and abroad, including in Japan, South Africa, France, Germany, Slovakia, Lithuania and Estonia.
After international competition exhibitions her textile miniatures were taken into the holdings of the Museum of Art in Angers (France). Her works have taken part in significant international exhibitions and biennials, including the international textile miniature competition exhibition “Weaving the Future” and the textile art triennial “QUO VADIS?”.
The artist also works across disciplines – she has made stage design for concert programmes and illustrations for LTV, and she is the founder of the art space “Vieta nr. 6”.
In 2022 she received the Sigulda Municipality Annual Award in Culture. She also works as an art teacher.
The artist's exhibitions
Textures of Memory
20.10.2025 - 05.12.2025