Amanda Ziemele Latvian, b. 1990

Artits Riga-based artist who keeps her artistic practice open for different explorations. She is interested in the formal qualities of painting framed by the ways how context and form interact. Ziemele adapts to site-specific settings that trigger situational associations. As a result, interventions are formalised through the medium specific peculiarities whereby the spatial and aesthetic experience is mediated in humorous and sometimes paradoxical ways.

Amanda Ziemele graduated from the Visual Arts Department of the Art Academy of Latvia, with a Bachelor’s degree in Painting. She completed diploma studies in the study programme of Interdisciplinary and Experimental Painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and was awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with a Post-Graduate Scholarship. Amanda Ziemele received Purvītis Prize 2021 for her exhibition Quantum Hair Implants at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga. Amanda Ziemele represented Latvian Pavilion in the Arsenale O day and night, but this is wondrous strange and therefore as a stranger give it a welcome at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024). Amanda Ziemele is a recipient of the Purvītis Prize 2021 granted for her solo exhibition Quantum Hair Implants on view in the Great Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga. As part of the Prize, she developed the solo show Sun Has Teeth (2023) at the Cupola Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art.

Since 2016, Ziemele has held several solo exhibitions and has been engaged in various collaborative projects as well as actively participated in exhibitions including Beyond at NISO gallery, London (2025), Under Forty at SAENGER Galería, Mexico city (2025), Duo Show (Ana Gzirishvili, Amanda Ziemele) at Polina Berlin Gallery, New York (2023), From “Abstraction” to Abstraction at Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego, Warsaw (2022), Lazybones at Natalia Hug Gallery, Cologne (2021), Riga Notebook. Following the Lines of Wacław Szpakowski, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland, (2021), Quantum Hair Implants at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2019), Being Like a Sponge, Candyland Gallery, Stockholm (2018), Crocodile Dilemma, 427 gallery, Riga (2016), among others. Amanda’s work can be found in several collections in Latvia and abroad, including the Latvian National Museum of Art, the VV Foundation and the Zuzāns Collection, Rīga.