Krista Dzudzilo’s first solo show in Estonia
Kogo Gallery based in Tartu, Estonia and Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga collaborate this year to exchange exhibitions. Currently, there is a solo exhibition by Latvian visual artist Krista Dzudzilo at Kogo Gallery – the artist's first solo show in Estonia, and later in the year, there will be Kogo's exhibition at Kim?. Krista Dzudzilo's contemplative exhibition all the possibilities that existed consists of works in a variety of media that invite to seek how to turn observation into awareness. The exhibition remains open until 4 May.
View from a solo exhibition all the possibilities that existed by Krista Dzudzilo at Kogo Gallery, 2024. Photo by Marje Eelma
The exhibition encompasses a series of new charcoal drawings that locate halfway between sculpture and painting and a series of small pencil drawings, a video work that tackles the notion of rushing forward while staying in the same place and a sonic installation, a quintet of out-of-sync metronoms. 19 attempts at tilting stability. The exhibition strives to show how to turn observation into awareness and asks: What does it mean to tilt sideways and find another axis – does that yield a new stability? How can you find movement in what is static? How can you change your perspective so that it comprises a new known and the known in what is new?
Video works “this is where she is” by Krista Dzudzilo. View from a solo exhibition all the possibilities that existed by Krista Dzudzilo at Kogo Gallery, 2024. Photo by Marje Eelma
Krista Dzudzilo is a visual artist working in a variety of media on a range of scales – from small, meticulously made drawings to large-scale stage designs for collaborations in theatre and opera. Krista has held six personal exhibitions and taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Latvia and abroad, this solo exhibition is her first in Estonia. She has earned recognition for her works at both local and international levels, her works are held in several national and private art collections.
Krista Dzudzilo, everything you say is true I, 2024. Charcoal, canvas, 80 × 70 cm. View from a solo exhibition all the possibilities that existed by Krista Dzudzilo at Kogo Gallery, 2024. Photo by Marje Eelma
In her visual art projects, Krista employs scenography, for example, as an extensive dramaturgy of space and active collaboration with the viewer, while in theatre, the space and costumes have a deeply symbolic meaning, often becoming independent works of art. She has earned recognition for her works at both local and international levels, including an award for the best concept at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2019, the Latvian National Theatre Award (twice), the National Design Award of Latvia 2019, and others. She has been twice nominated – in 2015 and 2021 – for the Latvian contemporary visual arts award: the Purvītis Prize. Krista’s works are held in the collections of the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art and the Latvian National Museum of Art, as well as in private collections.
Series of charcoal drawings everything you say is true (2024) by Krista Dzudzilo. View from a solo exhibition all the possibilities that existed by Krista Dzudzilo at Kogo Gallery, 2024. Photo by Marje Eelma
Krista Dzudzilo, BWV 1047 II, 2024. Graphite, paper, 38 × 38.5 cm. View from a solo exhibition all the possibilities that existed by Krista Dzudzilo at Kogo Gallery, 2024. Photo by Marje Eelma
The exhibition all the possibilities that existed is open from 28 March to 4 May at Kogo Gallery (Kastani 42) in Tartu, Estonia. It is part of Kogo Gallery’s this year’s programme Performing Existence.
Five kinetic objects all the possibilities that existed. View from a solo exhibition all the possibilities that existed by Krista Dzudzilo at Kogo Gallery, 2024. Photo by Marje EelmaF
