One Way or Another

Solo exhibition by Latvian artist Amanda Ziemele at the NISO Gallery in London / From November 12 to December 20, 2025

One Way or Another, a solo exhibition by Latvian artist Amanda Ziemele will be on view at the NISO Gallery in London from November 12 to December 20, 2025. Ziemele’s work explores the intersection of painting,architecture, and material thought.

Known for her structural approach to colour and form, Ziemele expands her pictorial grammar into space through three interdependent works — Wavy (blue, 2024), Double Crisp (pearlescent, 2024), and Close Your Eyes (orange, 2024). Together they form a living organism, a triad of wall, air, and ground in which orientation, breath, and presence coexist in dynamic balance.

The exhibition will include two works previously presented at the Venice Biennale, and will unfold as a lucid equilibrium where gravity meets suspension, thought meets matter, and colour becomes a method of consciousness.

The exhibition’s title evokes this state of oscillation — a lucid equilibriumwhere opposing forces remain open: gravity and suspension, thought and matter, clarity and silence. Each work becomes a mode of attention. Wavy defines vision as threshold, Double Crisp suspends light as breath, and Close Your Eyes anchors perception in gravity.

Ziemele’s language of clarity connects modernist precision with contemporary awareness. Her lineage runs from Philip Guston (embodied colour), Ellsworth Kelly (chromatic clarity), to Imi Knoebel (structural reduction).

In One Way or Another, painting learns to inhabit space and thought acquires volume — a quiet architecture of consciousness where perception itself begins to breathe.

Wavy, 2024 152 x 105 cm

Amanda Ziemele (b. 1990, Riga) lives and works in Riga, Latvia. Her past solo exhibitions include: With a Pinch of Salt, Saenger Galería, Mexico City, Mexico (2025); O day and night, but this is wondrous strange and therefore as a stranger give it a welcome, Latvian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2024); Sun Has Teeth, the Cupola Hall of Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, Latvia (2023). Amanda Ziemele was included in the following group exhibitions: BEYOND, NISO, London, United Kingdom (2025); Under Forty, Saenger Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico (2024); Back to Future, Kunsthal 44Møen, Denmark (2024).

Ziemele is a recipient of the Purvītis Prize 2021. Her work can be found in several collections in Latvia and abroad, including the Latvian National Museum of Art, the VV Foundation and Zuzeum, Riga.

Text by Christian Domínguez Dietzel

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