In Katrīna Biksone’s works, the inner world of a person is revealed through restrained forms, quiet spaces and precise visual accents. Her painting often carries a tension between closeness and distance – the desire to be seen, and at the same time the need to protect oneself.
The artist works with minimal but carefully considered means. Colour, form and space in her works do not create a loud statement, but rather an atmosphere in which the viewer can sense everyday reactions, habits and mechanisms of self-protection. This restraint allows what is essential to appear – presence, vulnerability and an inner rhythm.
In Biksone’s practice, painting often expands into space, approaching installation. This allows the work to become not only an image, but also an experience – an environment in which the viewer becomes part of a quiet, yet intense conversation.
Katrīna Biksone is an artist who received her Bachelor’s degree in Painting and her Master’s degree from the POST Department at the Art Academy of Latvia. In 2023, she received the SEB Grant in Painting, as well as the Young Painter Award in the Nordic and Baltic young artists’ competition. The artist has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and has also taken part in mobility programmes in Rome, Italy and at the Nida Art Colony, Lithuania. She has participated in exhibitions in Latvia and Germany.
Artist’s works in SEB collection:
“XXX”
Audekls, eļļa / Oil on canvas
150 × 120 cm
2024
