Gints Gabrāns

gints@gabrans.com

Born in 1970 in Valmiera/Latvia. 1989 - Liepāja Secondary School of Applied Art 1995 - Latvian Academy of Art, Dept. of Scenography Solo Exhibitions: 2025 "ESX" gallery 427, Riga 2023 "Transfungus. Mushroom project" Elizabetes 2, Riga 2023 Mushroom Festival "Transfungus" SAN Metaverse, in collaboration with Rīgas laks 30 festivals, 30 countries around the world 2023 SAN supergalleries in collaboration with MetaHistory Museum, planet Earth, SAN space 2022 SAN VENICE Metaspace "antiZombie" Gallery #1,#2,#3 Venice, Italy 2016 – 2022 development of mobile application SAN, SAN projects SAN.lv 2022 SAN VENICE Metaspace "antiZombie" Gallery # 1, # 2, # 3, Venice 2021 Čak Trail, audio-visual route in Riga SAN Metaspace, Riga 2020 "Opening of the Grand Final", Dubulti Art Station, Dubulti 2020 "Rothko lift", Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils 2020 "New territories. Spring, 2020, LV ", SAN, Latvia 2019 "Lamprey is coming", SAN, Carnikava region 2018 "Opening of SAN office skyscrapers in Dubai, Shanghai and New York", House of the Architects' Union, Riga, SAN 2018 "Transreality Zirgu Street", Riga, SAN 2017 "SAN Holoportation Centre", Mūkusalas street 42, Riga 2016 "Mutant selection", KCCC, Klaipeda, Lithuania 2016 "FOOOD:2050", MVT Summer House, Riga 2015 "6 Heads", Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia 2015 "Out of nowhere", Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, Paris, France 2114 "FOOOD. War and peace", RIXC proj. "Café Europa", Spikeri, Riga, Latvia 2013 "Photosynthesis Purple", XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia 2011 "Bloodlight", Alma Gallery, Riga, Latvia 2010 "The Bright Sky", Watermans New Media Gallery, London, England 2010 "Photonpainting" , Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France 2010 ARCOmadrid, "Expanded Box", Alma Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2009 "White Point", RIXC gallery / Kim ?, Spīķeri, Latvia 2008 "Nuit Blanche", "Going Through Walls", Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France 2008 "Not a wave, not a corpuscle", The Anglican Church, Riga, Latvia 2008 "Paramirrors II. Chrystals." Riga artspace, Latvia. 2007 "Paramirrors", Latvian pavilion on the 52nd International Art Exhibiton of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy 2005 "Invisible. Special Effects of a Parallel World", Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius,Lithuania 2005 "Invisible", RIXC Media Space, Riga 2005 "Apparent / Invisible. The Island of Perception", Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn, Estonia; Hansabank Annual Art Award 2005 Premiere of "STARIX", Cinema l'Entrepot, "The 10th Rencontres internationales Paris", Paris 2004 "STARIX", 26th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brasil 2000 "Riga Dating Agency", Baltic Art Center C/O Galleri Enkehuset, Stockholm, Sweden 1994 "MG6", Gallery M6, Riga Group Exhibitions: 2024 "Oh, figure, who did you befriend yesterday?" Rothko Art Center. Daugavpils 2023 Prague Stage Design Quadrennial 2023, SAN environment, Prague, Czech Republic 2023 Song and Dance Festival Concert "Time Passes" stage design, SAN environment, Riga 2021 "Exhibition on the Moon", Riga SAN environment 2021 "MABOCA", Madona, SAN environment 2020 "SAN Foood office Paris", urban environment, Louvre Auditorium, Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin, Paris 2019 "The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100" Garage Museum, Moscow 2019 "Starpliktuvē" (on the Clipboard), Great Amber, Liepaja 2018 "The Purvitis Prize", Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga 2018 "Great Dying", SAN Space 2018 "Очевидное и невероятное", Gallery 427, Rīga 2018 "Ms BoCA blanket", Riga, SAN 2018 "1000 cubic meters of virtual space for sale", Kim?, Riga, SAN 2018 "Since I no longer participate in exhibitions and do not belong to so-called contemporary art…", "Nākotnes valsts", Arsenāls, Rīga, SAN 2017 "Teika Gate", Riga, SAN 2017 Positivus Festival, Salacgrīva, SAN 2017 "Plénière de Paris", Cite internationale des arts, Paris 2016 Article biennial 2016, "New Eden", Sølvberget Galleri, Stavanger, Norvay 2016 "SCIENCE INSPIRES ART: FOOD", New York Hall of Science, New York, USA 2016 "Ancient Relics" at La Escocesa, Barcelona, Spain 2016 "Open Fields", LNB, Rīga 2016 "SAN", "Withe Night 2016", Rīga 2015 "North. Transformative ecologies", RIXC gallery, Riga, Latvia 2015 "Transformative ecologies", the Maison du Design gallery, Mons, Belgium 2015 "Systems", LNB, Riga, Latvia 2015 "The Purvitis Prize", Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Latvija 2015 "Visionary Structures. From Johansons to Johanson", Bozar Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium 2014 "Metamorphoses of Molecular Life", Alma Gallery, Riga, Latvia 2014 "FIELDS", Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia 2014 "Visionary Structures. From Johansons to Johanson", LNB, , Riga, Latvia 2013 "MOVING_IMAGE. A contemporary ABC." La Gaite lyrique, Paris, France 2013 "Canticles of the Holy Wind" Choir Kamēr, stage design, Tabakas fabrika, Riga, Latvia 2013 "August: Osage Country", stage design, Mayakovsky Theater, Moscow, Russia 2012 "Lux Aeterna", The Latvian Radio Choir, audiovisual project, Cesis, Latvia 2011 4 Moscow Biennale of contemporary art "Rewriting Worlds'', the ARTPLAY Design Center and the TsUM Art Foundation, Moscow 2011 Special project program of 4 Moscow Biennale, "Aesthetics or Information Vol. 2", Zurab Cereteli Gallery, Moscow 2011 EPAC project, "The Nerves", public space, Riga, Latvia, Lisbon, Portugal 2010 "Minotaur", Spikeri Concert Hall, Riga, Latvija 2010 "A smiling lady on a tiger", Städtische Galerie Bremen, Germany 2010 "INTRAMOENIA EXTRA ART", Aragonese Castle of Taranto, Italy 2010 "The Take Care" exhibition of Baltic contemporary visual arts, Cesis, Latvija 2010 "Painting in Process", Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia 2009 "Energy" Art+Communication 2009, RIXC gallery, Spīķeri, Riga, Latvia 2009 "The Purvitis Prize", Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia 2008 Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany 2008 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain 2007 "Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid", Cinema l'Entrepot, Paris, France 2007 "Still here", Artspace, Sydney, Australia 2006 "Rauma biennale Balticum. Wake up!", Rauma, Finnland 2006 "Schiftscale", Estonian Art Museum Kumu, Tallin, Estonia 2006 "Video Art from the Baltic", Kunstraum Dusseldorf, Germany 2006 "Waves", Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga, Latvia 2006 "Suspense" , Kennedy gallery, Athens, Greece 2006 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary art, Thessaloniki, Greece 2006 "Mit allem rechnen", Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany 2005 "Europart", Vienna, Austria 2005 "Esanze", Ecole Superieure d'Art, Lorient, France 2005 "The 10th Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin".- Cinema l'Entrepot, Paris, France 2005 "Suspense", Apollonia exhibition space, Strasbourg, France 2005 "Trampoline. Global Cooling : The Side Effekts", Wolksbuhne, Berlin, Germany 2005 "Novart", Cortex athletico, Bordeaux, France 2005 the 9th International Contemporary Art Exhibition "Art Moscow", Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia 2004 "European Space", Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 2004.- Exhibition Hall Arsenals, Riga 2004 "Faster than History". Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland 2003 "Re:public", Culture Centre of Ilguciems, Riga 2002 "Fundamentalisms of the New Order", Charlottenborg exibition hall, Copenhagen, Denmark 2002 "Centre of Attraction", The 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania 2002 "The City. Stories about Riga", State Museum of Art, Riga 2002 "The Baltic Times", Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria 2001 "Contemporary Utopia", City space of Riga 2001 "The Baltic Times", Contemporary Art Museum, Zagreb, Croatia 2001 "Metronome", Contemporary Art Museum, Barcelona, Spain 2000 "The Human Project", Ilean Tount Gallery, Athens, Greece 2000 "After the Wall", Hamburger Bahnhoff, Berlin, Germany 2000 "Things", Gallery Noass, Riga 2000 "After the Wall", Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary 2000 "Bleibe" - as a part of the Exhibition "Z 2000", Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany 2000 "Social and Private 1984 – 2000", Museum of Art Arsenals, Riga 1999 "After the Wall", Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 1999 "Grammar", Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn 1998 The 2nd World-wide Latvian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Exhibition Hall Latvija, Riga 1998 Biennale "ArtGENDA '98".- Stockholm, Sweden 1998 ArtGENDA '98 Riga c/o ArtGENDA '98 Stockholm.- Congress Palace, Riga 1997 Internet Art Project "XChange", the new media festival "Art + Communication", Riga 1997 "Ostranenie 97", Bauhaus, Desau, Germany 1997 "Baltic Ikonopresss '97", Zamek Ksiezat Pomorskich, Szczecin, Poland 1997 "Opera"- the 5th Annual SCCA-Riga Exhibition.- Latvian Daile Theatre, Riga 1996 Internet Art Project "Riga Fresh", the new media festival "Art + Communication", Riga 1996 "Biosport" - sound and environment art project, Riga, Latvia 1996 "Geo - Geo", Pedvale Art Park, Sabile, Latvia 1996 "Art GENDA 96", Young Artists' Biennial.- Oksnehallen, Copenhagen, Denmark 1995 "Pedvālisms '95", Pedvale Art Park, Sabile, Latvia 1995 "Misfits", 6th Triennial of Young Baltic Art.- Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania 1994 "The Culture of Life", Grand Hall of the Stock Exchange Building, Riga 1994 "New Visions 94", International Festival of Film, video and Media.- Glasgow, Scotland 1993 Videofilm "Of Course, You are Right", 2nd French-Baltic Video Art Festival, Riga 1992 "New Generation", Museum of History, Tallinn, Estonia