CV / BIO - BEATE POIKĀNE

Beate Poikane

Beate Poikāne is a Latvian visual artist, theatre maker, and scenographer. Her artistic explorations manifest in various visual forms at the intersection of visual art and contemporary theatre, creating self-performing environments and visual performances. Thematically, she explores how imagination relates to the experience of space, investigating how the ideas of fictional worlds are interlinked with the perception of the physical world. Spaces and sequences of sculptural objects are at the center of her compositions. Her works play with the decentralisation of human actors, introduce non-human performers, and shifting hierarchies of theatre elements. She holds an MA degree in Scenography and a BA degree in Visual Communication from the Art Academy of Latvia, and she is continuing her education in Performing Arts at Stockholm University of the Arts as part of the master’s program.

Education:

2023-2025 Performing arts MA, Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola

2021-2023 Scenography MA, Art Academy of Latvia, Faculty of Audio-Visual Media

2022 KMD Performance and Time based art MA. The Faculty of Fine Art, Bergen, Norway.

2017 – 2021 Visual Communication BA,Art Academy of Latvia, Faculty of Audio-Visual Media Art.

2013 – 2017 Janis Rozentals art school. JRMS Vocational education competence centre National School of Arts.

Upcoming:

Performance “Air reservoir” (concept, scenography, directing) premiere at Homo Novus festival, Riga, Latvia, 30.,31.August 2024.

Creative work:

Scenography for “Unfinished Business” by choreographer Hannah Krebs, MDT Moderna dansteatern, Stockholm, Sweeden, premiere 1.May.

Solo exhibition “Parade of flying episodes”, Riga art space. Sound by Andrejs Poikans, curated by Viktoria Weber. Riga, Latvia. 01.02.-29.02.2024.

Scenography for “Hold me tight” by Arturs Cukurs, collaboration with scenographer Marta Grantina, choreographer Alise Boksldere, dramaturge Sodja Lotker. Premiered on 15.02.2024.

Performance “Thing Tails” with Clea Filippa, Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway. permiered on 09.12.2023.

Residency Bergen Kunsthall Live studio 27.02-10.03.2023.

Scenography for “Bleaching Fields”, composers Ernsests Vilsons soundpiece. Liepaja, Latvia 14.01.2023.

“Oscilating Bests and other revalations” performed in Knut Knaus, KMD Bergen, Norway. KMD performance night 14.12.2022.

“Oscilating Bests and other revalations” peremire in Ostre as part of Bergen International Theatre Theatregarasjen program Proverommet, Bergen, Norway. 05.12.2022.

Group exhibition “Synchronities”, Vagonu street exhibition venue. Participation with commisioned installation “Solo Walker Riga”, Riga, Latvia. 10.-26.08.2022.

Group exhibition “My heartshaped fiskakaker won’t fit in my suitcase” Gallery Taxi, Bergen, Norway. Participation with installation “Wondering in an aimless manner”. 26.05.-02.06.2022.

MA group show at Bergen Kjott, With installation “Ode to the daydream of freshly curved tunnel” 19.-20.05.2022. Bergen, Norway.

Group performance “Sensual Novelty” guided by Nicola Gunn, Jinoos, KMD Bergen, Norway. 31.03.2022.

23.-31.08.2021. Group exhibition “Bankets II/ Banquet II” at DOM gallery, Riga.

02.06.-13.06.2021. Solo exhibition “Šķietami apslēptais/ Seemingly hidden” at DOM gallery, Riga. Various media installation. Concluded with performance at 13.June, performed by singers Henrijs Poikāns and Dārta Liepiņa, poetry by Ieva Viese.

18.01.-28.02.2021. Sansusī residency, making of a sound and video piece “Nevaru saprast no kurienes tā balss nāk/ I can’t understand where does the sound come from” in collaboration with artist Henrijs Laķis.

12.11.-31.12.2020. Group exhibition “Hard Drive Of Lost Expressions’’second part in LMA experimental art gallery, Rihard Vagner street 3, Riga. Participation with video installation “Vanšu vīzija”, video work “Vanšu vīzija” (Cable bridge vision) (2020) has been included in Latvian video art archive.

7.-8.11.2020. Solo exhibition “DIPTYCH” Slokas street 3. Installation for one room with two windows.

05.09.2020.-31.10.2020. Riga Sculpture quadrienal, “trauslu objektu pārvietošana / fragile object relocation” with sculptor Anda Poikāne and poet Marija Luīze Meļķe. Project included regular performances with sculptures. 30.07.-13.08.2020. Group exhibition “Bankets” at bookshop Bolderāja, Riga.