CV / BIO - BEATE POIKĀNE

Beate Poikane

Short bio:

Beate Poikāne is a visual artist, theatre-maker, and scenographer from Riga, Latvia. Her artistic explorations manifest in various forms at the intersection of visual art and contemporary performing arts. Through methods of worlding and speculative storytelling, she crafts self-performing environments and performances with nuanced visual dramaturgy. The compositions are crafted as expanded ensembles of space, sculptural sequences and audiovisual expressions.

Her thematic and asthetical choices are informed by the observations of Latvian post-socialist landscapes of contradictions and socio-economic complexities. Taking an embodied female perspective she issues searching for ways to implement the regional specific experiences in the character and set build-up, morphing spaces with bodies and coming up with alternative narration. Outcomes question the potential for imagination to become a tool for reshaping existing relationalities, braking them and creating new connections.

Beate mainly works in mediums of installation and performance (directing, scenography, dramaturgy). She has graduated from Performing Arts at Stockholm University of the Arts. She has a master’s degree in Scenography and a bachelors degree in Visual Communication from the Latvian Art Academy, she has also participated in the Performance and Time Based Art program at the KMD Art Academy in Bergen. She is working in Baltic – Nordic region and internationally.

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.