From March 6 to May 31, 2026, Inga Meldere`s solo exhibition Slings will be on view at Kuldīga District Museum.
The exhibition brings together works form different stages of the artist`s practise over the past decade, allowing them to be experienced as a unified field of thought in which certain methods, materials, and attitudes continuously reappear.
Within the exhibition, painting unfolds as an active engagement with the image — its making, transformation, and rewriting over time, as working approaches and forms evolve. The body of work is united by an interest in material, surface, and method: the origins of pigments, layering, exposure, and the presence of historical forms within contemporary imagery.
Sling invites viewers to experience painting as a slow, embodied, and attentive process, where meaning emerges through the act of making, its rhythm, and the resistance of the image itself.
The exhibition will be open to visitors at the exhibition and permanent display building of Kuldīga Municipality Museum, Pils iela 5, from March 6 to May 31, 2026.
Inga Meldere (b. 1979, Kuldīga, Latvia) is an artists based between Helsinki and Latvia. Her practice explores painting as an expanded and performative field through materiality, layering, image transformation, and processes of rewriting over time. Working across painting, installation, archival references, and restoration-based approaches, Meldere`s work reflects on memory, impermanence, authenticity, and the relationship between historical and contemporary visual languages.
She studied at the University of Latvia, the Art Academy of Latvia, the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, and graduated from the Painting MA programme at the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2021. Her works have been exhibited internationally, including at Helsinki Biennial, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Temnikova & Kasela, and other institutions across Europe.
