Amanda Ziemele (b.1990) is a Riga-based artist who keeps her artistic practice open for different explorations. She is interested in the formal qualities of painting framed by the ways how context and form interact. Ziemele adapts to site-specific settings that trigger situational associations. As a result, interventions are formalised through the medium specific peculiarities whereby the spatial and aesthetic experience is mediated in humorous and sometimes paradoxical ways.

Amanda Ziemele graduated from the Visual Arts Department of the Art Academy of Latvia, with a Bachelor’s degree in Painting. She completed diploma studies in the study programme of Interdisciplinary and Experimental Painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and was awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with a Post-Graduate Scholarship. Amanda Ziemele is a recipient of the ‘Purvītis Prize 2021’ granted for her solo exhibition Quantum Hair Implants on view in the Great Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga. As part of the Prize, she developed the solo show Sun Has Teeth (2023) at the Cupola Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art. Amanda Ziemele represented Latvian Pavilion in the Arsenale O day and night, but this is wondrous strange and therefore as a stranger give it a welcome at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024).

Since 2016, Ziemele has held several solo exhibitions and has been engaged in various collaborative projects as well as actively participated in exhibitions including Beyond at NISO gallery, London (2025), Under Forty at SAENGER Galería, Mexico city (2025), Duo Show (Ana Gzirishvili, Amanda Ziemele) at Polina Berlin Gallery, New York (2023), From “Abstraction” to Abstraction at Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego, Warsaw (2022), Lazybones at Natalia Hug Gallery, Cologne (2021), Riga Notebook. Following the Lines of Wacław Szpakowski, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland, (2021), Quantum Hair Implants at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2019), Being Like a Sponge, Candyland Gallery, Stockholm (2018), Crocodile Dilemma, 427 gallery, Riga (2016), among others. Amanda’s work can be found in several collections in Latvia and abroad, including the Latvian National Museum of Art, the VV Foundation and the Zuzāns Collection, Rīga.

Solo shows

  • This World and Other Worlds Too, PAiR gallery, Pāvilosta, Latvia, 2025

  • O day and night, but this is wondrous strange…and therefore as a stranger give it welcome , The Latvian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition— La Biennale di Venezia, 2024

  • Sun Has Teeth, The Cupola Hall of the main building of the Latvian National Art Museum, Riga, Latvia, 2023

  • Lazybones, Natalia Hug Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 2021

  • Neunauge, Gallery NEMO, Eckernförde, Germany, 2019/2020

  • Quantum Hair Implants at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2019

  • Fish with Legs at former elephant stable of Riga Circus, as a part of the visual art programme of the theatre troupe KVADRIFRONS, Riga, Latvia, 2018/2019

  • Being like a sponge, artist-run space Candyland, Stockholm, 2018

  • The Crocodile Dilemma, Gallery 427, Riga, Latvia, 2016

Duo and Group shows (selected)

  • Amanda Ziemele & Casey Bolding, Polina Berlin Gallery, Riga Contemporary, Latvia,2025

  • BEYOND, NISO gallery, London, 2025

  • Under Forty, Saenger Gallery, Mexico City, 2024

  • Back to Future, Kunsthal 44Møen, Denmark, 2024

  • 427 Collection, Gallery 427, Riga, 2024

  • In the Name of Desire, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, 2024

  • Emotional Intelligence II, Polina Berlin gallery, New York, 2024

  • Der Demokratishe Raum, Review Ostsee-Biennale, Kunsthalle Rostock, 2024

  • Ana Gzirishvili, Amanda Ziemele, Polina Berlin gallery, New York, 2023

  • Sardines, Garage Gallery, Prag, the Czech Republic, 2023

  • From “Abstraction” to Abstraction, Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego, Warsaw, 2022

  • DGS Dream, MABOCA festival, Madona, Latvia, 2021

  • Riga Notebook. Following the Lines of Wacław Szpakowski, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland, 2021

  • Palette: Three-legged Evidence, hosted and invited by Daria Melnikova, Salon du salon, as part of Roots to Routes, Manifesta 13, Les Paralleles du Sud, Marseille, France, 2020

  • Sol LeWitt WD #719, executed by Elīna Vītola and Amada Ziemele, Gallery 427, Riga, Latvia, 2020

  • Commission, Elīna Vītola, Amanda Ziemele and Marta Trektere, Elephant Stables at Riga Circus, Riga, Latvia, 2019

  • Black Market, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2019

  • Kā skan, Tā atskan, No Moon, New York, 2019

  • Eimanda Zeina Collection Exhibition, a collaboration project with artist Hanele Zane Putniņa, at the Creative Studio of the ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia, 2019

  • Life Beneath Eternity, curated by Gallery 427, as a part of Project Space Festival at Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin, Germany, 2019

  • Monumental Café, collaboration project with a painter and co-founder Elīna Vītola, Consumer Society Hall, MABOCA festival, Madona, Latvia, 2019

  • STARTPOINT.18 Prize for European art graduates exhibition, Gallery Dům pánů z Kunštátu, Brno, the Czech Republic, 2018

  • Tension. The Young in Latvian Painting III,  ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall of Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMA), Riga, Latvia, 2016

  • Monograph for the Unknown Artist M.S., Gallery 427, Riga, Latvia, 2015

Awards

  • The Purvītis Prize 2021

  • The BDO Latvia award for the support of young artists, 2020

  • Freundeskreis der HfBK Diplompreis 2018 Award for Diploma Project, 2018

  • DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship holder for Foreign Graduates and Post-gradual studies in the Fields of Fine Art, 2016-2018

Other

Tutor at the Art Academy of Latvia, Faculty of Visual Arts: MA POST department (2019-2025)

LOW gallery together with Elīna Vītola and Ieva Kraule-Kūna (2019-2021)

Waitress at ‘Monumental Café’ together with artist Elīna Vītola (2019 -..)

Co-curator at Riga Circus Elephant Stables (2019/2020),

Part of the MEMBRA musical theatre team