In October, we are thrilled to welcome Ernest Sabine to the residency.

Ernest Sabine is a Latvian-American artist based in New York City whose work explores memory, displacement, and the quiet dialogue between nature and personal history. Working intuitively with painting and natural materials, he reconstructs inherited narratives into contemporary forms. His practice moves fluidly between abstraction and recollection, guided by a natural, instinctive process that lets the work unfold.

During his time in Kuldīga, Ernest Sabine will develop “Between Two Breaths”, an installation of paintings, printed fragments, and mixed-media works. The project explores memory as both personal and inherited, tracing how fragments of the past are carried across people, places, and generations and continue to surface in the present.

The residency is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia.