In March, we are thrilled to welcome Liene Rumpe to the residency.

Liene Rumpe (1996, Latvia) is a painter and installation artist who graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia in 2022 with a Master’s degree in Painting. For her Master’s installation, she received the BDO Young Artist Award (2022), and her solo exhibition “Acupuncture for a Cactus” (2023, DOM Gallery) was nominated for the Purvītis Prize 2025. She is one of the co-founders and the current director of the artist-run space DOM. In her artistic practice, Rumpe employs conceptual characters as a method to examine and interrogate specific ideas and archetypal entities. Through these characters, she systematizes and constructs her artistic and philosophical universe, which manifests in paintings, installations, and texts.

Rumpe draws inspiration from: 1) current geopolitical discourses, authoritarian ideologies, and populist, conjuncture-based statements; 2) the art world as a saturated decor; 3) philosophical literature, and 4) the pre-digital age.

The residency is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia (Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds).