Born in 1965, Edite Grinberga grew up and studied in Riga, Latvia, part of the former Soviet Union. She attended a specialized fine-arts high school and the State Academy of Arts. Her artistic career commenced with installations, sculptures, and theater costumes. In 1990 a radical break in her artistic and personal path occurred when she moved to Berlin, Germany, and dedicated herself to painting. Her son's birth in 1997 initiated another major change to her current style of minimalistic realism with light and shadow as the main subjects. She has exhibited throughout Germany, Switzerland, and in the USA, Latvia, Georgia and Russia. Light and shadow in their ever-changing dialectic are the core theme of Grinberga’s paintings. They are interiors or still lifes which bathe seemingly commonplace things in a unique fall of light, with shadows cast by objects not seen in the picture. The paintings suggest a human presence only metaphorically, but the persons outside the picture-space and the events occurring before and after the depicted moment are the real protagonists of her work. It is through the medium of light that the flow of time is visualized. The unique and transitory fall of light brings the fragility of the moment into consciousness. This evanescence is sensed as the unexpected reawakening of a poignant memory, bringing back a stream of memories apparently lost. The ultimate goal of Grinberga’s paintings is to strike a chord in the viewer's feelings, and not only to convince aesthetically or rationally. EDUCATION AND BACKGROUND1975 – 1982 Janis Rozentals School of Art, Riga1982 – 1983 Studies at the State University of Latvia (English and Philology)1983 – 1988 Studies at the State Academy of Art, Riga (Painting and Textile Design)1989 Freelance artist in Riga: Installations, theatre costumes, and wax figuresSince 1990 Freelance painter living and and working in Berlin, Germany2011 Residency in Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, USA2012 Nominated for Losito Art Award Berlin2014 Audience Award Art Prize Esslingen-Nürtingen, Germany EXHIBITIONS 2024ART MIAMI + ART MIAMI CONTEXT ( with Barbara von Stechow Gallery and Galleria Stefano Forni), USAArt Week Luxembourg (with Barbara von Stechow Gallery), LUX"QUIET SOUNDS" double Show with Andreas Theurer in KUNSTKREIS HAMELN, DEART KARLSRUHE (with Friedmann-Hahn Gallery and Galleria Stefano Forni)POSITIONS ART FAIR BERLIN (with Barbara von Stechow Gallery) 2023"On the white Jetty" Solo Show Friedmann-Hahn Gallery, BerlinART KARLSRUHE (with Friedmann-Hahn Gallery and Galleria Stefano Forni)Double Show "Edite Grinberga - Painting, Andreas Theurer - Sculpture", [nbsp]Peters Bahrenbrock Gallery, Ahrenshoop, DE 2022Art Miami (with Barbara von Stechow Gallery and Galleria Stefano Forni) "Stilllives" in Peters-Barenbrock Gallery, Ahrenshoop Art Zürich (with Barbara von Stechow Gallery)Fall Show in Pryor Art Gallery, Atlanta, USA 2021"An Evening at Freemansend" Solo Exibition Friedmann-Hahn Gallery, BerlinArt Miami, Arte Madrid, Kunstsalon Zürich 2020Arte Madrid, St’Art Strasburg, LosAngeles Art Show, Miami Art Wynwood, Art Karlsruhe,Positions Art Fair Berlin 2019"The Still Life of Colours", Hilbertraum Berlin (with Gustav Sundin and SIMKA)"Extended time" Town Hall Gallery Historical Cellar Spandau, Berlin (with Andreas Theurer)St’Art Strasburg, Fiera dell’Arte Padova, Art Miami, Art Miami Context 2018"Time Between", Solo Exibition Friedmann-Hahn Gallery, BerlinArt Miami Context (with Galleria Stefano Forni, Bologna) (USA)Art Miami (with Barbara von Stechow Gallery, Frankfurt) (USA)"Rooms of the Others", Town Hall Gallery Villa Strecius, LandauEmbassy Rheinland-Pfalz in Berlin (with Andreas Theurer)Art Festival Winningen, Town Hall Gallery"Time Between", Solo Exibition Barbara von Stechow Gallery, Frankfurt 2017St-Art Strasbourg (with Galleria Stefano Forni, Bologna)Art Zürich ( With Barbara von stechow Gallery, Frankfurt)Art Karlsruhe (with Friedmann-Hahn Gallery and Barbara von Stechow Gallery) "Shared Light" Solo Exibition in Gallery im Centrum, Town Museum Wesel "Aatifi [&] Grinberga" Von[&]Von Gallery, Nürnberg 2016Art Zürich (with Barbara von Stechow Gallery) "Luce Errante" Solo Exibition Galleria Stefano Forni, Bologna St-Art Strasbourg (with Galleria Stefano Forni, Bologna Art Miami Context (with Friedmann-Hahn Gallery and Barbara von Stechow Gallery) Art Miami New York (with Barbara von Stechow Gallery)„Bamequinox 2016“, Museum Ixchel, Guatemala City, Guatemala (B) Cadogan Contemporary Gallery, London, UK, Group Exibition Art Karlsruhe (with Friedmann-Hahn Gallery and Barbara von Stechow Gallery) Art Zürich (with Gallery Barbara von Stechow)"Shared Light" Solo Exibition Barbara von Stechow Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany 2015”Through the Looking Glass” Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA (G)Art Miami Context (with Friedmann-Hahn Gallery) (G) St-Art Strasbourg (with Stefano Forni Gallery, Bologna) (G) „Bamequinox 2015“, Museum Ixchel, Guatemala City, Guatemala (B) „Geteiltes Licht“ [nbsp]Friedmann-Hahn Gallery, Berlin (S) Stephanie Breitbard Gallery, Art Market San Francisco (G) 2014Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New YorkART FAIR Art Karlsruhe, ART FAIR Kunst Zurich, CH(with Gallery Friedmann-Hahn and Gallery Barbara von Stechow)Final Round Exibition Art Prize Esslingen-Nürtingen (G)“Dwelling”, Gallery of Berlin Artists Association (G) 2013 “Pulse of Silence”, Gallery Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt (S)ART FAIR Kunst Zurich, CHCommunity Gallerys in Hameln, Schöningen and Hohenaschau (S)Final Round Exibition Losito Art Prize, Potsdam (G) 2012 Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, (S) Catalogue „Painting 2009 – 2012“ ART FAIR Art Fair Köln (with Gallery Friedmann-Hahn) 2011 ART FAIR Art Santa Fe, USA (with Santa Fe Art Institute)Gallery Esquisse, Nyon, CH (S)“Latvian Applied Arts Today and Yesterday” Riga, Latvia (G) 2010“Waiting for Vermeer” Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin (S) 2009Gallery K22, Berlin (S) 2008 Museum in the Waldemar Tower, Dannenberg-Elbe (S), Catalogue “Light Signs”Gallery Lindern, Lindern (S) 2007 Gallery Golkar, Cologne (G) Gallery Atelier Brandt Credo, Bremen (S) 2006 “40 Hertz Green “ Gallery Kunstoffice Berlin (S) ''Heimat'' (''Homeland''), Community Gallery Wilmersdorf, Berlin (G) 2005 Gallery Thea Fischer-Reinhardt, Berlin (S) Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sylt (S) 2003 Marburger Hängung (Marburg Exposition), Marburg (G) 2002 St. Thomas's Church Berlin (S) 2001Gallery Movin’ Art, Berlin (S), Catalogue “Detachable Shadows”Sculpture Park Katzow (S) 2000 ''The small happiness, the great longing'', City of Darmstadt (G) 1998 Gallery Les Beaux Artes, Berlin (S) 1997 Abguss Sammlung Antiker Plastik (Federal State of Berlin Museum for Greco-Roman Sculpture), Berlin (S) 1996 Gallery Hofkunst, Berlin (with Bärbel Dieckmann) (S) 1995 „Dezembersalon“ (''December salon''), Gallery Taube, Berlin (G) 1989 „Latvian avantguarde“, Kunsthalle Berlin (City of Berlin Exhibition Hall) (with Miervaldis Polis) (G) 1988 ''Paintings on fabrics'', Tiflis, Georgia (G) 1987 ''Young artists of the USSR'', Moscow, Russia (G) 1986 ''Young Artists of Latvia'', Riga, Latvia (G) S - Solo Exhibition G – Group Exhibition COLLECTIONSState Art Foundation, Riga, LatviaZimmerli Art Museum/Rutgers, New Jersey, USADome Museum Wuerzburg, Germany