Līga Spunde
Līga Spunde (b. 1990, Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian artist living and working in Riga. Her formal education includes a Master’s degree (2016) and a Bachelor’s degree (2014) from the Visual Communication Department at the Art Academy of Latvia. She has also studied at the In Situ3 department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (2015). Her graduation project The Hike was named one of the three best projects by graduates of European art academies. Spunde has been twice nominated for the Purvītis Prize (2022 and 2020) and was a recipient of the Kim? Contemporary Art Centre Residency Award (2023).
Spunde’s recent exhibitions include Episodes About Not Knowing at SLU Contemporary Art Gallery, Hammond, LA, USA; Magic Happens with David Attwood at KINGS, Melbourne, Australia; Measures at the contemporary art festival Survival Kit 15, the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia; Down the Rabbit Hole at MO Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania (2024); a panic attack on a sunny day at Tuesday to Friday Gallery, Valencia, Spain; Emotional Landscapes at Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania (2023); My Bitter Sweet Frankenstein Body at Titanik, Turku, Finland; and Screen Age III: Still Life at Riga Photography Biennial, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia (2022). Kogo Gallery has presented Spunde’s works at Esther, New York (2025) and Around Video, Lille, France (2022).
Spunde’s works are part of the collections of the Latvian National Museum of Art, the VV Foundation, Signet Bank, SEB, the Zuzāns Collection and numerous private collections worldwide.
Exhibitions at Kogo
Press and Publications
Interviews with Līga Spunde:
A Strange Reality in Fictionalised Voices. A conversation with Liga Spunde. Echo Gone Wrong, 11.2.2021
Artist Interview with Līga Spunde in De:Formal, 5.4.2020
Artist Interview with Līga Spunde in Swarm Mag, 2.5.2021
Rūta Spelskytė