Vika Eksta (1987) is a visual artist and teacher. Vika creates conceptual art projects using photography, moving image, performance and research of audiovisual archives. Since 2014 she has participated in the exhibitions in Latvia as well as abroad. She has won the ADC Young Guns Award, the FK Magazine Portfolio Award and the Award for Young Photographers at the Riga Photography Biennial.
Seleted solo shows
Emoji poetry – Rainas un Aspazijas muzejs, Rīga, 2019
“P.” - ALMA gallery, Riga, 2019
“Vitol's archaeology” - Valmiera city museum, 2018
“Devils lake” - ISSP gallery (Riga) and KKKC gallery (Klaipeda), 2018
"Moving photography" - historical collection of Latvian Museum of Photography, 2017
“Snakes and Ladders” - www.anmgallery.com, 2017
“Dievs Daba Darbs” - Kaunas photography gallery, Lithuania, 2016
selected group shows
What even – concert hall “The Great Amber”, Liepāja, 2019
Belgrade Photo-month – Belgrade, Serbia, 2019
“Life and poetry of Eugene Bergs” - kim?, Riga, 2019
MELOS – Arsenals exhibition hall of Latvian National museum of art, Riga, 2019
New East Photo Prize – Calvert 22 gallery, London, 2018
Shaping desired futures – published by BOZAR, Brussels, 2018
Your received 1243 messages – Latvian National museum of art, 2017
Einaugiger Zuschauer – Performance fur die Kamera, Galerie GEDOK, Munich
Photobook “Dievs Daba Darbs”, Kassels Photobook festival dummy award, 2017
NEU NOW interdisciplinary art festival, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, 2016
Riga Photography Biennial, “Seeking latest in photography”, Riga, 2016
CIRCULATIONS Photography Festival, Paris, 2016
Contemporary Baltic Photography, group show in Bratislava Photomonth,
2015 Pingyao photo festival, China, 2015
teaching experience
Currently: teacher of photography for youngsters at Annas 2 and teacher at the ISSP school 2 years course of contemporary photography Since 2014 has been teaching courses and workshops on topics dealing with photography and creativity in collaboration with
organizations such as International Summer School of Photography (ISSP), Latvian Centre for Contemporary art, Latvian Association of Art Therapists, Riga Photography Biennial, World Film Festival etc.
education
2015 Master of Contemporary photography and personal projects, EFTI, Madrid, awarded by Roberto Villagraz scholarship
2013 – 2015 MA with distinction from Latvian Art Academy, department of Visual Communication
2006 - 2010 BA in film history and theory from Latvian Academy of Cultur