Kristine Narvida
“Look how I move”

Kristine Narvida is a Latvian academic visual artist born in 1977. She graduated in 2006 as a Magister at the Latvian Art Academy in Riga. She lives and works in Germany in Potsdam and Berlin. She is an active member of the Brandenburg Association of Artists. She presents and sells her fine artwork throughout Europe and globally with online galleries. Kristine prefers working with oil on linen, using models as her subjects.

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 1”, 2021 Oil on linen – 40 x 50 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 2”, 2021 Oil on linen – 40 x 50 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 3”, 2021 Oil on linen – 30 x 40 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 4”, 2021 Oil on linen – 30 x 40 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 5”, 2021 Oil on linen – 40 x 40 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 6”, 2021 Oil on linen – 30 x 30 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 7”, 2021 Oil on linen – 30 x 30 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 8”, 2021 Oil on linen – 30 x 30 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 9”, 2021 Oil on linen – 30 x 40 cm

The relationship between certain parts of the work and its entireness excites me. I shape my space of solitude and the work that evolves lives its own life, defiantly independent of me. I like to wonder how colors happen and to maintain the dimensions in constant tension. That is instantaneous awareness of fulfilment that can just as instantly disappear. My search involves clear form-expressed messages in which what is present asks for the truth. The gaze is not a simple movement of eyes, it involves knowledge, experience and an explanation. I go through this process, overcome myself and this leads to the choice I have made and gives me joy as a creator.

Kristine Narvida, “Rot”, 2021 Oil on linen – 120 x 100 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 10”, 2021 Oil on linen – 120 x 100 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 11”, 2021 Oil on linen – 100 x 80 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 12”, 2021 Oil on linen – 50 x 40 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 13”, 2022 Oil on linen – 100 x 80 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 14”, 2022 Oil on linen – 100 x 120 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 15”, 2022 Oil on linen – 80 x 100 cm

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 16”, 2022 Oil on linen – 80 x 100 cm

It is important for me to know that this is exactly the real and only life, and not a place for nostalgia after another one. Through the understanding of time, the acceleration of which we can physically feel, through the vis-à-vis of a living human model, a pause is created, a place is created for the emergence of the present. Every line and every brushstroke are precise, just like every meeting with this person, a dream, a thought. A technical work with a thought makes it possible to see how the ideal becomes material. I observe the movement, participate in it, and this process is what gives honour and meaning, joy and suffering.

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move 17”, 2022 Oil on linen – 80 x 50 cm – Part 1 and 2

Kristine Narvida, “Look how I move” Exhibition view, 2022

Please do not hesitate to contact me via kristine@narvida.com should you have any questions or if you are interested in obtaining my fine artwork.

Dieses Projekt wurde über ein Stipendium des Deutschen Künstlerbundes e.v. – Neustart Kultur, des Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien finanziert.