MÄksla XO Gallery will be delighted to welcome you to the opening of two new exhibitions –Ā
LUCIANA MARIANOĀ Ā Ā
DREAMS, SECRETS AND TREASURES
Luciana Marianos
Maze of Life. 2024, acrylic on canvas, 150×100 cmĀ
We always have what we need to survive and we lose what no longer serves us. We adapt, we keep secrets, we play. The truth is in front of us and we keep chasing hope, butterflies, dreams and bubbles. We are captives to our stories, conditionings, time, and yet, absolutely free to dare,ā āĀ Luciana Mariano, 2026.
Luciana Mariano is an outsider of contemporary painting with a vibrant, colourful, humour-filled and provocative feminine narrative. Her work possesses both a childlike lightness and directness, an analytically sharp observation, and at the same time a warm, accessible manner of expression. Luciana Mariano is a storyteller both on her canvases and in the texts and poetry that accompany her paintings. She is not a quiet, standoffish observer ā rather, she is a rebel and an outspoken documentarian of reality. In her latest solo exhibition the artist explores the hidden emotions of the human experience, the symbolism of memory and objects, through dreamlike compositions ā the quiet poetry of everyday life. Combining contemporary naĆÆve art with the visual language of surrealism, she invites the viewer to enter worlds where tenderness, mystery and humour coexist.(Ilze Zeivate)
Luciana Mariano (1971) was born and raised in SĆ£o Paulo, Brazil. Currently she lives and works in Pirkkala, Finland. Since 2008 she has participated in more than 40 group exhibitions and arranged 20 solo shows worldwide.
Works in public collections: MIMAN ā Museu Internacional de Miniatures de Arte Naif (Paraty-Rio de Janero, Brazil), MIAN ā Museu Internacional de Arte Naif (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Museu de Arte de Batatais (Batatais-San Paulo, Brazil), Museu do Sol (PenĆ”polis-Sao Paulo, Brazil), MusĆ©e dāArt SpontanĆ© (Brussels, Belgium), Bulgarian Naif Museum (Sofia, Bulgaria), Castle Lysice Collection (Lysice, Czech Republic), Kondase Keskus Museum (Viljandi, Estonia).
At Maksla XO, this is already Luciana Marianoās third solo exhibition in Latvia, captivating both contemporary art professionals and international art enthusiasts.
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ANDRIS KALININS
PRUSSIAN BLUE
Andris Kalinins
Prussian Blue No. 12. 2026, oil on canvas, 32x24x3 c
āāPrussian Blueā is a new series of monochrome paintings in which I continue my long-developed creative position ā āPaint as The Protagonistā. The colour is not used merely as a means of artistic expression to create an image, but itself becomes the subject of the work. I look at colour as a material with a specific name, whose physical properties, history of use, and context most often carry references to history, power, politics, and aestheticsā-Ā Andris Kalinins, 2026.
Andris KaļiÅins (1994) is a painter and set designer who graduated from the Scenography Department (2021) and the Painting Department (2026) of the Art Academy of Latvia. His painting practice is grounded in the study of the physical properties of colour and an intuitive process, resulting in conceptual and minimalist yet visually saturated and expressive imagery. The artist regards painting as a process of thinking, inviting the viewer to perceive the essence of colour rather than its illusion.
Andris Kalinins is the laureate of the SEB Scholarship in Painting 2025. He has organised 4 solo exhibitions and participated in 5 significant group exhibitions, including āFigure in the Fieldā ā Morgan Lehman Gallery (2024, New York, USA); āIn the Name of Desireā ā National Museum of Art of Latvia (2024, Riga, Latvia); and āHow Iāve Been Feeling Latelyā ā Pauls StradiÅÅ” Museum of the History of Medicine (2023, Riga, Latvia).
Andris KaļiÅinsā solo exhibition āPrussian Blueā, on view at MÄksla XO gallery, is part of a more extensive series of works, which can also be seen simultaneously at the 2026 Graduate Exhibition of the Art Academy of Latvia.
MÄksla XO Gallery will be delighted to welcome you to the opening reception of:
LUCIANA MARIANO’s solo exhibition “DREAMS, SECRETS AND TREASURES” andĀ
ANDRIS KALININS’ solo exhibition “PRUSSIAN BLUE”
on Thursday, 4 June 2026, from 17.00 – 20.00Ā
Both exhibitions will be on view from 4 June to 11 July 2026
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