Young Guns 14
Vika Eksta
Visual Artist
Independent
Riga, Latvia
Vika Eksta is an artist and educator based in Riga, Latvia. She works on long term projects developing works in documentary and fictional. She uses photography, moving images, performance and audiovisual archives in her work. Vika has studied photography at Andrejs Grants' studio and EFTI photography school in Madrid, and has obtained a master's degree in visual communication at the Art Academy of Latvia.
Vika is the winner of Young Guns 14, FK Portfolio and Riga Photography Biennial awards for Baltic photographers, and has been nominated for the Purvītis Prize. Since 2014, she has participated in exhibitions in Latvia and abroad, including the Latvian National Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Gallery Alma, Westergasfabriek, ISSP Gallery, Kaunas Photography Gallery.
Her work is held in the collections of Latvian National Museum of Art, Latvian Museum of photography and private collections.
Award:
2016 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Vika Eksta
Client:
Latvian Art Academy
Title:
Dievs Daba Darbs
Category:
YG14
Annual ID:
YG14_233
Award:
2016 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Vika Eksta
Client:
Goethe Institut
Title:
Hallo Euro!
Category:
YG14
Annual ID:
YG14_234
Award:
2016 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Vika Eksta
Client:
Riga Photography Biennial/ Circulations Festival
Title:
Moving photography
Category:
YG14
Annual ID:
YG14_235
Award:
2016 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Vika Eksta
Client:
VETO Magazine
Title:
On the road (
Category:
YG14
Annual ID:
YG14_236
Award:
2016 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Vika Eksta
Client:
NGO
Title:
Self portraits in Jelgava Male prison
Category:
YG14
Annual ID:
YG14_237
Award:
2016 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Vika Eksta
Client:
Myself and my family
Title:
Sloboda
Category:
YG14
Annual ID:
YG14_238
Award:
2016 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Vika Eksta
Client:
Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art
Title:
Treasures of Jugla (
Category:
YG14
Annual ID:
YG14_239