We are excited to announce the results of our Residency Open Call for the artists from Latvia! Thanks to everyone who applied – we are grateful to all the talented artists, who have sent their proposals.
VV Foundation in cooperation with the RIA Keburia Foundation have selected Liene Mackus as the winner of the upcoming Residency in Georgia.
Liene Mackus (1984) is a sculptor and animation artist who usually works with plasticine animation she herself calls the moving sculpture. Her début in children’s book art – illustrations for a children’s poem in the Bicki-buck books series (Liels un Mazs). The artist often pays attention to the social theme, but analyses it from a distance and with lots of unconditional love. She is also the nominee for the Purvītis Prize and author of an extraordinary environmental art object in Riga – a bench called Riga’s Lion (2015).