Board Member Vija Celmins’s Latvian artist grant and exhibition at Fondation Beyeler
American Friends of the Latvian Museum is proud to announce two new exciting events featuring it’s founding board member, Latvian-born, New York based, artist, Vija Celmins.
Vija Celmins Foundation Grant
On April 3, at a press conference at the Latvian National Museum of Art, the establishment of the Vija Celmins Foundation Grant to support Latvian visual artists was announced.
The Vija Celmins Foundation Inc., established in the United States to promote culture, in collaboration with the Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMA) and Latvian-born American artist Vija Celmins, will award an annual grant of 30,000 USD to one Latvian artist who works in the field of visual arts, starting from 2025. The Vija Celmins Foundation has pledged to fund the grant for ten years – from October 2025 until October 2034.
The aim of the grant is to support actively practicing Latvian artists or individual members of an artist group who have demonstrated high artistic merit in their creative careers. Vija Celmins has always taken an interest in the Latvian art scene and the fate of Latvian artists, how they, despite often limited opportunities, manage to practice art and maintain creative freedom. Vija Celmins wishes to promote art patronage in Latvia, believing that it is the duty of every wealthy individual to donate to a socially significant cause.
American Friends of the Latvian National Museum is proud to have been a partner in facilitating the establishment of this outstanding initiative that will help to facilitate the development of contemporary art in Latvia,
For more information about the VCF Grant, please click here.
Vija Celmins Solo Exhibition at Beyeler Foundation, June 15-September 21, 2025
The Fondation Beyeler will devote a comprehensive solo exhibition to the artist Vija Celmins, opening on June 15. The exhibition will display a selection of works produced by Celmins from the 1960s to the present day, bringing to vivid life the mesmerising effect of her pictorial worlds. It will also feature a small selection of sculptures—which Celmins herself qualifies as “three-dimensional paintings”. Finally, the exhibition will present a new group of works that carry forward Celmins’ long-standing and intense engagement with surfaces and spatial depth. The exhibition will be the most significant presentation of Celmins’ work in Europe in almost 20 years.
If you are in Europe this summer, we highly recommend visiting the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland for this outstanding exhibition of Vija Celmins’s masterful works.
For more information about this event, please click here.