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Exhibitions

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Elza Sile combines mental imagery with analytic divisions and builds up an interwoven vocabulary of psycho-spatial typologies in flux. She was born 1989, in Latvia and lives in Zurich. In 2019, Sile graduated from ZHdK Zurich. This year, Sile is nominated for the Swiss Art Awards and we will present a solo booth at Liste Art Fair Basel. Recent solo exhibitions include at unanimous consent (Zurich, 2020) and Kulturfolger Zürich (2020). She has participated in numerous two-person and group shows, such as at KIM? Contemporary Art Center (Riga, 2020); Kunsthalle Zürich (2020); Hamlet (Zurich, 2020) and Galerie Kirchgasse (Steckborn, 2020). In 2020, Sile was a receipiant of the Werkschau Prize Zurich.

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Solo exhibition, kitten in a fridge, GALERIE PHILIPPZOLLINGER, 2021

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Russian young peppermint, 2021, oil paint, fineliner, cut-outs and glue on hand-tapped aluminium, 100 x 70 cm

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kitsune-go, 2021, oil paint and spray paint on hand-tapped aluminium, 100 x 70 cm

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Solo exhibition, GENEVA SET, espace_TOPIC, Geneva, 2020

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Group exhibition, Faktura (For A Nervous Spirit), KIM? Contemporary Art Center, Riga, 2020

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piss jacuzzi at feeble red star construction, 2020, markers, oil paint, cut-outs from LSSR Encyclopaedia, glue on aluminium, 50 x 65 cm