Egor Buimister is a contemporary Latvian artist mainly working in painting and drawing techniques.
His practice, which is significantly influenced by literature, is structured around the concepts of memory, religion and nature. It explores emanations, silhouettes and shadows of the scenes that do not fully belong to the world that is given to us in perception. Egor’s work depicts the scenes of an individual’s encounter with the unknown, be it in familiar or unfamiliar objects, places or circumstances.
Egor’s artistic manner explores the lightness and vulnerability of watercolour paint, creating images that resemble faded pictures or cut-outs from some long lost album — the objects, seemingly detached from the abstract background, create an effect of being suspended in the void, a factual reality juxtaposed against pure space.
Egor has studied in Camberwell College of Arts, Goldsmiths and King’s College London. His works were exhibited in multiple solo and group shows, such as “An Encounter“ (Riga, 2022), “Young Contemporaries” (London, 2019), and XI Young Painter Prize Finalists Exhibition (Vilnius, 2019). Egor’s art is included in private collections in the United States, the United Kingdom, Latvia, Sweden and Russia, as well as in the collection of Noewe Foundation in Lithuania.
Selected Exhibitions
2022
• An Encounter (Riga, Latvia) [Solo]
• Lewben Art Foundation Collection (Seoul, Republic of Korea) [Group]
2021
• Exhibition 1.1 SAMO (Riga, Latvia) [Group]
• Group Show at Shrine NYC (Virtual) [Group]
2020
• Some Ghost Stories (Riga, Latvia) [Solo]
• Con-Non-Con (Riga, Latvia) [Group]
2019
• Young Contemporaries (London, United Kingdom) [Group]
• Timespace Discovery (Riga, Latvia) [Group]
• Orbit UK Graduates Show (London, United Kingdom) [Group]
• Camberwell Degree Show (London, United Kingdom) [Group]
• P2 (London, United Kingdom) [Group]
2018
• New Camberwell Art (London, United Kingdom) [Group]
• AAF Hampstead (London, United Kingdom) [Group]
• Over Capacity (London, United Kingdom) [Group]
2017
• Siltais Zimulis (Riga, Latvia) [Group]
2015
• Riga Art Fair (Riga, Latvia) [Solo]
2014
• Alef (Riga, Latvia) [Solo]
Education
• 2020 – 2021 — MA Arts & Cultural Management, King's College London (London, United Kingdom)
• 2019 – 2020 — MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College (London, United Kingdom)
• 2016 – 2019 — BA (Hons) Painting, Camberwell College of Arts (London, United Kingdom)
Press
• Домская площадь с Алисой Орловой, 10.01.2021, 9:05 (Rus)
• Memes un spoku stasti – divu jauno makslinieku otras izstades (Lat)
• Молодой художник Егор Буймистер: «Каждая история любви — это история привидения» (Rus)
• Freelancer of the month - Pixie Tan and Egor Buimister (Eng)
• Made in Arts London: Rising Stars (Eng)
• Dailes teatri bus makslinieku grupas 'Pasiva dekadence' rikota izstade 'Siltais Zimuls' (Lat)
• Килобайт культуры: Тот самый Буймистер, решивший стать художником (Rus)
Writings
• Holding the Line (Dailė/Art)
• Path Unsure (Dailė/Art)
• Strangeness Everywhere (VIP Lounge)
• Cathedral in the Pines (Dailė/Art)
• Souls by the Sea (Dailė/Art)
• After the End (Jezga)
• We Will All Die by the Sun (FreeCity Riga)
• For I understand thine age-old sadness (The Epiphanie)
• Ilya Kabakov: “Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future” (The Epiphanie)
• “Book of Nineteen Nocturnes” by Jim Holyoak (BLOOME Magazine)
Art Publications
• ARTIT Issue 12 - Portraits & Figures (London, United Kingdom)
• Sober Magazine Issue 3 (Online)
• Kekargalvis / Hydra Head (Popper Publishing, Riga)
• SE5 Magazine, Issue 1: Talent (SE5 Magazine, London)