An exposition dedicated to the painting of the artist Andris Eglītis has been created in the gallery premises where works made in different time periods and within various series can be viewed together. Thematically, they cover the amplitude of Eglītis' abilities within small to medium-sized formats where the author does not document, but feels the landscape. The challenging nature of materiality, attempts to capture the relationship between light and dark, as well as everyday scopes meet on the surface of the canvas. Different moods come to life in the fragments of the “ignoble” city outskirts, portraits of spatial installations built by the artist himself, and wild interplay with the urban environment. Here you can experience storytelling, in which the artist speaks directly through the materiality of color and the scope of an ever-disappearing moment.

Andris Eglītis is one of the most important representatives of Latvian contemporary painting, who has proven himself both locally and internationally over the years. Graduated from the Higher Institute of Fine Arts HISK in Ghent, Belgium, received the prestigious "Purvītis Award" (2013) and was the head of the Painting Department of the Latvian Academy of Arts (2017-2020), represented Latvia at the 56th Venice Art Biennale in Italy (2015), and at the Kochi-Muzuris Biennale in India (2016).

He has created ambitious scenographies for performances, including Jānis Kalniņš' opera "Hamlet" at the Latvian National Opera and "The Lost Son" directed by Reinis Suhanovs at the Valmiera Drama Theatre.

Currently, the "Exhibition. Some Encounters of Imagination and Matter" by Eglītis is on view at the Latvian National Museum of Art. It looks back on "the findings of the author's 25-year-long painting process."