Riga 2026

Artist: Ramina Saadatkhan
Curator: Viktoria Zaitseva

Ramina Saadatkhan builds her paintings through accumulation. Working in acrylic on canvas, she constructs richly stratified surfaces with layer upon layer of color, texture, and organic form, so that what appears on the canvas is never simply painted but deposited, like sediment. The collage sensibility that runs through her practice is not one of fragmentation but of assembly - the patient gathering of visual memory into a single, breathing surface.
It is within this layered architecture that her ideas take root. Saadatkhan's paintings navigate the terrain of identity, cultural memory, and inner transformation - not as fixed subjects but as living processes. Human, animal, and natural forms dissolve into one another across her canvases, proposing coexistence over hierarchy, porousness over boundary. Identity, in her work, is not something possessed but something carried - through history, through movement, through a life lived between worlds.
Saadatkhan's practice has been presented in significant institutional and international contexts, including the 59th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (2022), group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Baku, and multiple editions of Contemporary Istanbul, as well as exhibitions across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.