Visual artist Egor Buimister Follow.Art Card

About me

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.
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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.