From December 4 to 25 January, 2015 a solo exhibition of artist Māra Skujeniece named „Herbarium” will be held at Riga Porcelain Museum.
Māra Skujeniece is an outstanding Latvian designer with refined handwriting – heartfelt, delicate, transparent and convincing. During the creative process the impulses acquired from nature and the surrounding environment are processed until they turn into elaborated design objects. Māra Skujeniece has gained recognition and is known not only in Latvia, but also among the leading European designers and design assessors. For the exhibition „Herbarium” at Riga Porcelain Museum several design projects have been chosen – object groups, demonstrating the bond between nature and porcelain. The designer also allow the exhibition visitors to have an eye into her creative process. The exhibition is created as a part of her workshop atmosphere where the artist stresses that the process is a value in itself. Regarding the exhibition intention Māra Skujeniece says that in this exhibition she would like to show that a part of her work resembles that of a breeder. The exhibits shown resemble a herbarium of plants where carefully arranged are cabbage, leaves, flowers, birch trunk, however, it is not them, but rather vases, spoons and other porcelain objects.
Māra Skujeniece lives and works in the Netherlands. She runs her own design studio (Studio Mara Skujeniece) in Amsterdam and delivers lectures at (Design Academy Eindhoven). Studio Mara Skujeniece designs not only individual objects, but also their series or sets which then create a single environment for the objects. In designing her interior and furniture designs Māra Skujeniece uses porcelain, wood, textile and other materials as well as their combinations – the ideas from Latvian identity find their embodiment in the world class design.
Publicity photo: Māra Skujeniece, design object series with a motif of birch bark motif.