Marta Gibiete - Cactus lamp 48 x 20 x 20 cm, glass
Marta Gibiete
Diploma in art glass from the Faculty of Visual Arts (3D), Riga Academy of Fine Arts, Latvia, 2005. She received numerous scholarships and grants for art projects between 2002-2016.
Award of the Ebeltoft Museum of Glass, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark, in the international Young Glass 97 competition; Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation Award, Hentrich Museum of Glass, Dusseldorf Palace of Art, Germany, 1999. Nomination for the Latvian Academy of Fine Arts Award, 2011.
Participation in 8 solo exhibitions and more than 100 international exhibitions, including. Young Glass 97, Museum of Glass in Ebeltoft; Women Glass Artists Today, Palace of Art in Dusseldorf, 2000; Coburger Glaspreis, Coburg, Germany, 2006, 2014; International Glass Exhibition in Kanazawa, Japan, 2007; European Glass Context, Bornholm, Denmark, 2008, 2016; "UFO Unique-Form-Object", European Glass Festival "Play with Glass" in Wroclaw, Poland, 2013; Lux Aeterna, International Glass Biennale in Strasbourg, France, 2015.
Her works are in the collections of, among others, the Museum of Glass in Ebeltoft, Denmark; the Palace of Art in Dusseldorf; the Ernsting Foundation Glass Museum, Ernsting Stiftung, Coesfeld, Germany; the Latvian Embassy in Berlin, Germany; the Museum of Decorative Art and Design in Riga, Latvia.
She enjoys cycling and picking mushrooms.
