About

Jānis Šneiders, a rising Latvian artist, has been nominated twice for the Purvitis Prize – the most prestigious award in visual art in Latvia. Winner of the Claus Michaletz Prize (2020) and the NOBA Best Young Painter Award (2019). Janis Sneiders’ paintings are subtle reflections of the process and essence of depiction. With simple means of expression they represent seemingly ordinary pairs of opposite visual elements – dark and light, objects and shadows, background and foreground, black and white, visible and invisible. In his works, Jānis Šneiders is able to grasp the dramaturgy of the …