Daiga Grantina's 'Lilacs' Opens at Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre
Running from 2 May to 28 June 2026, the Mead Gallery at Warwick Arts Centre showcases 'Lilacs', marking the most comprehensive exhibition in the UK by Latvian artist Daiga Grantina. This display, created in response to the gallery's architecture and its changing natural light, features both new and existing pieces that expand upon themes from her 2020 solo show 'What Eats Around Itself' at the New Museum in New York. Grantina's work focuses on large-scale sculptural assemblages that explore material relationships, incorporating organic elements such as water and plants while considering the global material economy. The title 'Lilacs' refers to a spring-blooming shrub from Latvia, coinciding with the exhibition's timeline. Curated by Thomas Ellmer, the exhibition highlights Grantina's evolving artistic language.
Key facts
- Exhibition 'Daiga Grantina: Lilacs' runs 2 May to 28 June 2026 at Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre.
- It is the most extensive UK exhibition to date for Latvian artist Daiga Grantina.
- The exhibition extends concerns from her solo presentation 'What Eats Around Itself' at the New Museum in New York (2020).
- Grantina's practice uses large-scale sculptural assemblages combining organic materials (fabric, wood, wax) with synthetic ones (plastics, silicone).
- The title refers to the lilac, a shrub native to Latvia that blooms in spring.
- The exhibition was curated by Thomas Ellmer.
- The exhibition is developed in dialogue with the gallery's architecture and natural light.
- Grantina's works evoke living systems but resist stable categorization.
Entities
Artists
- Daiga Grantina
Institutions
- Mead Gallery
- Warwick Arts Centre
- University of Warwick
- New Museum
Locations
- Coventry
- United Kingdom
- New York
- United States
- Latvia