"Between Reflections and Recollections" Kaulača and Koivisto

“Between Reflections and Recollections’’ is a joint exhibition by Kaisu Koivisto (Helsinki) and Vineta Kaulača (Riga) and developed from the collaborative project Double Vision, presented in the autumn of 2025 at Galeriaia in Helsinki. The exhibition explores how human perception is shaped and transformed through the interplay of personal memory, collective experience, and cultural context. It investigates the ways in which visual reality may be altered – transformed, refined, or reinterpreted – when filtered through layers of individual experience and memory. Within this framework, distortion is not regarded as an error but rather as a creative instrument, one capable of revealing otherwise unseen or concealed dimensions of reality. Bringing together painting, photography, sculpture, and mixed-media works, the exhibition establishes a visual dialogue between two distinct yet mutually complementary artistic practices. Colours, materials, forms, and spatial relationships interact to create a multilayered visual structure that underscores the complexity and ambiguity inherent in the act of seeing.  “Between Reflections and Recollection’’ invites viewers to reflect on the subjectivity of perception and on the ways in which images, space, and experience shape our understanding of reality. The exhibition encourages consideration of how what is seen can simultaneously function as both reflection and interpretation – layered, fluid, and continually shifting. The exhibition underscores the idea that perception is never neutral – it is shaped by context, associations, and the interplay between internal and external worlds.

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About gallery‍

MAKSLA XO Gallery is one of the Riga city’s most important galleries, located in Riga’s notable Art Nouveau district, at Elizabetes Street 14, on the ground floor of functionalist building designed by architect Teodors Hermanovskis.  Since its establishment in 1999, MAKSLA XO has focused on contemporary and emerging painting, sculpture and works on paper of Latvian art. The gallery showcases a diverse range of styles, from traditional representation to contemporary urban and social art, representing both Latvian and internationally recognized artists.   The founder and curator of MAKSLA XO Gallery Ilze Zeivate represents such important names of Latvian contemporary art as – Helēna Heinrihsone, Ivars Heinrihsons, Ieva Iltnere, Kristaps Ģelzis, Jānis Mitrēvics, Ilmārs Blumbergs, Ģirts Muižnieks, Kristaps Zariņš, Leonards Laganovskis, Vineta Kaulača, Paulis Liepa, Arturs Berziņš, Roman Korovin, as well works with international known artists – Marko Mäetamm, Bodo Korsig, Stephen Wilks, Erik Mattijssen, Michel Castaignet.

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