Dirty Romantics

Dirty Romantics is an art duo of Ivars Gravlejs (LV/CZ) and Katerina Berlova (UA/DE).

Ivars Grāvlejs was born in the deepest forests of Latvia and is often called the enfant terrible. He plays with combinations of languages, words and images, situations and mystifies the viewer with a certain infantilism. The art of provocation is characteristic of Graveley, who, as is often the case, can pretend that nothing special is at stake. The artist is currently teaching speculative spiritual photography in the Czech Republic and trying to eliminate his enfant terrible ego as Sunny Bumbulitis.

One day, Sunny Bumbulitis met Gumiyas Ezīti (Ukrainian teacher Katerina Berlova from Dnipro’s 9th floor) in the Carpathian mountains. The hedgehog likes to sneeze cakes, smell and touch interesting things. They called themselves Dirty Romantics. They like to explore the world and have fun. Dirty Romantics are inspired by the concept of mistakes and clumsiness. They pay attention to aestheticising destructive phenomena.