Roman Korovin

Romāns Korovins (1973–2026) was a Latvian artist who worked across various media, including photography, drawing, video, installation, and painting. He also worked as a director of music videos, commercials, and short films.

Korovins graduated from the Jaņa Rozentāls Riga Art School and later from the Department of Graphic Art at the Art Academy of Latvia, where he earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He began his artistic career as a painter, but in the mid-1990s turned to video, and later to photography. In 2006 and 2007, he received the Latvian Annual Photography Award.

From 2019 onwards, Korovins gradually shifted from photography towards a form of painting closely connected to everyday life and marked by deliberate restraint. In 2025, he received the Purvītis Prize for his solo exhibition “Nomirsim kopā” at the Rothko Museum in Daugavpils.

Korovins’s work is characterised by an anti-sublime poetics, precise observation of the everyday, visual paradoxes, and subtle humour. His works often take the form of witty, anecdotal episodes, grouped in diptychs or triptychs, where new meanings emerge through their interaction.