Zane Žeivate is a multidisciplinary artist, architect, and lecturer at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. Her art serves as a platform for exploring critical issues surrounding women’s rights, emotions, and lived experiences, with a recent focus on the position of Central and Eastern European diaspora artists within the broader contemporary global art discourse. Inspired by urban landscapes, Zane Žeivate selects familiar, functional metal elements and structures from the cityscape, seeking to manipulate and deconstruct them. She writes poetry and embroiders on spatial objects that she creates – sewing, screwing, and welding with her hands to construct visual metaphors that offer new associations within existing frameworks of spatial and political structures present in the city. Through these interventions, she aims to reshape perceptions of the built environment, encouraging a shift in how we objectify and understand our surroundings.

Zane Žeivate (1993) graduated from the Studio for Immediate Spaces, Sandberg Institute, Gerrit Rietveld Academie (MA, 2021, Amsterdam, Netherlands), and from Riga Technical University, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning (BA, 2017, Riga, Latvia). Since 2021, she has participated in several group exhibitions and projects in China, Georgia, Germany, Lithuania, and the Netherlands. In 2022, she debuted her first solo exhibition, Diary of Structures: 24.06.22, at HIVE, Tbilisi Art Fair (Tbilisi, Georgia), followed by her 2023 solo show As Long As You Want at Maksla XO Gallery (Riga, Latvia). She has been an author of articles for Latvijas Arhitektūra magazine since 2017 and published her essay collection “Your Wrist Smells Like Orange” in 2021.