Venus of Willendorf 21st Century is the bachelor’s work of Brigita Zelča-Aispure presented for graduating from the Department of Glass Art at the Art Academy of Latvia. As she worked on it, she and Professor Aigars Bikše, who supervised her thesis, offered the erstwhile Art Academy Rector Aleksandrs Naumovs to exhibit the work by the main entrance of the academy. Thus, from 2010 to 2018, this outdoor artwork stood by the main entrance of the Art Academy of Latvia, for which it became a sort of a “trademark”. In 2010 the work was nominated for the Diena Annual Award for Culture. In summer 2018 the work was taken away to be restored, because, as a student’s work, it had not been made to last, consisting of plastic foam and plastic. During the restoration, the Venus was to be remade into durable stainless steel, without losing its original aesthetic form. The Art Academy of Latvia had planned to find funding to restore the work and return it to its rightful place during the events of the Latvian Centenary, but this has not yet come to pass.

At Mobile Museum. The Next Season, a miniature version of the work (created in 2014), made from stainless steel and granite, is on show in lieu of the large-scale sculpture.