THE JURY
Baiba Tetere
Baiba Tetere (1978) is a visual arts researcher and co-founder of the ISSP association. She studied History of Photography at De Montfort University in Great Britain, and is writing her doctoral dissertation about early anthropological photography in Latvia in the late 19th century. Since 2006 Tetere has regularly organised educational and art projects related to photography. Tetere currently works at the National Library of Latvia and teaches a course in contemporary photography at Riga Stradiņš University.
Daiga Rudzāte
Daiga Rudzāte (1968), art critic and curator, is also the editor-in-chief and one of the authors behind the conceptual idea of the culture and art portal arterritory.com, established in 2011. She is one of the founding members of Cēsis Art Festival (2007) and is the principal curator of its Visual Art programme. She has worked on several exhibitions that represented Latvian art at the Venice Biennale – both as the curator and commissioner of Latvian Pavilion (2011; 2017), as well as the producer of the exhibition Ornamentalism. Purvītis Prize. Latvian Contemporary Art in 2013, which featured at the 56th Venice Biennale as part of the public diplomacy and culture programme of the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. She has been the principal curator of the most significant Latvian Contemporary Art Award the Purvītis Prize since its launch in 2007.
Ieva Epnere
Ieva Epnere (1977) is a practising artist and lecturer in photography. In 2003, she graduated with a master’s degree from the Faculty of Visual Communication, Art Academy of Latvia; from 2011-12 she studied at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium. She has been participating in exhibitions since 1996 and her work has shown in many countries such as Belgium, Germany, Austria, France, Russia, Iceland, South Africa and Canada. She has been nominated in several contemporary art competitions: finalist of Henkel Art Award 2013; winner of Meesterproef Vlaamse Bouwmeester 2011 (Genk, Belgium); winner of Kim? Residency Award 2016. Her most significant exhibitions up to date include: How to Live Together, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (2017); Sea of Living Memories, Art in General, New York (2016); Identity. Behind the Curtain of Uncertainty, The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev; Pyramiden and other stories (2015), Zacheta Project Room, Warsaw (solo exhibition); from 2014-2016 she participated in The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen; 6th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015); Ornamentalism. The Purvītis Prize (2015), Venice. www.ievaepnere.com
Indrek Grigor
Indrek Grigor (1981) works as the gallery manager of Tartu Art House. He is an art critic for a number of publications in Baltics, podcaster and radio host for Estonian National Radio, occasional lecturer at Estonian Academy of Arts and part time curator. He has studied semiotics and art history in Tartu University. www.indrekgrigor.com
Marianne Ager
Marianne Ager (1971) works as a curator of mainly photography and film at Brandts Museum of Art and Visual Culture in Odense, Denmark. Marianne Ager has worked as a culture journalist, concert manager and dj. From 2010 to 2013 she wrote reviews of photography books for KATALOGJournal of Photography & Video. Recently she was a member of the Young Nordic Photographer of the Year jury panel at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Sweden. Marianne is interested in fine art photography with a powerful narrative but is also deeply fascinated by images that exist in the zone between art and the documentary.
Paola Paleari
Paola Paleari (1984) is an Italian free-lance author, editor and curator, currently living in Copenhagen. She has curated exhibitions in many countries including Italy, Denmark, Latvia and Slovenia and her writings have been published internationally. Among her main projects, she is Deputy Editor of YET magazine, a publication dedicated to international photography, and member of artnoise, a web portal and curatorial collective focussed on contemporary art and culture. Her main area of interest is the photographic language and its relations with the visual art practices. www.paolapaleari.net
