REVIEWERS

Marianne Ager (1971) works as a curator of mainly photography and film at the Brandts Museum of Art and Visual Culture in Odense, Denmark. She holds an MA degree from the University of Southern Denmark. Her particular field of interest is the concept of storytelling in literature, music and art/visual culture. For a number of years, Ager worked as a culture journalist, event maker and DJ. From 2010 to 2013 she wrote reviews of photography books for the Katalog Journal of Photography and Video. In 2016 she was a member of the jury for the Young Nordic Photographer of the Year award at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Sweden, and last year she served on the jury for RPB’s 2018 talent award.

Ager is currently conducting research in close cooperation with the Danish Film Institute for a large-scale exhibition on silent film actress Asta Nielsen, the first international superstar of early European cinema. Ager’s primary interests are fine art photography with a powerful narrative, portraiture with a twist, documentary work and short film projects.

Michael Biedowicz (1955) after ten years as a theater photographer at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, beginning to work as a picture editor (‘Bildende Kunst’, ‘taz’ and ‘Wochenpost’). Since 1997 worked for the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT, since 2007 picture editor of ZEITmagazin. Further works as a curator and gallery owner at ‘pavlov’s dog’ Berlin and participation in various juries (jury chairman of German Youth Photo Prize, PANL - Photographers Association of the Netherlands, Körber Foundation, Lotto Art Prize Berlin / Brandenburg, n-ost Reportage Preis and others). Curator of International projects in combination of Goethe Institut, ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) and others. Guest lecturer at the MERZ Academy Stuttgart, Design Academay Berlin and New School of Photography in Berlin. 2014 Appointed member of the German Society for Photography (DGPh). Since 2017 lectureship at Lette Verein Berlin.

Krzysztof Candrowicz (1979) is an interdisciplinary curator, art director, researcher, project facilitator and lecturer. He is the co-founder and director of the Foundation of Visual Education and the International Festival of Photography in Lodz, Poland. Since January 2014 he has been the artistic director of the Triennial of Photography in Hamburg and a curator of the Porto Biennial.

Candrowicz works internationally as a guest curator and visiting lecturer at numerous organisations, museums, schools and festivals in Europe and around the world. He has been a member of the jury for various projects and art prizes, including the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award (Arles, France), the Hasselblad Award, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (London, UK), the Historical Book Award and the Author Book Award (Arles, France), the Syngenta Photography Award (Basel, Switzerland), the Prix Pictet (London, UK) and the Robert Capa Award (Hungary).

Evita Goze (1984) is a Riga-based artist, curator and writer. She is currently a project manager and curator at the ISSP Gallery and for the Self Publish Riga photobook festival. She received a BA in photography from the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom and an MA in visual communication at the Art Academy of Latvia. In 2012 she received a grant to participate in a student exchange programme at the Nagoya University of Arts in Japan. She is also a contributing writer focusing on the themes of photography and contemporary art for the Latvian magazines Ir and Kultūras Diena, the FK Magazine and Arterritory.com websites, the British Journal of Photography and Tjej Land.

Saara Hacklin (1978), PhD, is a curator and theorist based in Helsinki. She works at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art as a collections curator. Hacklin has studied philosophy and aesthetics at the University of Helsinki. In addition to research and curatorial work, Hacklin has been a visiting researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie, participated in discussions about art and criticism through various publications such as the online journal Mustekala and taught art theory at a number of institutions, including Aalto University. Her recent curatorial work includes co-curating (with Kati Kivinen) Kiasma’s collection exhibition There and Back Again: Contemporary Art from the Baltic Sea Region (2018). She is currently working on the Coexistence: Human, Animal and Nature in Kiasma’s Collections exhibition project, which will open in April 2019.

Virginija Januškevičiūtė (1979) is the head of programme at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius, which is one of the largest venues for contemporary art in the Baltic region and is dedicated to producing a wide array of exhibitions and events while contributing to the cultural life of the city and the discourse of contemporary art in Lithuania and internationally. As a producer, CAC is focused on increasing the scope with which contemporary art interacts with society and enhancing opportunities for artists and other actors in the field. Januškevičiūtė has curated numerous exhibitions, including the XII Baltic Triennial (2014–2016) and solo exhibitions by Gintaras Didžiapetris, Dexter Sinister, Melvin Moti, Elena Narbutaitė, Eglė Budvytytė, Malvina Jelinskaitė, Robertas Narkus, Brud, Algirdas Šeškus and Valdas Ozarinskas.

Solvita Krese (1967) is a curator and the director of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts (LCCA) since 2000. She has curated a number of large-scale international exhibitions, the most recent being Portable Landscapes at the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (2018); Akademia: Performing Life at Villa Vassilieff in Paris (2018); Identity: Behind the Curtain of Uncertainty at the National Gallery of Ukraine in Kiev (2016); re:visited at Riga Art Space (2014); Telling Tales at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, and Kunsthaus PasquArt in Biel (2014); Alternativa at the Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdansk (2013) and others. Krese was the commissioner of the Latvian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). In 2009 she initiated the annual Survival Kit contemporary art festival, which she has been curating since then.

Shoair Mavlian (1984) is the director of Photoworks and is responsible for curating the 2018 Brighton Photo Biennial. From 2011 to 2018 she was Assistant Curator, Photography and International Art at Tate Modern in London, where she curated the major exhibitions Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art (2018); The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection (2016); Conflict, Time, Photography (2014); Project Space: A Chronicle of Interventions (2014) and Harry Callahan (2013). While at Tate Modern she also researched acquisitions and curated displays from the permanent collection, including Dayanita Singh (2017), Lynn Cohen and Taryn Simon (2017), Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen (2016), Close Up: Identity and the Photographic Portrait (2015), Charlotte Posenenske and Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (2014), Lewis Baltz and Minimalism (2012) and New Documentary Forms (2011). Recent independent curatorial projects include the exhibition Don McCullin: Looking Beyond the Edge (Les Rencontres d'Arles, 2016) and In Flux (Kanellopoulos Cultural Centre, Greece, 2015; Getxophoto, 2017).

Adomas Narkevičius (1992) has since 2017 been the Curator for Residencies and Alternative Education at the Rupert Centre for Art and Education in Vilnius, Lithuania. As a curator at Rupert, his focus is on creating environments for artistic and academic synergy between international tutors, artists-in-residence and up-and-coming Lithuanian artists.

He has initiated and curated a sound art and experimental music programme as well as a reading group programme at Rupert. Narkevičius also works with exhibitions of young Lithuanian and international artists in Lithuania. He is currently the co-curator of the Lithuanian Young Artist Prize show at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius and of the 7th Rupert Alternative Education Programme. He is a founding member of the experimental pop band Without Letters.

Andreas Nilsson (1978) is an assistant curator at the Moderna Museet Malmö in Sweden and also an independent curator and writer. With several exhibitions and projects he has navigated the space between the visual and performing arts, and he has worked extensively with artists and institutions in the Baltic region. A selection of his recently curated/co-curated projects includes Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd – Alias: CFR (Malmö, 2019); Groundhog Day (Helsinki, 2017/2018; Public Movement: On Art, Politics and Dance (Malmö, 2017); Laura Kaminskaitė: Something Something (Copenhagen, 2016); Mikko Kuorinki: I like to stare at things that cannot be read. Only in that way can the present be remembered. I need a menu to wash my car (Copenhagen, 2016); Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Motion (Malmö, 2015; Stockholm, 2016); The Visitors (Võru, Estonia, 2015) and Society Acts: The Moderna Exhibition 2014 (Malmö, 2014; Riga, Latvia, 2015).

Šelda Puķīte (1986) is an art critic, editor and curator of Riga Photography Biennial. She studied art history and theory at the Art Academy of Latvia where she received a Master’s degree in 2012 and is currently writing a doctoral dissertation on the influence of pop art on Latvian art. From 2014 to 2016 she was head of the Creative Studio exhibition programmes at the ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art. As the researcher and curator, Puķīte is especially interested in the points of interaction between art, popular culture and ever- changing social policy in Western society.

Vilma Samulionyte and Gytis Skudžinskas are artists and founders of independent publishing house NoRoutine Books (established in 2014). Their aim is to produce distinctive and unique art books in no more than 99 issues and to perfect each issue further in the studio once it has been printed. Publications by NoRoutine Books are exhibited at significant publishing and art centres and exhibitions, including the Rencontres d’Arles festival.

Amelie Schuele (1988) joined Unseen as their Exhibition Manager at 2018. In her role she curates and realises Unseen Amsterdam’s exhibitions, annual speakers programme Living Room and on-site projects. In addition to this she is creates events throughout the year promoting contemporary photography and the Unseen Platform.

Prior to her role at Unseen, Amelie was the Associate Director of Christophe Guye Galerie (2012–2016), where she worked with artists like Roger Ballen, Stephen Gill and Rinko Kawauchi, among others. Furthermore, she held positions at Galerie Eva Presenhuber and Hauser & Wirth.