EXHIBITION’S PARTICIPANTS

Magdalena Andrynowska (1982) is a visual artist and photographer. Her practice combines photography with installation art, scientific imaging techniques, sculpture, and direct physical actions affecting the photographic surface.

Ieva Balode (1987), born in Riga, Latvia, is an artist and film curator working with analogue images. She is a graduate of the Art Academy of Latvia and also studied film and photography at Yrkeshögskolan Novia in Finland. In her artistic practice she is interested in matters related to human identity, which she explores through the language and philosophy of images — both still and moving. Drawing inspiration from texts, archival materials and nature, she seeks to find the border between human consciousness and the transcendence within it. Her interest in analogue media lies in its relation to nature and to human perception. Balode takes part in international exhibitions and film festivals, presenting her work in installations as well as in cinematic settings and through performance. As a curator she is a founding member of Baltic Analog Lab, an artists’ collective providing a space and platform for analogue film production, research and education. Balode is also a director of the annual experimental film festival Process, which has taken place in Riga since 2017.

Joanna Berg (1986) is currently a graduate student in photography at the University of Arts in Poznań. She works with analogue, often large format techniques. She pursues topics related to trans-body, identity, gender and representation.

Joanna Czarnota (1983) is a second-cycle master’s student in photography at the University of Arts in Poznań. She specializes in the area of documentary photography. Czarnota’s works refer to the Holocaust and the Second World War. In her works, she makes use of a large family archive.

Vika Eksta (1987) is an artist and pedagogue living and working in Riga. She earned a BA from the Department of Audiovisual Art and Film Theory at the Latvian Academy of Culture as well as an MA from the Department of Visual Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia. Eksta has studied photography at Andrejs Grants’ photo studio 2 Annas and the EFTI School of Photography in Madrid. She is interested in conceptual art and long-term photographic projects. In her works Eksta also uses video, performance and visual archive research. She has received the ADC Young Guns award, the Riga Photography Biennial 2016 Award Seeking the Latest in Photography!, and the FK Magazine portfolio award, and since 2014 has taken part in exhibitions both in Latvia and abroad. www.vikaeksta.com

Unlimited liability company GolfClayderman (Margrieta Griestiņa (1991), Aksels Bruks (1992)) is a multipurpose organisation established in 2016. They are active in a multitude of fields of art and life – performance, music, theatre, lifestyle, fashion, body art, and others. GolfClayderman encompasses all spheres of life and looks after the improvement of their quality.

Madara Gritāne (1991) is interested in the fields of photography and architecture. She has studied environmental art at the Art Academy of Latvia, interior architecture at Falmouth University in the United Kingdom, and photography at both the International Summer School of Photography and the studio of Andrejs Grants. In her practice Gritāne explores the interactions and affective relationships between humans and the environment, often returning to the area where she grew up to do so. www.madaragritane.com

Agnieszka Hinc (1995) is a photographer and a visual artist based in Poznań. In her projects, she takes up subjects related to the body, the human, time and space. She is interested in the structure of the human body, its relationship with surrounding spaces and the transformation of the human being over time.

Reinis Lismanis (1992) is an artist living and working in London. In late 2017, Lismanis realised his first solo exhibition at the Creative Studio of the ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall at the Latvian National Museum of Art. Since 2012, the artist has taken part in group exhibitions in Greece, Italy, China, Latvia, the United Kingdom, Slovenia, Switzerland and Hungary. His works have been selected for the portfolio viewings at Fotomuseum Winterthur’s Plat(t)form 2016 (Switzerland) and the SCAN Tarragona International Festival of Photography (Spain). His works have been published in Aesthetica Magazine, Source Photographic Review and The Telegraph, as well as in the books Laboratori (published by Ca l’Isidret Edicions), Latvian Photography 2015 (published by FK Magazine) and Paperweight Vol. 1 (published by Popper Publishing). Lismanis’ works have been nominated for the Magnum Photos and Photo London Graduate Photographers award and Metronom gallery's Artifact Prize 2018. In 2014, Lismanis graduated from the University of Brighton, winning the Tom Buckeridge Photography Award.

Magdalena Machnicka (1978) is a third-year year student in photography at the Faculty of Multimedia at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań. She photographs with the intention of tracking the invisible.

Annija Muižule (1992) is a Latvian-born visual artist and researcher currently working and living in the Netherlands. While obtaining a BA with a major in photography from the Royal Academy of Art in Hague, her work underwent a radical shift from telling stories through images to telling stories about how images are made and their modes of existence. Finding herself increasingly confronted with overwhelming amounts of visual information, Muižule began questioning the human capacity to comprehend visual culture. Most importantly, she wanted to know: How visually literate are we, actually? By reflecting on photography as a technology, a medium, and a form of communication, she attempts to ‘un-learn’ and question the lessons photography has taught us.

NoRoutine Books was established as an independent publisher by the Lithuanian artists Gytis Skudžinskas (1975) and Vilma Samulionyte (1978) in 2014. Their aim was to create unique art books – in print runs of no more than 99 copies – that would be individually perfected in the studio after printing. Books made by NoRoutine Books have been exhibited in various important art centres and exhibitions.

Katarzyna Bojko-Szymczewska (1975), in addition to digital photography, often uses alternative photographic methods such as wet plate collodion, cyanotype, and the use of pinhole cameras in order to explore and experience the potential of these more traditional techniques.

Diāna Tamane (1986) was born in Riga and currently lives and works in Tartu. She completed her bachelor’s studies at Tartu Art College and master’s studies at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. From 2015 to 2016 she studied at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent, Belgium. The typical formats of Tamane’s works are photography, video and text, and they typically also include found objects and autobiographical elements. Her works have been exhibited at the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Kim? Contemporary Art Center (Latvia), Tartu Art Museum (Estonia), S.M.A.K. (Belgium), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland), the Kathmandu Triennale (Nepal), Surplus Space (China), Triumph Gallery (Russia), A Gentil Carioca gallery (Brazil) and elsewhere. Her works are held in the collection of Fotomuseum Winterthur and in private collections. In 2018, Tamane was the recipient of the Riga Photography Biennial award, Seeking the Latest in Photography!.

Aurelia Frydrych-Zdanowska (1981) is interested in projects combining science, art and documentary. She cooperates with the Frydrych & Zdanowski duo, producing advertising and documentary films as well as developing photographic projects.

Piotr Zugaj (1991) is an art historian who has been studying photography at University of Fine Arts in Poznan since 2016. He is interested in documentary photography and image theory.