CURATORS

Inga Brūvere (1963) is an artist in Latvia. In 2001 she also began curating, and in the past 18 years she has organised several projects and exhibitions in Latvia and abroad. Brūvere is the author of the idea for Riga Photo Month and one of the festival’s founders (2012). She directed the first Riga Photo Month in 2014 and is also one of the founders and directors of the Riga Photography Biennial.

Anna Kedziora, PhD, (1982) is an artist and curator, and a teacher at the Photography Department of the University of Arts in Poznan, Poland. She co-founded, and now manages, an international photography competition, the Poznan Photo Diploma Award, and has co-curated and curated manyphotography exhibitions, including the Photokina Academy in Cologne, Germany (2014); the 9th Photography Biennale in Poznan, Poland (2015); TIFF festival in Wroclaw, Poland (2016); the European Month of Photography in Berlin, Germany (2016); and the International Photography Festival INTERPHOTO in Bialystok, Poland (2017). Kedziora has presented her own works, in both individual and group exhibitions and at conferences, in Poland, Germany, Spain, Greece, Wales, Sweden, Belarus, Lithuania and Slovakia. Her research and artworks embrace photography and language, photography and memory, tensions between nature and culture, and the embedding of nature within history, landscapes and power.

Elīna Ķempele (1985) is a curator of cultural and art education events and trainer of non-formal education. Originally from Riga, she is currently living Berlin. She holds a BA in Arts (Latvian Academy of Culture) and MA in Cultural and Social Anthropology (University of Latvia). From 2014–16 she worked as a curator of education at the ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall at the Latvian National Museum of Art. As a freelance curator, facilitator and anthropologist, she has participated in diverse interdisciplinary social and art projects. At the moment being particularly interested in the latest forms of art activism.

Tomass Pārups (2000) is an art critic and curator living and working in Riga. In 2018, as part of the Riga Photography Biennial, he curated a retrospective of the artists' union GolfClayderman, titled Video Salon, at Alma Gallery. Pārups writes regularly for Arterritory.com. He has written introductory texts for solo exhibitions by the artists Ojārs Pētersons, Ēriks Apaļais, Zane Tuča and Sarmīte Māliņa, as well as for the catalogue of Ivars Grāvlejs’ solo exhibition Outlet in late 2018. In 2017, Pārups published his first book, about the artist Maija Kurševa (Neputns, part of the Studija Library series).

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.