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 (2015).

Indrek Grigor (1981) works as a curator at Tartu Art Museum. He is an art critic for a number of publications in the Baltics, a podcaster and radio host Estonian National Radio, occasional lecturer at Estonian Academy of Arts. He has studied semiotics and Art History at Tartu University and has prior worked as a gallery manager for Tartu Art House.

Evita Goze (1984) is a curator, writer and photographer based in Riga, Latvia. She is currently curator and project manager at the ISSP Gallery and the photobook festival Self Publish Riga. Her most recently curated exhibitions include Commissions by Diāna Tamane (ISSP Gallery, 2018), and ENTER. Photobooks from the Baltics, part of the Belgrade Photomonth (2019). Evita Goze is also a contributing writer for the Latvian weekly publications IR and Kultūras Diena, the websites FK Magazine, Arterritory, and the magazines The British Journal of Photography and Tjej Land, focusing on photography and contemporary art.

Elīna Ķempele is a curator of art and education events and a trainer of non-formal education. Originally from Riga, she currently lives in Berlin. She holds a BA in Arts (Latvian Academy of Culture) and MA in Cultural and Social Anthropology (University of Latvia). From 2014–2016 she worked as 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. In her work she pays special attention to socially and politically active art.

Adam Mazur, PhD (1977) is an art critic, art historian, and curator. His main interests are contemporary art and documentary photography. Founder and chief editor of BLOK magazine (http://blokmagazine.com/). Recently curated, together with Lukasz Gorczyca, a show on Central European photobooks at the Cracow International Centre for Culture (MCK) and published a monograph titled Mutilated World. Histories of Photography in Central Europe 1838-2017 (Universitas, Cracow 2019).

Paulius Petraitis (1985) is an artist, curator and theorist currently based in Vilnius. His work orbits around image-making within broad technological, social, and cultural contexts. Petraitis co-curated the first exhibition to take place via Snapchat: This is It/Now (2015), and curated the screen-based photography exhibitions Sraunus (2010-2013) and Blog Reblog (2013-2014). Under the alias Paul Paper, Petraitis has published twelve titles, including Contemporary Photography and Smoke Screen. He is the editor of Too Good to be Photographed, a publication that explores the intricate relationship between photography and failure through the work of 47 artists.

Šelda Puķīte (1986) is a Latvian freelance art critic, curator and researcher living in Estonia. She studied art history in the Art Academy of Latvia, receiving both Bachelor and Master degrees and is continuing her doctoral studies, preparing her dissertation about pop art influences in Latvian art. Šelda’s special interest is projects which examine the contact points between sociopolitical issues, mass culture and art executed through interdisciplinary research and whimsical presentation. Recently she has been working on several important exhibition projects, curating educational programs and creating catalogues for art festivals, participating in both local and international discussion panels, symposiums and lectures, and writing reviews and essays for Baltic press and publications. Šelda has collaborated with institutions such as the Latvian National Museum of Art, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga Photography Biennale, Tartu Art House, and Tartu Art Museum.

Astrīda Riņķe is founder of the Gallery Alma. She studied stage design at the Latvian Academy of Arts. She curates exhibition program of Gallery Alma in Riga and in international art fairs – Artissima in Turin, Art Cologne in Cologne, ArtBrussels and elsewhere.
Photo: Karlīna Vītoliņa

Marie Sjøvold (1982) is a photographer and video artist who lives and works in Norway. She has published several photobooks and participated in exhibitions at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; Liepaja Museum, Latvia; Centrum för fotografi, Stockholm; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Kristiansand kunsthall, Kristiansand; Nobel Peace Centre, Oslo; Fotografisk Centre, Copenhagen; Galleri F15, Jeløya; and Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, among others. In 2012 she received the Fritt Ord European Photo Exhibition Award. Sjøvold’s work is included in the collections of Fritt Ord, The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
Photo: Trine Hisdal

Jean-Luc Soret (1968) is an independent curator and event organiser in the field of photography and new media art. He was curator at MEP/Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris (1999-2019), and artistic director of the @rt Outsiders Festival at MEP (2000-2011). He has co-curated Hors Pistes Festival dedicated to the Moon at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2019) in the context of the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing. In 2015, he has curated the Campus Exhibition as part of the international Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria; retrospective exhibition dedicated to thirty years of artistic creation from different departments of the University of Paris VIII, pioneers in the field of digital arts.