CURATORS

Inga Brūvere (1963) is an artist based in Latvia. In 2001 she also began curating, and in the past 20 years she has organised numerous projects and exhibitions in Latvia and abroad. Brūvere is the author of the idea for Riga Photomonth and one of the festival’s founders (2012). She directed the first Riga Photomonth in 2014 and is also one of the founders and directors of the Riga Photography Biennial (2015).

Auguste Petre (1993) is an independent curator and researcher of art processes. She graduated from the Latvian Academy of Culture and obtained a master's degree from the Arts Academy of Latvia, in the field of art history and curatorial studies. Petre's interests mainly lie in the relationship between politics and art, interdisciplinary manifestations in visual art, as well as the creative expression of Latvian artists born in the 1990s.

Since 2017, Petre has been working as an art journalist, creating articles for Latvian and foreign media, and working as Baltic editor for Arterritory.com. She also has experience as a lecturer on art processes, and in projects by the Mākslai vajag telpu (Art Needs Space) foundation and the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. Since 2020, Auguste Petre has been programme director of the Riga Smallest Art Gallery and co-curator of the Riga Smallest Auction cycle.
Photo: Marta Mielava

Tīna Pētersone (1994) holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Prior to that, she graduated with a BA in Communication Science from the University of Latvia, as well as spending a semester at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany, studying Communication and Cultural Management. Last year, she took part in the What Could Should Curating Do? curators' summer school In Belgrade, Serbia. She won the first Riga Photography Biennial - NEXT 2021 and Art Academy of Latvia "Young Curator!" Award, and curated the traveling exhibition of the Jeune Création Europeenne (JCE) Young Artist Biennale in Cēsis, Latvia. Together with the artist Krišjānis Elviks, she formed the association temporary.lv, which in the summer of 2020 settled into an art laboratory on the shores of the Baltic Sea. She curated Linda Vilka's solo exhibition BREAK-me-DOWN-tomorrow (2020) in Plieņciems, Latvia, and worked on the group exhibitions Making Sense (2020) and It Got Brighter, Then Dimmer, Right Next to the Wound (2019) in London, UK.

Antra Priede (1985) is an art historian and curator. Has received a BA and MA from the Art History and Theory Department of the Art Academy of Latvia (AAL). Since her studies, AAL has also been her workplace - as prorector for study work, dean of the master's programme (since 2018 also the Curatorial Studies programme of the Art History and Theory Department). As the dean of the master's programme, she devotes a lot of time and energy to attracting international industry professionals to AAL to provide students in the master's programme with wide-ranging and international experience, introducing the contemporary qualities of the field and helping to build the foundations of a strong personal practice.

Antra has gained valuable professional experience working at the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art as a project manager and curator. She has created and managed the Latvian art scene section on the Baltic contemporary art online daily Echo Gone Wrong. Her research activities are related to reviewing the history of exile art, emphasizing key contemporary issues, including the role of the curator in the local and international art ecosystem, the role of women in the art environment and other sometimes uncomfortable questions.

Agnese Pundiņa (1992) is an art historian, project manager, producer and curator. She has a master's degree from the Department of Art History of the Art Academy of Latvia, and is mainly interested in the reflection of social issues in contemporary art. She has published articles on the art and culture portal Arterritory.com and the Estonian visual arts magazine KUNST.EE.

Astrīda Riņķe is the founder of Gallery Alma. She studied stage design at the Art Academy of Latvia. She curates the exhibition programme of Gallery Alma in Riga and at international art fairs – Artissima in Turin, Art 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

Anete Skuja (1991) is an art historian, photographer and freelance curator mostly working with photography. She is a graduate herself and has been the guest curator of the ISSP School's programme in contemporary photography. She obtained her Master’s degree from the Art History department of the Art Academy of Latvia, specializing in curatorial studies, researching the notion and use of the archive in the contemporary art of the Baltic region.