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 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). Brūvere’s work is included in several collections, including Latvian National Museum of Art, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Centre and Swedbank art collections.

Irēna Bužinska (1955) has received an MA from the Art Academy of Latvia. Since 1977, she has been working at the Latvian National Museum of Art, currently as exhibition curator. She has published more than 300 articles on Latvian art history and contemporary art exhibitions. Since 1989, she has focused on the research of Latvian art history, especially on the legacy of Voldemārs Matvejs, and the activities of artists-photographers, which resulted in the exhibition Hybrid Overflights. The Artist as Photographer. Mid 19th century – 2010, LNMM, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall (2011) and an exhibition of 19th century art photo reproductions at the Art Museum Riga Bourse (2019). Curator of several photography exhibitions by Voldemārs Matvejs, Inta Ruka, Andrejs Grants, Egons Spuris, Aivis Šmulders, Valdis Celms, Atis Ieviņš. Currently, her focus is on the use of photomontage in the 1920s-30s press in Latvia, as well as amateur photo postcards. The book Vladimir Markov and Russian Primitivism: A Charter for the Avant-Garde (in collaboration with Z. S. Strother and Jeremy Howard) has been published by Ashgate (USA, 2015, 2nd edition 2019).

Evita Goze (1984) is an independent curator, writer, artist, and the Exhibition Project Manager at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre. Her practice is driven by her interest in intertwining photography with other media and constructing narratives that blur the boundaries between reality and fiction and makes the personal political. She has curated solo and group exhibitions at the ISSP Gallery, Belgrade Photomonth, PHmuseum’s online platform, and the Self Publish Riga photobook festival. Goze received a BA in photography from the University of Brighton, UK, and an MA in visual communication from the Art Academy of Latvia. She has worked on the juries of photography competitions, including Grand Prix Fotofestiwal Lodz, Art Fair Foto Tallinn, Belgrade Photo Month’s New Talents, Kassel Dummy Award, and Self Publish Riga photobook dummy competition. Her writing has appeared in the British Journal of Photography, Tjej Land, Kultūras Diena, IR, Arterritory and Foto Kvartāls.

Adam Mazur (1977) works as a freelance curator and editor-in-chief of BLOK magazine. Assistant professor at the University of Arts in Poznan. Published books Histories of Photography in Poland 1839-2009 (2010), New Phenomena in Polish Photography after 2000 (2012), Depth of Field. Es-says on Polish Photography After 1945 (2014), After the End of Photography (2018). Curated sev-eral group and solo shows in Poland and abroad. Among recent individual exhibitions are shows ofMartha Rosler (2014), Pawel Althamer (2015), Artur Zmijewski (2016), Aneta Grzeszykowska (2017).

Paulius Petraitis (1985) is an artist, theorist, and independent curator based in Vilnius. His practice orbits around image-making in broader social and cultural contexts. Much of his work explores the role of technology in meaning-making and examines ways in which photographic images function in online and offline environments. Petraitis organised the pioneering screen-based photography exhibitions Sraunus (2010-2013) and Blog Reblog (2013-2014) and co-curated the first art show on Snapchat This is It/Now (2015). More recently, he curated a site-specific group exhibition On Photographic Beings (2020) at the Latvian National Museum of Art that explored the fluid multi-dimensionalities of object-image relationship.

Auguste Petre (1993) is an independent curator and researcher of art processes. She has a master’s degree in art history and curatorial studies from the Art Academy of Latvia and is currently enrolled in a doctoral programme at the Latvian Academy of Culture. Petre’s interests are characterised by the relations between politics, history, and art, as well as the creative expressions of Latvian artists born in the 1990s. Petre has been an art journalist since 2017 working for both Latvian and foreign publications. This includes her role as Baltic Editor for the online platform Arterritory.com. Petre has been a visiting lecturer at the Latvian Academy of Culture and the Art Academy of Latvia since 2021. She has curated more than 10 exhibitions and has created several exhibition concepts and accompanying texts. Petre is the Programme Director for Riga's Smallest Art Gallery and a Co-Creator of Riga's Smallest Auction Cycle; she participates in the art initiatives of the VV Foundation as their Exhibition Curator and Communications Manager.

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, Jeloya; and Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, among others. In 2012 she received the Fritt Ord European Photo Exhibition Award. Sjovold’s work is included in the collections of Fritt Ord, The Preus Museum, The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.

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

Baiba Tetere (1978) is a visual culture researcher, a lecturer at Rīga Stradiņš University, and the Head of the Latvian Museum of Photography. As a Co-Founder of the ISSP association, she has organised photography education and art projects regularly since 2006. Her career intersects the history, education, and commercial fields of photography – she has worked at the Latvian Museum of Photography (2000 – 2002), the Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents (2008), and as Photo Editor at the international monthly magazine Cosmopolitan Latvia (2002 – 2007). Tetere studied the history of photography at De Montfort University (England) and obtained her doctorate from the University of Greifswald (Germany), where she studied early anthropological photography in Latvia in the late 19th century.

Agnese Zviedre (1992) is an art historian, project manager, producer and curator. She holds a master’s degree from the Department of Art History of the Art Academy of Latvia, and is mainly interested in the representation of social issues in contemporary art. Her articles have been published on the art and culture portal Arterritory.com and Estonian visual arts magazine KUNST.EE. Zviedre was the curator of the Riga Photography Biennial NEXT 2021 symposium “Re-visions”. She is currently completing her doctorate studies at the Art Academy of Latvia, researching the accessibility of contemporary art, and works at the Latvian National Museum of Art.