CURATORS

Roberta Atraste (LV) earned her bachelor’s degree in art history and theory at the Art Academy of Latvia and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in curatorial studies at the same institution. In 2024, she broadened her education through an Erasmus+ program, studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. A significant part of her educational experience was the Erasmus+ traineeship at the State of Concept Athens Gallery in Greece (2022), where she worked as a curatorial assistant. As a curator, Roberta has organized various exhibitions both in Latvia and abroad. Roberta compiled the visual arts journal ‘Radošā birokrātija’ (‘Mākslas Žurnāls’, 2024), which features contemporary visual and textual narratives about bureaucracy in the Latvian art scene. Together with philosopher Sofija Anna Kozlova, she co-edited the catalogue for the Survival Kit 15 festival (2024). She frequently tries to publish articles on art. Recently she has done so on platforms like ‘Wunder Kombināts’, ‘Punctum’, and ‘Blok Magazine’.

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

Laima Daberte (LV) is a curator and artist from Rīga. Her interest in the interaction of space and narrative, as well mechanisms of perception, motives and patterns of action developed while studying architecture at Riga Technical University, as well as in Florence and Lisbon. Her focus turned to memory while continuing her studies in the field of curation at the Art Academy of Latvia, where she had previously obtained a bachelor’s degree in sculpture. Daberte has participated in the creation of exhibitions at several cultural spaces in Latvia: Fluvius by Zanda Puče and Armands Andže (Sigulda New Palace, 2025), Terrarium by Marta Madara Grantiņa (Smilga, 2024), In the Silence of Light by Peter Jansen (Jūrmala Museum, 2024). She is also the author of text and design for the artist’s catalogue and is the laureate of the Riga Photography Biennial – NEXT 2023 and AAL Emerging Curator! award, with the exhibition Time Found at Pilot gallery.

Auguste Petre (LV) is an independent curator and co-founder of the gallery ASNI. She holds a master’s degree in Art History and Curatorial Studies from the Art Academy of Latvia, and is currently pursuing her PhD. Since 2021, Petre has been a lecturer at the Art Academy of Latvia. Petre’s main interests are new materiality and post-socialist identity in Baltic art. She has curated more than 20 contemporary art exhibitions with the participation of international artists and is the author of several exhibition concepts and texts. Recent major exhibitions include Helēna Heinrihsone’s Wanderers (LNRMM, 2024), Katrīna Neiburga's Sologamy (LNMM, 2024), and MAREUNROL’S solo exhibition Fieldwork: Invisible exercises (Riga Art Space, 2023). All of these projects have been nominated for the Purvītis Prize 2025. Since 2017, Auguste Petre has worked as an art journalist, regularly contributing to Latvian and international media publications. In 2023, Petre curated SEB Global Services’ contemporary art collection.

Antra Priede (LV) (1985) is an art historian and curator. Graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia (AAL) Art History and Theory Department, receiving a bachelor's and master's degree. Since her studies, AAL has also been her workplace – currently holding the position as vice-rector for Academic Affairs and in 2018 she initiated and still manages the specialization of Art History and Theory Department – Curatorial Studies.

Astrīda Riņķe (LV), combining the roles of gallerist and curator, 20 years ago established the gallery ALMA, one of the leading contemporary art galleries in Latvia. Born into a family of creatives, in the 1980s she graduated from the Department of Painting at the Art Academy of Latvia in the so-called “star” year together with Ieva Iltnere, Aija Zariņa, Jānis Mitrēvics and Sandra Krastiņa, who shaped the new painting of the independent Latvia. Riņķe's curatorial practice is based on emotional involvement – to be beside the artist, to inspire and be part of the creative process, setting new rules for every exhibition and fostering the artist's growth. Riņķe highlights the restrained and visually muted Northern-European art, underlining the uniqueness and laconicism of Latvian art and promoting it in such high-level art fairs as Art Brussels, NADA Miami, Artissima and ArtCologne and others.

Mariē Šēvolda (Marie Sjøvold, NO) is a visual artist and works with photography, video and photo books. With her camera she explores the outer limits of consciousness, human behavior, relationships, and rites of passage. A recurring question in her work is how we perceive reality. In a continuation of this, she existentially explores concepts such as home, heritage, and time. In her photographic work, she tells universal stories where she often uses experiences from her own life and her own family, but she always plays with the boundaries between what is reality and what is fiction. She has an intimate and playful approach to themes with an existential seriousness. Marie Sjøvold 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. 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.

Baiba Tetere (LV) is a researcher of visual culture and reader at the Riga Stradiņš University. She has been organising projects in photography, education and art since the late 1990s. Photography has been a dominant in her biography, opening opportunities to work in visual culture research, contemporary art, education as well as commercially. Baiba studied history of photography at the De Montfort University, England as well as the PhD programme at the University of Greifswald, Germany, where she studied early anthropological photography in Latvia in the late 19th century. Her current academic interests are related to the practice of private and institutional photography archives in the 20th century. She teaches history of photography, contemporary photography as well as courses related to photographic heritage.