PARTICIPANTS

Astrid Ardagh (NO) is an artist and filmmaker from northern Norway. She holds a BA in Moving Image from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and is currently completing the international master's programme DocNomads, hosted by Universidade Lusófona (Lisbon), LUCA School of Arts (Brussels), and KIMO (Vilnius). Drawing inspiration from Arctic phenomenology and culture, Ardagh creates immersive, sensory films that challenge human-centred ways of seeing. Working with a poetic visual language, she explores connections between community, nature, and belonging in an increasingly urbanised and individualized society. Her work has been shown at international film festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand and Jihlava, as well as at galleries and art institutions including Kristiansand Kunsthall, the Eye Film Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. She has also participated in major group exhibitions such as Barents Spektakel, Den Nordnorske Kunstutstilling -- Nordnorsken, and the Lofoten International Art Festival.

Kristīne Luīze Avotiņa (LV) was born in Riga. She graduated from the Riga French Lycée (1999), and from Janis Rozentāls Riga Art Secondary School with a diploma in photographic design (2003). She received bachelor's (2007) and master's (2010) degrees from the Department of Painting at the Art Academy of Latvia. She has been taking part in exhibitions since 1999. In 2003 and 2004, she held personal exhibitions presenting landscapes, portraits and figural compositions that she had photographed, having added Indian ink and aniline colouring. Since 2005, she has held over 15 personal exhibitions, the most ambitious of which, the multimedia exhibition River of Dreams, took place at the Riga Art Space (2021). She works as a book illustrator and designer, every year producing a calendar with reproductions of her works. Her photographs as well as her paintings are dominated by a romanticized depiction of the surrounding environment, people and flowers, demonstrating the possibility of especially harmonious, positive relationships.

Yevgenia Belorusets (UA) is an artist and author. She lives and works between Kyiv and Berlin. Her work operates at the intersection of literature, visual art, and activism, often drawing attention to more vulnerable parts of Ukrainian society -- queer families, Roma communities, miners, and people living in war zones. Her works have been presented at the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 56th and 59th Venice Biennale, among other venues. She has received multiple awards, including the International Literature Prize of HKW (2020), the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research (2022) and the Alice Salomon Poetics Prize (2025). Since 24 February 2022, she has been documenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Uldis Balga (LV) is a photographer focusing on humanity and the environment, particularly with the aesthetics of documentary photography. His works are dominated by silence, atmosphere and attention to the everyday nuances that reveal the rhythm and mood of small-town Latvia.

Ona Barbora Šlapšinskaite (LT) is an artist and educator based in Vilnius, Lithuania. She creates installations in which personal memories, family stories, and political contexts unfold, sometimes creating conditions for different communities to meet. Drawing on biographical and autobiographical material woven into fictional narratives, her work highlights the influence of history and ideological heritage on past, present and future identities.

Artūrs Bērziņš (LV) born in Riga, graduated from Janis Rozentāls Riga Art Secondary School (2009), receiving a master's degree from the Department of Visual Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia (2012). He works in the fields of painting, computer graphics, music and audio-visual art. The author of the novel Visuma vērpēji ("Weavers of the Universe") and the children's book Spoguļpuse. Patraka pasaka ("Mirrorside. Half-Crazy Fairy Tale"), he also holds performances. Active in art since the late 1990s, he makes illustrations for album covers. He has been taking part in exhibitions since 2001 and is a member of the Artists' Union of Latvia. He has held nine personal exhibitions. In 1998, he founded the gothic rock band Diadema, and has directed several of their videos, then in 2004 he founded the experimental electronica project Lenoras Sapņi/Koronar. He has directed several animated films. He considers painting to be his main field of creative work, dealing in his work with relationships between men and women and questions relating to inner human contradictions. The foundations of his works are photographs, stagings of actors and models directed by the artist. His mixed-media works employ a combination of photographs and various other materials, both with and without further digital processing.

Māra Brašmane (LV) is one of the most important Latvian photographers of the 20th century. She has built up an archive of black-and-white photography throughout her life, despite only earning recognition after holding the exhibition The City of My Youth in 2002 at the Artists' Union of Latvia. In the '60s and '70s, her photographs were a creative record of the processes, events and happenings connected to the so-called Kaza group. From 1973 to 1984, Māra Brašmane worked at the Rundāle Palace Museum, where she produced photographic documentation of the activities at the museum and the museum artefacts, as well as photographing her colleagues. From 1984 to 2004, she worked at the Union of Latvian Art Museums, focusing on the photographic documentation of the works and artefacts in the museum collections, as well as preparing images for publications.

Māra Brašmane's most significant exhibitions have been The Journey (1996, Riga Pharmacy Museum), The City of My Youth (2002, AUL Gallery), Museum Workers (2005, Latvian National Museum of Art), RIX -- CPH -- RIX. A Flight in Time and Space (2006, Museum of Copenhagen), Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe (2009, MUMOK, Vienna; 2020, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw), Time of Change (2014, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, LNMA), and We Don't Do This (2023, MO Museum, Vilnius). Māra Brašmane has been appointed Officer of the Cross of Recognition (2015), and her works are in the collections of the Latvian National Museum of Art, the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art, the Latvian Museum of Photography and the Rundāle Palace Museum.

Nanna Debois Buhl (DK) is a Danish visual artist who operates at the intersection of the aesthetic, scientific and speculative realms. Her work materializes as weavings, generative algorithms, photographs, installations, public commissions, and artist's books. She is currently an artistic postdoc fellow at The National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) and has a practice-based PhD from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Copenhagen University. She is represented in collections such as the MIT List Collection, USA; the Hasselblad Foundation and Malmö Museum of Art, Sweden; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; and the Arken Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark. Current and recent exhibitions include Almost Unreal, MUNCH Museet, Norway; Soft Robots, Copenhagen Contemporary; and Poetics of Encryption, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark.

Valdis Celms (LV) was born in Sigulda municipality. In 1970, he graduated from the Department of Industrial Art at the State Art Academy. He has been a member of the Artists' Union of Latvia since 1972 and the Latvian Designers' Society since 1994. He has been taking part in exhibitions since 1972. In 2013, a personal exhibition of his work was held at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design. He has been one of the leading theoreticians and practitioners of design and kinetic art since the mid-1970s in Latvia. He has designed posters and was responsible for the visual-aesthetic appearance of several Latvian Song Festivals, as well as kinetic art and environmental projects. He is the author of the sign that announces arrival in Riga at the city limits. He carried out theoretical studies about the culture of symbols in Latvia in the books Latvju raksts un zīmes ("Latvian Ornament and Symbols") and Baltu dievestības pamati ("Foundations of Baltic Divinity"). Since the late 1960s, he has been taking photographs and making photomontages that also involve colouring with aniline, felt-tip pen and pencil. For the artist, photography is a system of semiotic communication, which is based on the poetic laws of the selection and combination of relationships of similarity, difference and contrast between visual signs, perspectives and identity.

Priyageetha Dia (NL) works with time-based media and installation. Her practice braids themes of south-east Asian labour histories, speculation of the tropics, and ancestral memory meeting machine logics. Through archival and field research, she explores non-linearity and practices of refusal against dominant narratives. Her recent exhibitions include at the Aichi Triennale (2025); Munch Triennale (2025); 4^th Bangkok Art Biennale (2024); Manifesta 15, Barcelona (2024); 60th La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2024); Arts House, Melbourne (2024); Diriyah Biennale, Saudi (2024); Frieze Seoul (2023); Singapore Art Museum (2023); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala (2022); and La Trobe Art Institute, Australia (2022). She was an artist-in-residence at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore in 2022 and the SEA AiR---Studio Residencies at the Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands in 2023.

Lilija Dinere (LV) was born in Riga. She graduated from the Janis Rozentāls Riga Art Secondary School (1973), and the Department of Stage Design at the Art Academy of Latvia (1980). She has been taking part in exhibitions since 1979 and has been a member of the Artists' Union of Latvia since 1981. She has worked as a painter and graphic artist and has illustrated over 60 books. She has also worked in monumental painting and has a long-term collaboration with VAS Latvijas Pasts, designing postage stamps. She has held over 20 personal exhibitions in Latvia and abroad. In her works she uses combinations of different materials and techniques to reveal the codes and archetypes from the deeper cultural layers of different regions as well as their connection to the present. In the mid-1990s, she took up photography. She uses her own landscape photographs, complementing them with portraits painted in acrylic to produce a surreal, mystical impression and convey her own message about the possibility of the visible and invisible worlds existing side by side.

Ieva Epnere (LV) graduated from the Textile Department (2001) and the Visual Communication Department (2003) at the Art Academy of Latvia and completed postgraduate studies at HISK Ghent (2012). Ieva Epnere's artistic practice revolves around exploring themes of identity, memory and history. She works with a variety of mediums including video, photography, and textile and installation art, often incorporating personal and collective narratives to create a deep and introspective experience for the viewer. Epnere's distinctive stylistic approach involves a blend of documentary storytelling and visual poetry, and a keen eye for capturing the essence of her subjects within the context of broader societal and historical landscapes.

In 2019, she received the Purvītis Prize for her work Sea of Living Memories.

In 2019, Epnere was awarded a one-year German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Artists-in-Berlin programme scholarship to work in Berlin. During her residency in DAAD her book Riga Circus was published by an independent publishing house BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE (Berlin).

In 2025, she received a nomination for the film Laidi at the Lielais Kristaps Latvian National Film Awards in the category "Best Short Documentary".

Krišjānis Elviks (LV) is a scenographer and interdisciplinary artist from Latvia. He is a graduate of the Scenography Department (2019) and the interdisciplinary art programme MA POST (2023) at the Art Academy of Latvia. Working across scenography, installation, performance and text, his practice explores the relationship between body and space. At the core of his practice is the "thinking in space" approach, a method that merges spatial sensitivity with conceptual and socio-political inquiry. He has held numerous solo shows, and his works have been exhibited in such institutions as the Latvian National Museum of Art (2022, 2024) and the Contemporary Art Museum Zagreb (2024).

Saskia Fischer (DE) studied photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts (Essen) and sculpture and installation at the Estonian Academy of Arts (Tallinn). She completed her MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was most recently a Meisterschülerin on the Weissenhof Fellowship Programme at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, where she currently teaches at the Department of Fine Arts. She has been an artist-in-residence at Cité internationale des arts (Paris), Hangar (Barcelona), Fundaziun Nairs (Scuol), Rupert (Vilnius), and Nida Art Colony (Nida). Recent projects include Ohayō (Villa Merkel, Esslingen), A Place Between Night and Day (Tallinn Art Hall), Zero is the Moon (Nova Space and Bauhaus University, Weimar), Touched Untouched (Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart), and the solo exhibitions After Dark (Drifts Gallery, Vilnius) and LIGHTS (apiece, Vilnius). Saskia Fischer lives and works between Vilnius and Stuttgart.

Henna-Riikka Halonen (FI) works are often responses to a specific context or a site, aiming to highlight our need to structure experiences as fiction to gain an understanding of them. By creating speculative systems or worlds, her work explores our relationship to materials, objects, words and living and non-living beings.

Halonen has worked on and produced many collaborative and large-scale projects and commissions and has shown her work widely at international exhibitions and festivals, such as the Incheon Biennale of Women Artists, South-Korea; IFFR, Rotterdam; Hayward Gallery London; the Biennale of Sydney; Lilith Performance Studio, Malmo; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and, most recently, Gus Fisher Gallery, New Zealand; Das Weisse Haus, Vienna; and China Hangzhou Biennale of Art and Technology.

Halonen graduated with an MFA in fine art from Goldsmiths College, London in 2006. She completed a doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki in 2020. She lives and works in Helsinki.

Azeem Hamid (EE/PK) originally from Lahore and based in Tallinn, is a design researcher currently pursuing a PhD at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA). His work spans teaching, consulting and facilitating design workshops globally. During the Riga Photography Biennial Symposium, he will share his recent project Sensorial Design, which explores how to support intergenerational mental wellbeing through sensory play between children and their geographically distant grandparents.

Atis Ieviņš (LV) was born in Ārlava parish. He graduated from the Department of Decorative Design at Riga Secondary School of Applied Art (1965), and the Department of Textile Art at the Art Academy of Latvia (1970). Since 1972, he has been taking part in exhibitions of textile art, posters, applied art, and photo and book graphics. He documented the performances and actions of Andris Grinbergs, and designed interiors. From 1975 until the mid-2010s he worked as a photojournalist for many Latvian press publications. He is a member of the Artists' Union and the Journalists' Union of Latvia. In the mid-1970s, he was among the first in Latvia to make photo-screenprints from his own photographs, experimenting with aniline coloring and relationships with other, matt and glossy surfaces and textures. Often one image or print was reproduced in a different color scheme to reduce its specificity and create a distanced, abstract image. He has held over 20 personal exhibitions, including at the Latvian National Museum of Art (2006).

Anna Ihle (NO) explores norms and narratives that shape how people in Scandinavia organise their lives, particularly through work ideals, wellness routines and parenthood -- often in the form of sculpture and conversation. She holds an MA degree from Konstfack (Stockholm, Sweden, 2014) and attended Jan Van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2018--2019), as well as textile design studies at the National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad, India, 2010). Exhibitions include Tied Up at Fotogalleriet (Norway); To Break Up With Forms at Nitja (Norway); I Call It Art at the National Museum (Norway); Fruiting Bodies, Subterranean Minds at Art Lab Gnesta (Sweden); What We Share. A Model for Cohousing at the Nordic Countries Pavilion, at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Italy); and Precarious: On the Aesthetics and Ethics of New Labour at The Museum of Work (Sweden); and, in collaboration with Addoley Dzegede, The Real Show at CAC Brétigny (France).

Inka & Niclas (SE) for nearly two decades, have explored nature through the camera, not as documentation but as a way of examining how ways of seeing are formed. Working across photography, sculpture, video and installation, they investigate how visual conventions, technology and cultural expectations shape our perception of the natural world.

Inka (b. Finland, 1985) and Niclas (b. Sweden, 1984) Lindergård have worked together since 2007 and live in Stockholm, Sweden. They have had exhibitions at Haus am Kleistpark, Germany; Lidköping Konsthall, Sweden; Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, California, USA; Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA; Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Sternenpassage, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria; and Museo Fortuny, Venice, Italy, to name but a few.

Their works are represented in the permanent collections of Moderna Museet (Sweden), Gothenburg Museum of Art (Sweden), Fries Museum (the Netherlands), Arendt & Art (Luxembourg), the Wienerberger Collection (Austria) and Edit Maryon Foundation (Switzerland). They were awarded the EMOP Arendt Award 2021 and the Swedish Photo Book Prize 2012. They are represented by Dorothée Nilsson Gallery in Berlin and Bildhalle in Zurich and Amsterdam.

Rūta Kalmuka (LV) began studying photography in 1992 at the Centre of Creative Learning Annas 2 under Andrejs Grants. She has dedicated almost 20 years to photojournalism, working with printed media including Santa, Dienas žurnāli, NRA and Ir magazine. Currently she works with analogue photography and large format equipment, as well as being interested in historical photographic processes and the making of photobooks. She has taken part in several group exhibitions in Latvia and abroad. Her works have been included in publications such as Foto Kvartāls, Fotofilmic JRTL and World Press Photo. In 2025, she was nominated for the prestigious European Photography Platform Futures.

Dainis Kārkluvalks (LV) is a photographer known for his ability to capture the moment with documentary directness and emotional intensity. His photographs reflect the social environment, culture and life stories, often focusing on the themes of provincial life and historical memory.

Adam Mazur (PL) is a curator specialising in photography and the art of Central and Eastern Europe who, through curating Polish and international projects, connects private collectors/institutions with galleries and public institutions. From 2002 to 2013, he served as a curator at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, where he curated, among others, the group exhibitions New Documentalists, Red-Eye Effect: Polish Photography in the 21st Century, as well as solo exhibitions by artists including Konrad Pustoła, Martha Rosler, and Wojciech Wilczyk. He is an editor of anthologies and exhibition catalogues, and the author of numerous books, including Histories of Photography in Poland 1839--2009 (2010) and The Mutilated World: Histories of Photography in Central Europe 1838--2018 (2019). Between 2013 and 2022, he worked as an independent curator, organizing exhibitions by artists such as Rafał Milach at Futura Gallery in Prague, Aneta Grzeszykowska at the State Art Gallery in Sopot, Artur Żmijewski at the Wrocław Contemporary Museum, and Piotr Uklański at the National Museum in Kraków. Since 2022, he has been the director of the Hilary Majewski House in Łódź and curator of exhibitions organized by the institution in Poland and abroad. He has curated and co-curated major survey exhibitions such as Photobloc (ICC Kraków, 2019; MUO Olomouc, 2020; NGA Vilnius, 2021), Looking for Trouble: Contemporary Photography from Central-Eastern Europe at Image Gallery in Aarhus (2023), and Images Falling from the Sky: The Phenomenon of the Helsinki School of Photography at the State Art Gallery in Sopot (2024).

Robertas Narkus (LT) describes his practice as the "management of circumstance in an economy of coincidence". Employing performance, new media, language, humour and entrepreneurship, he brings together the ordinary and the absurd to explore notions of technology and human desires. He has exhibited, performed or had screenings of his works at the CAC Vilnius, XII Baltic Triennial, Kim? (Riga), de Appel arts centre, the Stedelijk museum, Whitechapel Gallery, Ballroom Marfa (Texas), David Dale Gallery (Glasgow), and other locations. Narkus is the founder of the Institute for 'Pataphysics in Vilnius and the artist daycare centre Autarkia. He holds an MFA from the Fine Arts Department at the Sandberg Institute. In 2022, Narkus represented Lithuania at the 59th Venice Biennale.

Kert Viiart-Õllek (EE) is a graphic designer and visual artist based in Tallinn, Estonia. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (MA degree in 2020 as part of the graphic design department programme "Non-Linear Narratives"). In his artistic practice, he analyses the sociopolitical and environmental challenges of the present day, exploring how materials and artefacts reflect on ecological shifts. His focus is on how these objects, as tools and symbols, shape archaeological methodologies while addressing the broader implications of resource depletion and environmental changes. Since 2014, he's been a visiting lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts, and since 2022 has been an associate professor at the Graphics Design Department at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Kristina Õllek & Kert Viiart-Õllek are life partners and have collaborated on various exhibition projects since 2009.

Kristina Õllek (EE) is a visual artist based in Tallinn, Estonia. She works with photography, video and installations, as well as microbial and chemical processes, with a focus on investigating aquatic ecosystems, geological matter, and human-altered environments. In her practice she uses a research-based approach, but within that she also incorporates her own fictitious and speculative perspectives. In particular, she focuses on marine habitats and the concept of new technologies, including the geopolitical and ecological conditions associated with them.

With her work, she raises questions around the relationship between natural and synthetic, and understandings of materiality by obtaining a new and reconsidered meaning. She is interested in stretching out the boundaries of what we can see and use as an image and space, especially in this age of rapidly developing and highly manipulative technology. Her works have been shown at numerous international group and solo exhibitions.

Līga Spunde (LV) (b. 1990) is a visual artist based in Riga, Latvia. She presents her works as multimedia installations, intertwining personal stories with deliberate fiction. The interpretations and use of recognisable characters serve as an extension of her personal experiences, tapping into universal truths. The work's content determines the conception's physical form leading the artist to use various media and materials in her installations.

She completed her postgraduate studies in the Department of Visual Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia in 2016 and has been nominated twice for the Purvītis Prize, in 2020 and 2022. Spunde has participated in numerous exhibitions and art projects in Latvia and internationally, including Field of Exercises (2025, TUR, Riga, LV), Publiek Park 2025 (Plantentuin Meise, BE), MMCA Changdong Residency (2024, Seoul, KR), and Measures, Survival Kit 15 (2024, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, LV), among others.

Rasa Smite (LV) is an artist and researcher based between Riga, Karlsruhe, and currently Zurich/Basel, working at the intersection of art, science, and immersive media technologies. She holds a PhD in media sociology and is Professor at Riga Technical University Liepaja Academy and Principal Investigator at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). She has also been a guest professor at HfG Karlsruhe (Art and Design Academy), Germany, and a lecturer alongside Raitis Smits on MIT's Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) programme, Boston.

Raitis Smits (LV) is an artist and professor at the Art Academy of Latvia. He holds a PhD, with his thesis, New Media Art: Preservation and Archiving (2015), published by RIXC. Raitis has been a Fulbright Researcher at CUNY Graduate Center, New York. His research and artistic practice focus on preservation and archiving of new media art as well as immersive technologies. Together with Rasa Smite, he co-founded the RIXC Center for New Media Culture and has co-curated over 25 art-science festivals. They are also editors of the Acoustic Space publication series, publishing more than 20 books.

In their artistic practice, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits work together to creating visionary and networked artworks -- from pioneering internet radio experiments in the 1990s, to artistic investigations in the electromagnetic spectrum and collaborations with radio astronomers, to more recent "techno-ecological" explorations with climate researchers. Their immersive experiences integrate scientific data, sonification, visualisation, AI, and XR technologies. Their projects have been nominated for the Purvītis Prize (2019, 2021), the International Public Arts Award -- Eurasian Region (2021), and the Baltic Awards (2025), as well as being awarded the Prix Ars Electronica (1998) and the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough (2021). Their work has been shown widely at venues including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Latvian National Museum of Art, the House of Electronic Arts Basel, the Ars Electronica Festival Linz, and many others across Europe, North America, and Asia.

Sabīne Šnē (LV) explores relationships between humans and the more-than-human, focusing on how organisms and elements sustain life on Earth and how resource extraction impacts them. Her practice spans video, 3D animation, sound, writing, sculpture and drawing. Šnē holds an MFA from the Art Academy of Latvia (2022) and received the ACADEMIA Prize for her graduation project. Most recently, Šnē has held solo exhibitions at RIXC Gallery in Riga (2025), Lot Projects in London (2023), and Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga (2022), as well as exhibiting at Groundwork Gallery in King's Lynn (2025), HUB/Art in Barcelona (2025), Braziers Park in Oxfordshire (2025), PILOT Gallery in Riga (2024), RIXC Art Science festival in Riga (2024), and as part of Vlatka Horvat's project for the Croatian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in Venice (2024). Recent screenings include Images Festival in Toronto (2026), Deep Focus in London (2026), Braga Science Film Festival in Braga (2025), Animator Festival in Poznań (2025), and RIO Cinema in London (2024).

Tom Lovelace (UK) is a London-based artist, working within the spaces between photography and performance. Lovelace's practice is shaped by the collaborative histories of photography, phenomenology, theatre and the languages and legacies of abstraction. Since 2017, Lovelace has been developing the Living Pictures; exploring sites of architecture, moments in art history and the photographic image through performance methodologies. Lovelace is currently completing doctoral research, with a focus on the Living Pictures, at the University of Westminster. As a lecturer he works at the Royal College of Art, London.

Recent exhibitions and performances include Willow, The Hepworth Wakefield (2025); London Lives, Somerset House (London, 2025); Known and Strange, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2023); Doing and Undoing Islands, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2023); Bathers, The National Gallery (London, 2022); Repetition Room, Atletika Gallery (Vilnius, 2022); Eclipse, Bodø Biennale, NŌUA (Norway, 2022); A Japanese Dream, Van Gogh House (London, 2022); and On Photographic Beings, the Latvian National Museum of Art (Riga, 2020).

Istvan Virag (HU/NO) is a visual artist and photographer based in Oslo, Norway. Working interdisciplinarily across the fields of art, technology and the social sciences, his practice addresses the social and environmental dimensions of technological and economic development, and their impact on society, as well as on the private and personal spheres of human life. He works with a range of media, including photography, film, 3D animation and installation.

Virag holds a BFA from the Academy of Fine Art (Oslo National Academy of the Arts/KHIO) and an MSc in economy from the University of Pecs (Hungary). He has also studied at the School of Visual Arts (New York). Virag's works have previously been presented at Kunstnernes Hus, Podium, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Greenlightdistrict 2021, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Coast Contemporary, Jugendstilsenteret og KUBE, Fotogalleri Vasli Souza and the MUNCH Triennale 2025, among others. He is also a founding member of the Oslo-based artist collective INFOPSIN.

Katrīna Vīnerte (LV) is a painter whose works are dominated by nuanced colour relationships, still-life motifs and a sense of space. Her style of painting is a fusion of the classical school and a contemporary visual approach, focusing on the investigation of light, rhythm and atmosphere.