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Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė holds MA degrees in Fine Arts, Politics and Gender. She is a freelance researcher, writer and curator. Her research interests include art and politics, the theory of critical feminism, social reproduction theory, theory and history of social movements.
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Agnė Sadauskaitė Vilnius based culture writer at night and robot friend in a daytime. She graduated from Cultural History studies in 2014 and holds MA in Heritage Protection studies from Vilnius University. Most interested in architectural history, theory and regionalism.
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Aistė Marija Stankevičiūtė is originally from planet Earth, currently based in Vilnius to operate as an artist. She is appearing at the Vilnius Academy of Arts daily, also writing for artnews.lt.
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Aksel Haagensen is an Estonian-Australian artist. He is currently studying at the Estonian Academy of Arts. He is also the press representative of the world famous Hungarian war-photographer Adre G. Friedmann and part-time editor of the discontinued newspaper Jerusalem Toast.
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Alberta Vengrytė is an art critic.
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Alise Tifentale is an art & photography historian, writer, editor, curator, and a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. www.alisetifentale.net
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Alise Upitis holds an A.B., summa cum laude, from Smith College and a PhD from the MIT Department of Architecture. In 2009-10 she was Visiting Scholar in the Archive of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and is currently Assistant Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Her research concerns postwar treatments of abnormality and computational technologies in architecture, art and design, and the place of research and knowledge production in contemporary art.
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Aneta Rostkowska is a curator at Bunkier Sztuki Gallery for Contemporary Art.
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Anna Veilande Kustikova is independent curator, an expert at Video Art Archive of Latvia as well as lecturer at Estonian Academy of Arts, Critical analysis of animated film and contemporary moving image. She studies Art History and Theory at Latvian Academy of Arts.
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Anneli Porri is an art historian, curator and writer.
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Annie Godfrey Larmon is a writer, editor, and curator based in New York. She is a regular contributor to Artforum, and her writing has also appeared in Bookforum, Frieze, and MAY. The recipient of a 2016 Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for short-form writing, she is the editor of publications for the inaugural Okayama Art Summit and a former international reviews editor of Artforum.
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Antra Priede is an art historian and curator. She works in Art Academy of Latvia as a Vice-Dean. She has graduated from History and Theory of Visual Arts and Culture MA at Art Academy of Latvia.
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Audrius Pocius is a curator and educator at Contemporary art centre, Vilnius. He is a director of Vilnius Pataphysics Institute.
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Aušra Trakšelytė is an art historian, critic and curator. She holds a PhD in art theory from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She is interested in site-specific art and theory, exploring it in the formats of contemporary art exhibitions, public discussions and publications.
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Ayatgali Tuleubek is an artist and curator based in Oslo. He has participated in group exhibitions including the Moscow Biennial for Young Art (2012), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2012) and was in the curatorial team behind the Central Asian Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, 2013.
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Beth Rose Caird is a Melbourne-based artist and writer. She writes regularly for Australian and international art journals with an interest in cultural criticism. Her writing has been published regularly by Mega Mute, Un Projects Inc. and Dissect Journal.
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Borbála Soós is a London-based curator. She graduated from the MA Curating Contemporary Art course at the Royal College of Art, London in 2012, and holds an MA in Film Studies and an MA in Art History from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest since 2009. Since 2013 she has been the director and curator of Tenderpixel, an independent contemporary art gallery in central London. She is Visiting Lecturer at the MA Fine Art course at the Royal College of Art, London, and also works as an independent curator, often collaborating with artists with socially engaged practices. In April 2017 she undertook a curatorial residency at Rupert, Vilnius.
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Brigita Reinert is an art critic and curator who is currently working as the Head of Contemporary Art Collection at the Art Museum of Estonia. She has an educational background in philosophy, art history and theory; and she has acquired a master’s degree at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She has specialized experience in organising art and cultural events, curating and coordinating exhibitions, editing texts, and coordinating cultural communication.
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Christophe Leclercq is a researcher, curator, lecturer at École du Louvre.
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Claudia Dorfmüller has worked as artist, magazine editor and curator. She holds a degree from University of Arts Berlin and is based in Berlin.
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Constantinos Taliotis is a visual artist and writer. His research focuses on manifestations of evil in cinema, especially through architecture, automobiles and firearms. Most recently he co-represented The Republic of Cyprus in the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013 with oO, The Lithuania / Cyprus Pavilion.
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Danutė Gambickaitė is an art critic.
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David Ashley Kerr is an independent curator, researcher and educator. A trained artist, he researches and teaches at a range of institutions in the field of art history, photomedia and visual culture. Born and educated in Australia, he lives and works in Rīga, Latvia.
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Diāna Kaijaka is an art critic.
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Dovilė Tumpytė is an art critic. She is currently researching the experiential shift in 21st-century art for her doctoral thesis at Vilnius Academy of Art.
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Echo Gone Wrong – online magazine for culture and contemporary art in Baltics.
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Edvardas Šumila engages in a variety of fields and his research interests are relatively broad. He is currently involved in studies of music, philosophy and critical theory as well as interdisciplinary studies of sound and other media, especially visual arts and literature. He engages in various public activities and is an organizer of electronic music festival 'Ahead' as well as an artistic director of another contemporary music festival 'Druskomanija'.
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Eglė Juocevičiūtė is an art critic.
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Eglė Mikalajūnė is curator at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, teacher at Vilnius Academy of Arts and independent art critic.
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Emma Duester is an ESRC-funded PhD researcher in her second year of study in the Media and Communications Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. In her research, Emma explores the Baltic art worlds of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In particular, she is interested in the mobility of artists and the effects of this on the Baltic cities of Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. The main theoretical idea is about mobility and how it can reframe the current understanding of migration. Emma has been interviewing artists as well as other art workers over the past year and has carried out participant observation at Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius and has spent time with an Estonian artist in Vienna.
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Ernest Truely is an artist from America working in an Estonian context. Since 2008 Mr. Truely has coordinated international artist residency at Culture Factory Polymer in Tallinn Estonia. He is one of the founding members of Error, a collective that creates social installations from available resources in disused spaces. Mr. Truely is a lecturer at Baltic Film and Media school and offers alternative art educational lectures and workshops throughout Europe.
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Eva-Erle Lilleaed is an art writer.
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Fiona Flynn – a generalist, teacher, researcher, writer and editor based in London. As part of a residency project in Nida, Lithuania two years ago, she used Stellarium software to explore how geographical co-ordinates might be reflected in celestial co-ordinates to imagine new locations and passages. Creative projects in recent years have taken her through Europe and to South Africa where she has explored contemporary trade routes, made studies of common ground in hostile territories and devised mushroom cloud explosions in sites of memory.
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Geir Haraldseth is the director of Rogaland Kunstsenter and based in Stavanger, Norway. Haraldseth holds a BA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design and an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College. Previous positions include curator at the National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. Haraldseth has contributed to several journals and magazines including the Exhibitionist, Kunstkritikk, Acne Paper, and Landings Journal. He recently published «Great! I’ve written something stupid» featuring a selection of his curated projects and writings, published by Torpedo Press.
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Giedrė Legotaitė is an art critic.
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Gintarė Matulaitytė is an art critic. She was an editor of an art criticism magazine for the Baltics – Echo Gone Wrong until December 2015.
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Gregor Taul is a farmer and family man in the wonderful town of Viljandi where he leads his activity as a curator and author.
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Hapan Keihäs is an art critic with a nomad identity.
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Helen Merila is an art writer currently studying Art and Visual Culture (MA) at Estonian Academy of Arts.
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Ian Damerell is an artist and an art professor who lives and works in Oslo, Norway. He graduated from the Royal College of Art (Masters) in 1973 and The West Surrey College of Art and Design, Bachelor Honours, in 1971. He has been a professor in Fine Art at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Science since the start of the 1980s, a lecturer at Goldsmith’s College of Art and the Royal College of Art. He has written an art theory book ‘Unfolding the Cards’, published in 2013. Full CV and works can be found at http://www.iandamerell.berta.me.
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Ieva Lejasmeijere is graduate of Art history Department at the Art Academy of Latvia and acquired writing skills from the editors of "Rīgas Laiks" magazine. Represents essay type criticism style which stems from the tradition of new journalism. The task of each articles is to answer the question of what it actually is that one can see at the exhibition or anywhere else.
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Indrek Grigor is an art theorist graduated from semiotics in Tartu. Indrek is a gallery manager at Tartu Art House and lectures at Tartu Art College and Estonian Academy of Arts. He is part of the board of art criticism blog Artishok and cultural newspaper Müürileht as well as the editor in chief of the podcast Tartu möliseb. He is convinced modernist and structuralist.
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Indrek Grigor and Šelda Puķīte are the curators of the IV Artishok Biennale.
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Inesa Brašiškė co-runs a project space The Gardens in Vilnius, works as a curator at Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius and occasionally writes and translates texts on contemporary art issues. She has organised the lecture series on the issues of contemporary art theory and history with participation of David Joselit, Dieter Roelstraete, Alexander Alberro and others. The topic of her interest is a historical and social phenomenon of contemporary art and contemporaneity as such.
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Inga Lāce (1986) lives in Riga and is a curator at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art. She has been a curatorial fellow at de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (2015-2016) working on a research and event program Instituting Ecologies (2016). In Amsterdam she also co-curated the exhibition It Won't Be Long Now, Comrades! at Framer Framed (2017). Lāce has been curator of the 7th - 9th editions of the contemporary art festival SURVIVAL KIT (2015-17) and is currently working on a research project Portable Landscapes tracing and contextualizing Latvian artists' emigration and exile stories throughout 20th century (at Villa Vassilieff, Paris, and Latvian National Art Museum, 2018).
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Jacquelyn Davis is an American-Swedish writer, curator and art critic. Davis holds a MA from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Critical Writing & Curatorial Practice, a MFA in Creative Writing from the School of Critical Studies from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA in Politics & Cinema Studies from Oberlin College. She is founder of the curatorial node and small publishing press valeveil. Functional versus ineffective collaboration techniques are a concern of hers.
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Jana Kukaine is an art critic from Latvia. Her starting point is – if the artists can do whatever they want and call it art, I can do what I want and call it criticism. (A slightly inaccurate quote from Lucy Lippard).
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Jānis Taurens is father of four children. Reads books (for example, Pindar's odes, Pynchon's novels and The Pickwick Papers). Does not hunt or fish; does not play football. Writes about philosophy, contemporary art and architecture. Has worked in urban planning and translated the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Work on philosophy is - as work in architecture frequently is - actually more of a work on oneself. On one's own conception. On the way one sees things. (And what one demands of them.)” Studied architecture at the Riga Polytechnical Institute (now Riga Technical University) and philosophy at the University of Latvia, where he earned a PhD in philosophy in 2005. Has been an associate professor at the Latvian Academy of Art since 2006.
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Jogintė Bučinskaitė works as an art critic and communication curator in multiple projects of contemporary art, cinema and other fields of culture. She graduated in Journalism and received her MA in Culture Management and Cultural Policy. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Representation of Contemporary Art at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. Jogintė has also worked for the Lithuanian National Television, edited publications and she actively publishes various texts in Lithuanian and international cultural media platforms.
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Julija Fomina is an art critic and curator, who gained her PhD from the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute in 2015 on the development of curating in Lithuania. She works at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, lectures at institutions of higher education on the theory and history of curating, and writes for local and foreign art periodicals.
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Julija Navarskaitė is a student of Art History, Theory and Criticism at Vilnius Academy of Arts.
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Julijonas Urbonas (Vilnius/London) is a designer, artist, writer, engineer and PhD student in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art. Since childhood, he has been working within the field of amusement park development. Having worked in such field – as an architect, ride designer, head of fairground – he became fascinated by what he’s calling ‘gravitational aesthetics’. Since then the topic has been at the core of his creative practice, from artistic work to scholarly articles. His work has been exhibited internationally and received many awards, including the Award of Distinction in Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2010. One of his projects can be found in the permanent collection of the Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM).
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Jurgis Viningas is currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy at Duquesne University. His research interests are centered around the intersections between aesthetics, ontology and epistemology. He is currently working on a dissertation project aimed at exploring the theory of the „logic of sensation" in Gilles Deleuze's work within the context of the neo-Kantian tradition.
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Jurij Dobriakov is an independent researcher of contemporary culture and art phenomena, critic, teacher and translator. He contributes texts to various Lithuanian and international cultural publications and catalogues of art projects, and takes part in publishing initiatives, conferences and seminars. He teaches photography theory and culturology of everyday life. Among his interests are psychoanalysis, media theory, urbanism and psychogeography, nostalgia, memory and the phenomenon of cultural generations.
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Justė Jonutytė is a Vilnius-based contemporary art and photography curator. She holds an M.A. degree in Art History from the University of St Andrews. Formerly a part of curatorial teams at Tate Modern (London), Jonas Mekas Foundation (New York) and oO (Lithuanian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale), she currently works as a curator at Rupert (Vilnius).
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Justė Kostikovaitė studies curating contemporary art at Royal College of Art, London. In 2011 she organised artist residency project CAN and the workshop Spheres of Power.Tension&Excange in Berlin. In 2012 together with Žilvinas Landsbergas she organised the artist residency project in Vilnius MaloniojiAIR.
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Justin Tyler Tate was born in Canada, grew up in the United States and now lives in Estonia. Receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University his work combines elements of sculpture, installation, media and performance. Tate’s work is concerned with ideas of space, function and interactivity; he uses traditional methods of construction/fabrication in unconventional ways, altering the purpose of a space and thereby, changing how viewers experience it.
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Justina Augustytė studied art history, theory and criticism at Vilnius Academy of Arts. Fields of interest include: art and culture of the 1st half of the 20th century, contemporary art, gender studies. She worked as a lecturer at Vilnius University Centre of Gender Studies. Currently works in Lithuanian Art Museum and writes articles on contemporary art.
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Kaia Otstak is an Estonian artist, a learner of philosophy, and a freelance art- and dance critic. She holds a BA in philosophy from Estonian Institute of Humanities and is currently Master student of philosophy at the same institution.
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Kārlis Vērpe is an art writer.
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Karolina Rybačiauskaitė is a researcher in art and philosophy, and a philosophy PhD student at Vilnius University. She studies the relationship between uncertainty and indeterminacy in contemporary philosophy of science and in art. She is also interested in alternative methods of writing art history in post-socialist European countries.
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Karolina Sadlauskaitė is an Communication Curator at the Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts
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Kaspars Groševs is an artist and curator based in Riga.
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Kati Ilves (1984, Estonia) works as a curator at the Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, where she is in charge of the contemporary art gallery. In 2017, she curated the Estonian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale – the exhibition If Only You Could See What I've Seen with Your Eyes displayed works by Katja Novitskova and was accompanied by the book of the same title published by Sternberg Press. Recently, Ilves has curated a group show Ascending from the Liquid Horizon at the le lieu unique art centre in Nantes, France and The Pure and the Damned at the Kumu Art Museum, that brought together the multifaceted practices of fashion designer Rick Owens and rapper Tommy Cash. Ilves holds a BA and MA in Art History from the Estonian Academy of Arts, and has studied literature and film in Paris 8 University. She was a participant of the Curatorial Programme at de Appel in Amsterdam in 2016–2017.
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Kaunas Biennial is organized since 1997. The 11th Kaunas Biennial seeks to oppose monopolistically populist practice of removing-erecting and conservative traditionalism, prevalent in the memory discourse of public art in Lithuania, and to stimulate and legitimise radically new, contemporary, conceptual, relevant ideas and strategies for monument-making, inviting international and local artists to – look back at the removed – rethink the existing – imagine the future monuments.
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Keiu Krikmann is an artwriter, curator, translator.
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Kęstutis Šapoka is an art critic, artist and curator. Lives and works in Vilnius.
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Kotryna Markevičiūtė is an art historian and cultural sociologist.
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Laine Kristberga is an art historian and academic. She graduated from the University of Latvia with a MPhil Degree in English Literature and Culture and from Birkbeck, University of London with a MA Degree in the History of Film and Visual Media. Currently she is reading lectures and writing her doctoral dissertation on mediated self-portrait forms in contemporary art at the Art Academy of Latvia. Laine is an author of numerous publications in Latvia and abroad.
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Laura Brokāne is an art writer.
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Laura Prikule is an art critic.
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Lauren Monsein Rhodes is Associate Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago, IL USA. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in the Cultural and Social Anthropology Program at University of Latvia and a Visiting Lecturer at RISEBA Faculty of Architecture and Design. She holds a PhD and MA in Anthropology from University of Washington (Seattle, WA USA), a MSEd in Museum Education from Bank Street College of Education (New York, NY USA), and a BA in Anthropology from Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH USA).
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Līga Marcinkeviča is an artist and art critic from Latvia.
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Lina Rukevičiūtė is an artist, facilitator, researcher and curator living and working in Vilnius, Lithuania. She has graduated from Central Saint Martin's College of Art&Design, London, and Vilnius University, Vilnius, and is currently involved in local and international contemporary art and educational art projects, as well as organisations, such as Project Space „Sodų 4“ of Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists' Association, Institutio media.
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Linda Vebere is an art critic.
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Linda Veinberga is an art project manager and culture journalist living in Riga. She has studied history and theory of visual arts and culture at the Art Academy of Latvia and documentary filmmaking at the International Film School Wales (University of Wales) and Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). She has worked as an editor, culture journalist and video reporter for the Latvian Television, Artyčok TV and Arterritory.com and holds a position in Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art.
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Lolita Jablonskienė is a contemporary art critic and curator based in Vilnius. Since 2000 she has headed the Contemporary Art Information Centre (CAIC) – a spin-off of the Soros Foundation – and joined the Lithuanian Art Museum to work for the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (opened in 2009) in Vilnius. In 2002 she was appointed Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Art. Jablonskienė was Commissioner of the Lithuanian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and 2005. She has curated contemporary art exhibitions in her home country and abroad, written art criticism for the Lithuanian and foreign press, and also lectures at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts as Associate Professor.
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Maija Rudovska is an independent curator and researcher based in Riga, Latvia. She has completed Curatorlab postgraduate studies at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and has obtained an MA in art history from the Art Academy of Latvia. Rudovska also runs a curatorial network Blind Carbon Copy (with Juste Kostikovaite).
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Margaret Tali is a cultural theorist and art historian. She has defended a doctoral degree at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis in University of Amsterdam. She is the author of "Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums" (2018) and editor of "Archives and Disobedience. Changing Tactics of Visual Culture in Eastern Europe" (2016, with Tanel Rander). Currently she is working on a edited anthology that brings together inspiring practices of art and activism in museum collections. Her research interest involve art and social justice, curation and museology. Originally from Estonia, she now calls Rotterdam her home. www.margarettali.net
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Mari Kartau also known as Siram (b 1968) is Estonian art critic, artist and independent curator. Graduated from Estonian Academiy of Art 1996 (MA), Räpina School of Horticulture (2013, environmental protection), currently studying in Luua Forestry School. She is currently working at the Estonian Public Broadcasting cultural portal as an art editor.
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Maria Arusoo is an artist-curator currently working as the Director of the Center for Contemporary Arts Estonia and the Commissioner of the Estonian Pavilion at Venice Biennial.
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Marie Vellevoog holds BA in art history from Tartu University and is currently pursuing MA from Estonian Academy of Arts in the same subject. In her research she is concentrating on installation art from the 1990s.
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Marija Griniuk is a Lithuanian artist and a PhD student at the University of Lapland, Finland. In 2018 she was visiting lecturer at Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her research concerns the new channels of performance documentation, derived from, usually invisible biometric data, such as brain activity.
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Markus Toompere is a culinary critic.
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Martin Rünk is an art scholar and critic. In 2010, he defended his master's thesis on "Self-reflective situations in dialogical aesthetics with the example of Polümeer factory workers' reunion" at the Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts. He was also a board member of the Polymer Culture Factory.
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Matas Šiupšinskas is an architect . He researches the history of town planning, mass housing, housing typologies, urban morphology and Soviet architecture. He occasionally writes for popular and scientific magazines (Volume, Monu, Archifroma, Journal of Architecture and Urbanism etc.).
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Maya Mikelsone is a Latvian curator based in Paris. She has studied Philosophy of Art at University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne followed by curatorial training program at École du Magasin.
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Maya Tounta is Curator at Rupert Centre for Art and Education. She has a Master of Arts in History of Art and Philosophy.
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Merilin Talumaa is an independent curator and art producer from Tallinn. She is lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts department of Art History and Visual Culture.
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Merle Luhaäär holds Bachelor degree from University of Tartu in semiotics and linguistics and BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art from Kingston University London, MA from Institute of Art History at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She is currently studying at Royal College of Art (MA Print) in London.
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Mētra Saberova acquired her BA in Painting from the Art Academy of Latvia and currently is studying for her MA degree in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London. She has a great love for philosophy and gender theories in particular.
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Mindaugas Gapševičius is an artist, facilitator, and curator living and working between Berlin, London and Vilnius. He is one of the initiators of the project space POT in Kassel and an active participant in various conferences, projects and workshops related to networks and digital culture.
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Monika Kalinauskaitė is an independent writer, critic and occasional badminton player from Vilnius, Lithuania. Her writing focuses mainly on contemporary visual art, architectural theory and critical essays. She is currently studying Art History and Theory in Vilnius Academy of Art.
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Monika Lipšic is a curator, art writer.
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Naomi Hennig lives in Berlin, where she works as curator, project coordinator and visual artist. She has been involved in alternative education and artist-run initiatives and collaborated in a number of curatorial projects and events, such as the exhibition project 'Spaceship Yugoslavia' at nGbK Berlin (2010). She is currently running the exhibitions programme at Galerie im Turm in Berlin.
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Neringa Bumblienė is a curator, researcher and writer. She has a Master Degree in Curatorial Studies and is an alumnus of the Ecole du Magasin, France. Since 2014 she works as a curator and a project coordinator at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.
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Neringa Černiauskaitė is an art critic, curator and editor in chief of Lithuanian contemporary art daily Artnews.lt. She is graduate from Bard's Centre for Curatorial Studies, NY.
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Neringa Krikščiūnaitė is an art critic.
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Nicholas Matranga is an artist living in San Diego, California.
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Oliver Laas is an Estonian cultural theorist and an aspiring philosopher. He holds a BA in fine art from the Estonian Academy of Arts, an MA in cultural theory from the Estonian Institute of Humanities, and is currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy at the same institution.
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Ona Juciūtė is an artist and curator.
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Paul Josephson, Tatiana Kasperski, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, Andrei Stsiapanau
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Paulius Andriuškevičius is an art critic.
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Paulius Petraitis is a theorist, artist and curator from Vilnius. His main interests are contemporary photography, visual culture, publishing, and technology. He directed Vilnius self-publishing festival 'Lentyna' (2012) and co-curated the first exhibition on Snapchat 'This is It/Now' (2015). Petraitis is the editor of 'Too Good to be Photographed' (Lugemik, 2017) and author of 'Smoke Screen' (Lodret Vandret, 2015).
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Povilas Dumbliauskas is a philosophy student from Alytus. An enemy to bourgeois intellectualism and cultural idolatry. His interests extend from German idealism, materialist dialectics and proletarian politics to darwinian biology and experimental music. Currently he works on the problem of subjectivity in German idealism and aleatory materialism in music.
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Povilas Gumbis is an art historian interested in Eastern European and Baltic art of the 20th century, their post-soviet developments, resulting historiographies, and the contemporary scene. Presently he works at Rupert.
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Raivo Kelomees PhD (art history), artist, critic and new media researcher. Studied psychology, art history, and design in Tartu University and the Academy of Arts in Tallinn. Has published in main cultural and art magazines and newspapers of Estonia since 1985. Book author, “Surrealism” (Kunst Publishers, 1993) and an article collections “Screen as a Membrane” (Tartu Art College proceedings, 2007), "Social Games in Art Space" (Estonian Academy of Arts, 2013). Doctoral thesis „Postmateriality in Art. Indeterministic Art Practices and Non-Material Art“ (Dissertationes Academiae Artium Estoniae 3, 2009). Participated in festivals and exhibitions: French-Baltic Video Art Festivals (Grand Prix in 1994); WRO 95, Wroclaw; Second International Video and Electronic Art Manifestation in Montreal 1995; 20th Tokyo Video Festival, 1998 (Silver Award); MuuMediaFestival in Helsinki (1998); Ars Electronica Mediathek, Linz (1999); 4th International Festival of New Film, Split (1999); ISEA 2000 (Paris); ISEA 2002 (Nagoya); FILE 2005 (Sao Paolo); Media Forum at the Moscow International Film Festival, 2006 (Moscow); Fluxus East. Fluxus Networks in Central Eastern Europe, Kumu Art Museum, 2008 (Tallinn) and many others.
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Rebeka Põldsam has studied contemporary art theory at Goldsmiths, London. She works as curator and project manager at Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia. She has been a co-curator of the exhibition Untold Stories (2011) and occasionally writes art criticism. Her research interests lie in queer theory, Eastern European contemporary art and contemporary ethics. Her current biggest influences are Renate Lorenz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Emmanuel Lévinas.
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Redas Diržys lives and works in Alytus (Lithuania) and is known for his social interventions, performances and socially engaged practices (teaching, lecturing, writing, and exhibiting). He can be considered a member of the Left discourse. In his social and artistic practices (which usually are inseparable) he criticizes the existing social rituals, the rules of art market, he deconstructs the power mechanisms and capitalist „power centers“. However, this critique has a subversive value – with a degree of irony and sarcasm, the artist often borrows the means of expression and organization from his objects of critique thus creating an artistic intervention or social action that provokes reaction, tension and dialogue. Since 1993 he is running unofficial initiatives of various locally based international art events which eventually got a shape of Alytus Biennial. Currently he elaborates art strike technologies to be applied directly onto the local structures of the „serious culture“and is associated with transnational structure of DAta Miners & Travailleurs Psychique - DAMTP. Since 1995 he is a head of Alytus Art School. Up to 2009 he successfully developed his artistic career internationally. In 2009 he officially refused to be recognised as an artist and associates himself with psychic workers.
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Rihards Bražinskis is an art critic.
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Romuald Demidenko is a curator, cultural producer and writer. He completed the Curatorial Studies programme at KASK School of Arts in Ghent and obtained his MA in Art History at the University of Wrocław.
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Santa Hirša is an everyday-art critic. She holds MA in Art History and is fascinated by marginalized forms of culture.
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Santa Remere specializes in all kinds of mixed media and visual communication - from children's books, to movies, installations and operas. She has studied culture, cinema and new media in several universities in Riga, Paris and Tokyo, has a MA degree in engineering, but mainly uses written word as her means of self-expression. As a research student at the lab of Japanese visual anthropologist Chihiro Minato she has set her focus on the subject of collective memory and perception. Currently, translates theater plays and regularly writes critics and analytical articles for the internet magazine satori.lv
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Saulius Leonavičius lives and works in Dublin. He has graduated from Photography and Media Arts at Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts (MA). As an artist he is interested in plasticity of definitions and rules in art field as well borders and edges of postmodern culture in general. He performs interventions, appropriations and rituals with an aim to compromise art as institution for its own sake.
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Sean Burns is an artist, editor and writer. He lives in London, UK.
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Šelda Puķīte is Latvian art historian, critic and curator based in Riga. She has graduated from History and Theory of Visual Arts and Culture MA at Art Academy of Latvia and is writing her PhD about pop art discourse in Latvian art. She holds a position at Latvian National Museum of Art as Head of the Arsenāls exhibition hall Creative Studio.
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Šelda Puķīte and Indrek Grigor are the art writers.
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Šelda Puķīte, Valts Miķelsons, Indrek Grigor are the art writers.
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Simon Barker is a Tallinn based philosopher, writer, poet, visual text thingy and occasional breakdancing performance artist. He has graduated from Classical Studies at University of London, continued in Philosophy at Kings College and gained Ph.D. at University of London in 2008. He lectures on Epistemology and Hellenictic Philosophy in Tallinn University since 2012. He writes on culture and art at simonbarker.is.
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Site Default is an art researcher and freelance journalist interested in contemporary art and creative industries. For the past six years she was living in Scotland (UK) obtaining her MSc degree in Modern Art from the University of Edinburgh. She is currently working on her own project focused on the issues of cultural interactivity.
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Skaidra Trilupaitytė is art and culture critic. She holds a PhD in Humanities, is a researcher at Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. She writes on topics of urban-cultural regeneration, international intellectual exchange, issues of post-soviet period Lithuanian culture institutions for Lithuanian and foreign academic publications.
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Skaistė Marčienė is a founder of Si: said gallery, curator, art critic.
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Sophie Lapalu is an art writer.
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Stella Pelše is an art historian working at the Institute of Art History in Riga since 1993. She received PhD in art history from the Latvian Academy of Art for the study “History of Latvian Art Theory: Definitions of Art in the Context of the Prevailing Ideas of the Time (1900–1940)” (2004, published in 2007). Research interests include art theory, art history, art criticism, aesthetics, contemporary art. Since the late 1990s she writes art criticism and has received several awards for best exhibition reviews, contribution to the history and theory of art and the publication of her PhD work.
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Steve Yates – museum curator, Fulbright Scholar to USSR and Eastern Europe (1991) and Russia (1995, 2007), photographic artist, writer and lecturer. Founding curator of photography at the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe (1980-2007) assembling collection of up to ten thousand of works (Google: idea photographic).
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Taavi Hallimäe is a critic and a visiting lecturer of cultural theory at the Estonian Academy of Arts. He is also the Co-Head of the MA program in Design & Crafts. His wide and interdisciplinary range of interests include literary theory and contemporary critical theory, in recent years his focus has shifted to design theory as well as material and visual culture. He has done comparative research on the literary works of Nikolai Gogol and Jüri Ehlvest, applying to the study the philosophy of language and political theory of Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben.
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Tanel Rander is an Estonian artist, writer, researcher mainly interested in applying decolonial theories in East European context.
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Tautvydas Bajarkevičius is a curator, writer and sound artist.
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Tetyana Kasima is a PhD student and junior research fellow in comparative literature at the University of Tartu.
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The Deep Splash is a website documenting the diverging ideas and motivations of Lithuanian émigrés working in the Arts.
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Tomas Čiučelis is a philosopher, translator, and interdisciplinary researcher. Finished Media Art studies at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, currently a PhD candidate in Continental Philosophy at the University of Dundee. Books translated and published in Lithuania: Lev Manovich, “Language of New Media”, and Noam Chomsky, “Hegemony or Survival.” Research fields: mediation, philosophy of technology, alterity and language. Actively following the developments in speculative philosophy.
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Tomas Čiučelis, Gintarė Matulaitytė Gintarė Matulaitytė is an art critic. She was an editor of an art criticism magazine Echo Gone Wrong representing Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia until December 2015. Tomas Čiučelis is a philosopher, translator, and interdisciplinary researcher. Finished Media Art studies at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, currently a PhD candidate in Continental Philosophy at the University of Dundee.
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Tomas Marcinkevičius is a student, a layman and a latent hater of all art. He got his MA in Social and Political Critique while dreaming of a non-institutionalised academia. He maintains it is impossible to proceed with the social life without PhDs becoming more like punks and punks becoming more like PhDs.
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Tomas Pabedinskas is art theoretician and critic, the member of Lithuanian Photographers Association since 2007, granted with official status of the artist in 2008. He has given lectures in various institutions of higher education in Lithuania and other European countries. Works as a lecturer in the Art Faculty of Vytautas Magnus University and as an associate proffesor in Justinas Vienožinskis Art Faculty of Kaunas College. Works as a freelance writer and has published more than 100 articles on contemporary art and photography in various publications since 2001.
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Toms Ķencis is a philosopher.
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Ulrike Gerhardt lives and works as a curator in Berlin. She holds an MA in cultural studies and runs the project space "Note On" since 2011. Currently she is working on her dissertation in the field of visual studies, researching on contemporary artists from the Baltic countries. Her main interests lie in experimental exhibition making, institutional critique and contemporary art from a post-socialist context.
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Vaida Stepanovaitė is an independent curator, art manager and lecturer.
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Valentinas Klimašauskas is a curator and a writer who curates texts and writes shows. While being interested in speculative economies of language, he is into linking concepts & readers into language based performative systems.
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Valts Mikelsons is a Latvian artocholic. Having acquired an interest in the field outside of academic or professional context, he has visited at least 350 exhibitions a year since 2009. He now works at the Mūkusala Art Salon, Riga, where he also publishes his Voltmeter blog. He is committed to devising engaging ways to think and write about art.
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Valts Miķelsons and Indrek Grigor Indrek Grigor is an art theorist graduated from semiotics in Tartu. Valts Miķelsons works at the Mūkusala Art Salon, Riga, where he also publishes his Voltmeter blog.
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Varvara Guljajeva and Lina Rukevičiūtė Lina Rukevičiūtė is an artist, facilitator, researcher and curator living and working in Vilnius, Lithuania. She has graduated from Central Saint Martin's College of Art&Design, London, and Vilnius University, Vilnius, and is currently involved in local and international contemporary art and educational art projects, as well as organisations, such as Project Space „Sodų 4“ of Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists' Association, Institutio media. Varvara is an artist and researcher. Member of an artist duo Varvara & Mar. She gained bachelor degree in IT from Estonian IT College, master degree in digital media from ISNM in Germany and currently is a PhD candidate at the Estonian Art Academy in the department of Art and Design.
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Veronika Valk studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EE) and Rhode Island School of Design (US), she is currently a PhD candidate at RMIT University School of Architecture in Melbourne (AU). She lives in Tallinn (EE) and works as an architect in her practice Zizi&Yoyo. She has constructed both public and private buildings, designed interiors and landscapes, won some 30 prizes at various competitions as well as published a number of critical essays on architecture and urbanism. Veronika Valk has recently received the national Young Architect Award 2012.
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Victoria Ivanova is a curator and writer living in London. Having previously worked in the human rights field, in 2010, she co-founded a multidisciplinary cultural platform in Donetsk, Ukraine, which critically explored the intersection between activism, education and artistic research. Ivanova's recent publications include ‘Art’s Values: A Détente, a Grand Plié' in Parse 2: The Value of Contemporary Art (2015), ‘Novelty Intermediation and the Future of Accelerationist Politics’ in Reinventing Horizons (2016), ‘Fractured Mediations’ in Der Zeitkomplex. Postcontemporary (2016), and ‘Contemporary Art and Collateral Financialisation’ in Finance and Society (II(i), 2016).
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Viktoria Draganova is a curator and writer living in Frankfurt/Main and Sofia. She is the founder and director of Swimming Pool Projects, Sofia (www.swimmingpoolprojects.org).
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Viktorija Damerell is an artist and curator.
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Viltė Bražiūnaitė was born in 1991 in Vilnius, Lithuania and has been studying at Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts from 2010.
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Vivian Sky Rehberg is an art historian and critic and Course Director of the Master of Fine Art at the Piet Zwart Institute. She obtained her PhD in art history in 2000 from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.). Based in Paris since the late 1990s, Rehberg worked as a curator, writer, translator and educator in France before moving to Rotterdam in February 2012. Rehberg is a contributing editor of frieze magazine and publishes widely on contemporary art and artists.
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Vytautas Michelkevičius (LT, Vilnius/Nida) is a theorist, activist, and curator, working with art and media projects and interested in socializing through art, interdisciplinarity between art and research, experimental teaching, and participatory curatorial practices. He holds PhD in Communication & Media studies, lectures in Vilnius Academy of Arts and works as artistic director of Nida Art Colony since 2010.
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Zanda Jankovska is an art historian. She holds BA and MA in History and Theory of Visual Arts and Culture from the Art Academy of Latvia. Currently, she is researching on “The Use of Science at the Visual Art as a Material and Media (1990 – 2010)” as a PhD student at the same institution.
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Zane Onckule has studied Art History at The Art Academy of Latvia and Communication Science at University of Latvia, and holds a Bachelor’s degree from Banking Institution of Higher Education in Latvia. From 2010 to 2017 she was a curator and Programme Director at kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga where she has organised, curated and co-curated exhibitions, public programme as well as edited publications and other corresponding materials in collaboration with wide range of artists, curators and theoreticians. She was a co-commissioner of Latvian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). Selected curatorial projects: The Shakiest of Things by Rodrigo Hernandez (kim?, Riga, 2017); Sea of Living Memories by Ieva Epnere (Art in General, New York, 2016); Le Fragole del Baltico, group exhibition (together with curator Simone Menegoi), CareOf, Milan (2015); Sink Down Montain, Raise Up Walley! by Ulla von Brandenburg (kim?, Riga, 2015); Vortex, group exhibition at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2014); Little Vera by Sanya Kantarovsky and Ella Kruglyanskaya (kim?, Riga, 2014). She has enrolled in the Class of 2019 at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard).
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