Talk

MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Solvita Krese, director of and curator at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) in Riga. Krese has been curator and co-curator of many large-scale international exhibitions, including “Portable Landscapes,” an exhibition co-curated by Inga Lāce and Krese which traced and contextualized the emigration and exile stories of Latvian artists throughout the twentieth century. “Portable Landscapes” was exhibited at Villa Vassilieff, Paris; the Latvian National Art Museum, (2018); and the James Gallery at CUNY, New York (2019), where it was co-curated by Inga Lāce and Andra Silapētere.

Other curatorial ventures include “Unexpected Encounters” at Den Frie Art Center, Copenhagen, and the Latvian National Art Museum (2019) co-curated with Inga Lāce and Andra Silapētere; “Identity. Behind the curtain of uncertainty,” National Gallery of Ukraine, Kiev (2016); “re:visited,” Riga Art Space (2014); “Telling tales,” National Gallery of Art, Vilnius; Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn; Centre for Contemporary Art, CentrePasquArt, Biel (2014);  “Alternativa,” WYSPA, Gdansk (2013), among others. Krese was the commissioner of the Latvian Pavilion for the 56th and 58th Venice Biennales (2015 and 2019). In 2009, Krese initiated the annual contemporary art festival, Survival Kit, which she has been curating or co-curating ever since.

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, founding chair of MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.