Solvita Krese

Solvita Krese lives in Riga and is a curator and director of Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) since 2000. She has been curator and co-curator of number of large scale international exhibitions, most recent ones are research and exhibition project Portable Landscapes (co-curated with Inga Lāce and Solvita Krese) tracing and contextualizing Latvian artists’ emigration and exile stories troughthout 20^th century which resulted in exhibitions at Villa Vassilieff, Paris , Latvian National Art Museum, (2018), and James Gallery at CUNY (2019) (co-curated with Inga Lāce and Andra Silapetere); “Unexpected Encounters” at Den Frie Art Center, Copenhagen and Latvian National Art museum (2019, co-curated with Inga Lāce and Andra Silapetere); ”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, Lithuania; Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn; Centre for Contemporary Art, CentrePasquArt , Biel (2014);  “Alternativa”, WYSPA, Gdansk (2013) etc. She was commissioner of Latvian Pavilion in 56^th and 58th Venice biennale (2015 and 2019). In 2009 she initiated the annual Contemporary Art Festival “Survival kit” which she has been curating and co-curating since than.