Inga Lāce
22.10. — 28.10.2023
→ Bucharest
Inga Lāce (b. 1986) is a curator and writer based in Riga. Her research encompasses modern and contemporary art in Soviet and Post-Soviet Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia, as well as its diaspora. She focuses on migration and transnational connections across regions, legacies of politics of friendship and international solidarity. Together with Alicia Knock she is co-curator of sister exhibitions Long-Distance Friendships within Contemporary Art Festival Survival Kit 14 and Kaunas Biennial (2023), as well as Ljubljana biennale of Graphic Arts (2023).
She was CMAP Central and Eastern Europe Fellow at MoMA (2020-2023) in New York and has been a curator at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (2012-2022). In 2019 Lāce was curator of the Latvian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale with the artist Daiga Grantina (co-curated with Valentinas Klimašauskas). She has realized various curatorial projects at the Malmo Konstmuseum, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, James Gallery at CUNY, NY, Villa Vassilieff, Paris, and was recently co-curator of New Visions Triennial for Photography and New Media at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo.
Lāce is also co-founder of Eastern Balkans Institute for Art and Architecture and co-artistic director of the Contemporary Art Triennale in Bulgaria (2025).