Andra Silapētere
06.—10.10.2025
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Andra Silapētere is a curator and researcher at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) in Riga. Her work engages with themes of exile, migration, identity and belonging. Using an art-historical approach, she examines the social and cultural processes in the Baltic and Eastern European regions, with a particular focus on how cultural references, language, emotional connotations and dislocation influence experiences of belonging.
Silapētere’s exhibitions and programs have been presented at the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, Praha Kunsthalle, Pickle Bar and District in Berlin, James Gallery, CUNY in New York, Den Frie in Copenhagen, PUBLICS in Helsinki, Riga Art Space. In 2022 she co-curated Latvian Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale with the artist duo Skuja Braden. Since 2016 Silapētere has also been curating and managing the LCCA Summer School programmes. Currently, she works on a book titled Portable Landscapes: Latvian Exile Art Histories, to be published by K. Verlag.