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  1. The program is led by artists Kaspars Groševs and Evita Vasiļjeva from Riga, featuring guest lecturers artist Anastasija Sasunova (Vilnius) and curator Siim Perni (Tallinn) among other surprise guests. These professionals will guide participants through gesture networking and the development of experimental assignments surrounded by good vibes.

     

    More guest teachers will be announced shortly before the school.

     

     

  2. Kaspars Groševs, artist, curator, writer, musician

     

    With his figurative painting style Kaspars is a well known figure in the Riga scene capturing not only the post-soviet doomy gloom of Riga, the grungy scenes of his own youth but also his own distinct aesthetics. Despite and even due to the subversive nature of his practice, Groševs is an acknowledged guest lecturer at the Art Academy of Latvia and his ‘Blue Lagoon House’ – a collaboration with Evita Vasiļjeva for the Cēsis Art Festival – was a finalist for the Purvītis Prize 2023. His background in experimental electronic music can be enjoyed as a performative moment on its own or as a complement to his visual expression through somber, resonating soundscapes. As the founder and curator of 427 Gallery he exemplifies what it means to live for and through artistic expression despite the reoccurring struggles this implies.

     

    Website https://kasprsg.com/

    Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kasprsg

    Gallery 427 website https://fourtoseven.info/



     

  3. Evita Vasiļjeva, artist

     

    Evita Vasiļjeva is a Latvian artist and educator based between Riga and Paris. Growing up in post-Soviet Latvia, Vasiļjeva was influenced by the visual and sonic remnants of the Soviet Era: architecture, abandoned landscapes and buildings, traces of a society rebuilding atop its unresolved past.

     

    She works across outdoor sculpture, site-specific installations, and sensory environments, transforming abandoned materials and the ruins of unfinished structures into new forms with reimagined functions. Through the repurposing and manipulation of diverse materials, Vasiļjeva creates a distinctive aesthetic language that weaves together architecture, memory, dreaming, and physical space. Her practice explores tensions between structure and fragmentation, history and future, decay and renewal, while investigating how we experience time as both memory and lived presence.

    Her works often touch on themes of anxiety and control, yet they propose delicate possibilities for coexistence. While conceptually rigorous, they resist a singular narrative, inviting viewers to engage with their own emotions, histories, and interpretations.

     

    Her work has been featured in major international contexts, including the Lyon Biennial (2022), the 14th Baltic Triennial (2021), and the upcoming Manifesta 16 (2026). Other notable exhibitions include Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (2020), Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2019), Tallinn City Gallery (2018), and Fondation Ricard, Paris (2018). In 2022, Vasiļjeva was nominated for the 8th Purvītis Prize for outstanding achievement in Latvian visual art.

     

    https://evitavasiljeva.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/evitavasiljeva/

     

     

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  5. Siim Preiman, curator

    Siim Preiman is an Estonian curator and critic whose practice consistently examines the intersection of personal ethics, environmental urgency, and the systemic structures of the contemporary art world. Based in Tallinn, where he serves as a curator at the Tallinn Art Hall, Preiman has developed a rigorous methodology that treats the exhibition as a site of both ecological and social accountability. His work is characterized by a commitment to sustainability that goes beyond thematic exploration, often manifesting in strict production constraints designed to minimize the carbon footprint of his projects.

    This ethos was most notably articulated in the 2019 exhibition The Art of Being Good, which challenged the institutional status quo by banning the purchase of new materials and restricting transport logistics. Preiman continues to explore these themes of resistance and resilience through diverse platforms, including the mobile gallery project galerii galerii and the contemporary art radio program Vitamin K. Whether investigating the semiotics of mass consumption through the lens of the T-shirt or navigating the digital shift of collaborative practices during global crises, Preiman’s curatorial voice remains a vital link between Baltic regional narratives and global discourse on the future of institutional responsibility.

    https://www.kunstihoone.ee/en/

  6. Anastasia Sosunova, artist

     

    Anastasia Sosunova is a visual artist based in Vilnius. Her practice, combining video, installation, printmaking, and sculpture, focuses on the connections between faith and visual culture in a secular society, exploring manifestations of magical thinking and the rituals of community mobilization. Her works address themes related to the coexistence of seemingly incompatible value systems, tracing alternative forms of contemporary folklore. Sosunova graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts with a BA in Graphic Arts and an MA in Sculpture. Throughout the last few years, her work has been featured in various group shows and biennials, such as the 15th Gwangju Biennale, the 17th Lyon Biennale, Centre Pompidou, KIASMA, Salzburger Kunstverein and Palais de Tokyo. Her solo and duo exhibitions have been presented in international institutions such as Fondazione ICA Milano, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, KOHTA Kunsthalle, Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius and Cell Project Space in London.

     

    www.anastasiasosunova.com

    https://www.instagram.com/anastasia.sosunova/