Portfolio Review 2024

Experienced arthistorian with history of working in museums, institutions and the media. Skilled in Nonprofit organizations, curatorial projects, Photography, Art Education and Lecturing. Former exhibition producer and guest curator of Fotografiska, The Swedish Museum of Photography for Stockholm, Tallinn and New York., Director General of the National Museum and Prince Eugens Waldmarsudde, (Stockholm, Sweden), Director of Kiasma – Finnish National Gallery of Contemporary Art and Helsinki Art Museum (Helsinki, Finland) Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art  NIFCA (Sveaborg, Helsinki, Finland)Former Chair of Finnish Fund for Art Exchange FRAME, Arts Council of Finland and Taidehalli Helsinki. Currently working in Hamburg, Germany for a private Art Foundation. 

Arnis Balcus is based in Riga, Latvia. He has BA in Communication Studies from University of Latvia and MA in Photographic Studies from University of Westminster. In most of his photographic work he examines Latvian identity, historical taboos and social-political agendas. Has had exhibitions in UK, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Russia and eslewhere. In 2016 Victory Park has been published as photobook by Brave Books, Berlin. Balcus is also the editor-in-chief of FK Magazine and the director of Riga Photomonth.

Jhoane Baterna-Pateña

Photographer & Research Editor, European Photography, Berlin, Germany

From 1995-2018 she worked as chief curator at the Olomouc Museum of Art, and since 2007 as curator of the photography collection there. She has contributed to the publication of monographs on Czech photographers by Miloslav Stibor (2007), Jaroslav Vávra (2011), Vladimír Birgus (2015), Jindřich Štreit (2016) and Milena Valušková (2017). She is the author of the publication Civilized Illusions, in which she professionally processed the photographic collection of the Olomouc Museum of Art, which represents the development of Czech photography from the 19th to the 21st century. She cooperates with Palacký University in Olomouc (edition Olomouc Photographers, since 2021), and teaches externally at the Institute of Creative Photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Opava. She also participated in the preparation of the exhibition Czech Photography of the 20th Century (Bonn 2009). Together with photographer Jindřich Štreit, she realized a series of exhibitions of emerging photographers in the Archdiocesan Museum in Olomouc between 2009 and 2017. In 2015 and 2016, she and Prof. V. Birgus prepared overview publications and exhibitions on Czech modern photography for foreign audiences (A Century of Avant-garde and off-guard Photography, Landskrona 2015; At first sight. A selection of Czech photography from the 20th and 21st centuries, Olomouc 2016, highlights the most important manifestations of Czech photography in the past hundred years.

Maira Dudareva, the head of the Latvian Museum of Photography has a long running experience in photography. She worked as head of photo archive of the main Latvian daily newspaper “Diena” (1999 – 2008), head of “Diena” photo department (1998 – 1999) and as photoreporter for several Latvian newspapers (1992 – 1998). She did her MA research on digital photography indexation at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Latvia, where she is currently enrolled in the doctoral program (from 2006). She is a curator, lecturer in Latvia Culture College and portfolio reviewer at Kaunas Photo Star festival in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,2016 in Bratislava Photo Month 2012, in ISSP 2012, 2013, 2014, Riga Photo Month 2014, and Lodz  Fotofestiwal, Photolux Festival 2015.

Polish visual artist, photographer, educator, curator, juror of international photography competitions, reviewer of portfolio reviews, co-founder and Artistic Director of the International Photography Festival Białystok INTERPHOTO – one of the most prestigious photography festivals in Central and Eastern Europe.  Author of texts on photography. He graduated with honours from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan in photography. He received his doctorate at the National Film School in Łódź and his habilitation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. He is currently a professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. Grzegorz Jarmocewicz’s works have been exhibited in such cities as Berlin, Brescia, Bratislava, Budapest, Dresden, Yokohama, Kaunas, Poznań, Rotterdam, Tallinn, Warsaw and Wrocław. The artist’s works can be found in private collections and at the District Museum in Suwałki, CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Museo Ken Damy di Fotografia Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy, CCA Suwałki, CLZ Białystok.

Mindaugas Kavaliauskas is a curator, consultant, publisher of photography.

In 2004 he founded KAUNAS PHOTO festival, that he has been directing ever since. KAUNAS PHOTO is the longest-running art photography festival in the Baltic states. It focuses on works of emerging photographers and great underexposed photography from all over the world. Mindaugas Kavaliauskas was studying photography and art history in Kaunas Vytautas Magnus Universty, Ecole Nationale de la Photographie in Arles, ENSB-A Paris and UNIL Lausanne. He was interning at the Rencontres d’Arles and Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne. Consequently, he has been teaching photography in different universities, schools and consulting artists. He has curated a number of exhibitions in photographic festivals, galleries, museums in Europe and Asia – Pacific region: FotoGrafia (Rome), Fotohonap (Budapest), Photaumnales (Beauvais, France), Photodemer (Vannes, France), Backlight (Tampere, Finland), Pingyao and Lishui festivals (China), Auckland festival of photography (New Zealand) etc. He reviews portfolios in festivals, such as Fotofest (Houston), Atlanta Celebrates Photography (USA), Photo Espana (Madrid), Eyes-On (Vienna), numerous others, including the domestic portfolio review competition KAUNAS PHOTO STAR.

Andrei Liankevich is the founder of “Month of Photography in Minsk” photo-festival (Belarus), publisher and one of most influential artists of Belarus. 

He has presented his photographic oeuvre in more than 60 exhibitions in Europe, Asia, and the USA: in Noorderlicht Gallery,  at MOMA in Vienna or National gallery in Warsaw.

Thomas Licek – born 1963 in Vienna/Austria. Working as an Art Manager since 1991, he is organizing the Month of Photography in Vienna since its first edition in 2004. Since 2008 Managing Director of Eyes On – Month of Photography Vienna, he is currently also Associate of the European Month of Photography (EMOP), an international network including festivals in Athens, Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Luxembourg, Paris, and Vienna.

Andreas Müller-Pohle – Artist & Publisher, European Photography, Berlin, Germany 

Valentyn Odnoviun is a visual artist, curator and photography theorist based in Vilnius, Lithuania. He holds Master’s degrees in Photography and Media Arts as well as Art History and Theory from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. In addition to his artistic and academic pursuits, he is a lecturer at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Currently, Odnoviun is working on a dissertation at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute on the topic of intersections in the context of Eastern European photographic culture in the second half of the 20th century.

Member of the Association of Lithuanian Art Photographers “Artist Creator” status granted by the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania. 2024-2026 – Expert in the field of photography at the Lithuanian Council for Culture

www.odnoviun.com

Arianna Rinaldo – is a freelance professional working with photography at a wide range. She is the artistic director of Cortona On The Move, the international photo festival in Tuscany, Italy. For almost 10 years she was also the director of the “OjodePez” magazine, the only documentary photography quarterly published in Spain. Arianna’s relationship with photography started in 1998 in New York, as the Archive Director at Magnum Photos. Back in Italy in 2001, as the picture editor for “Colors” magazine, she commissioned international photographers to produce documentary projects all over the world.

Based in Milan from 2004 to 2011, Arianna has been a freelance curator for exhibits and a photo consultant for various publications, among which 4 years at D, the weekend supplement of one of Italy’s main daily, “La Repubblica”. She is a regular participant in portfolio reviews and jury panels worldwide, as well as a speaker and teacher. She was part of the World Press Photo jury in 2009, Fotopres, Spain in 2012 and has been a Photolucida Critical Mass juror since 2009.

Based in Barcelona since 2012, Arianna continues to develop photography projects at an international level. Besides her curatorial activity, Arianna is engaged in  leading workshops and masterclasses, as well as private mentorship sessions. She is in the selection committee of various institutions among which the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, the British Journal of Photography “Ones to Watch”, and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. 

Gabriella Uhl, PhD (1970), art historian, curator, she is currently the docent of Art History and Theory department Kaposvár University and Metropolitan University, Budapest. Graduated first history and literature (MA) at the Eötvös Lóránd University (Budapest), writing her PhD thesis about the Central-European baroque literature. She studied economic at the Corvinus (Economical and Technical) University (Budapest) and graduated art history (MA) at Eötvös Lóránd University (Budapest). She worked as a researcher at the Hungarian Academy of Science afterwards as a chief curator of the Ernst Museum. She spent four years in Baltic States working as a correspondent of the leading Hungarian art magazines and research fellow of the Contemporary Art Center (Tallinn, Riga).  She was the curator  of the Hungarian Pavilion at Venice Biennale, 2013.  She is working as an art critic and free-lance curator as well. She was the curator of Month of Photography (Budapest, Hungary) in 2012 and 2014, and the member of the curatorial board of European Month of Photography.  As a researcher she specialized on the marginal and gypsy art. She is the author of many publications on the contemporary Hungarian and Central-European art scene.