Andra Silapētere
Andra Silapētere is a curator and researcher at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA). Her field of research and interests include topics of exile, migration, identity and belonging. In 2022 she co-curated with Solvita Krese the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Recent exhibitions include “All’s Good Between Us” at Dzirnavu 60A (2024), “Marketa Magidova. My Sweet Inedible Planet” Kunsthalle Praha (2023), and “Portable Landscapes” (2018–2020), which examined Latvian art in the context of migration though a series of exhibitions presented at the Latvian National Museum of Art (2018), District Berlin (2019) and James Gallery, CUNY in New York (2019).
Other notable curatorial endeavors include “Not Yet Written Stories: Women Artists’ Archives” (2020-2022), a research and exhibition project focusing on the art of woman artists in East-Central Europe. In 2025, Andra Silapētere is the curator of “Other Passengers,” the first institutional exhibition of Viktor Timofeev, opening in March 2025 at the Latvian National Museum of Art.
"The RAD 2024 experience was a truly enriching and useful resource for research. I really appreciate the efforts made by the RAD team to make the Romanian art scene and its actors known through the RAD Curatorial Program. Such an initiative is not only an opportunity for discovery for art professionals. It also highlights a much-needed emancipatory aspect in the context of different European regions and their art processes and the way how we are used to reading them, de-stigmatizing the recent past and its impact on contemporary events." Andra Silapētere - RAD Curatorial 2024