STIPENDIATI - Latvijas Mākslas akadēmija

Maija Rudovska
1982
EDUCATION
2009–2011 Art Academy of Latvia (AAL), Doctoral studies 2009–2010 Postgraduate studies in CuratorLab programme
Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden 2006–200 MA degree in Art History and
Theory, AAL 2002–2006 BA degree in Art History and Theory, AAL 2000–2007 BA degree in teaching Visual Art and
History of Culture, University of Latvia, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2011 Curator of the film Expired Monument. Story of a Culture Palace. Collaboration with the artist Shirin Sabahi (Iran)
2010 Co-curating the project Regard: Subversive Actions in Normative Space at Studio, Moderna Museet (Stockholm)
within the framework of the studies in CuratorLab programme at Konstfack, Stockholm 2009 Co-curating the exhibition
of Latvian conceptual artist Hardijs Lediņš’s architectural work (1980s/1990s), collaboration with the Latvian Centre
for Contemporary Art (LCCA) 2008-2009 Curator of the Baltic contemporary art curatorial group HOLE curators 2008
Curator for the lecture of the economist Don Thompson (author of the book The $12 million Stuffed Shark) in the Riga
Art Space (Riga, Latvia) 2008 Curator of the solo exhibition Contact Person of the young Latvian painter Daiga Krūze
in the Riga Art Space (Riga, Latvia) 2007–2009 Curator of the young Latvian artists (Daiga Krūze, Auce Biele, Inga Meldere
and others) 2006–2007 Co-curator of the project/exhibition Candy Bomber/The Young in Latvian painting at the
Latvian National Museum of Art, exhibition hall Arsenāls 2006 Co-curator of the project/exhibition Female Friendship,
exhibited at the Latvian National Museum of Art, exhibition hall Arsenāls.
PUBLICATIONS
Magazines Photo journal “Fotokvartals” (www.fotokvartals.lv), visual arts journal “Studija” (www.studija.lv), academic
issue “Art History and Theory”, Estonian art magazine “Epifanio” (www.epifanio.eu); Newspaper “Diena”, “Kultūras Forums”,
“Neatkarīgā Rīta Avīze” etc; 2011 article When Stalinism Met Modernism.
The Early projects of the Latvian architect Marta Sta,na. Report at the conference
Modernization (Dec 3–4 2010), National Art Gallery, Vilnius 2011 article Curating
as a Methodological Tool // Every Curator’s Handbook, edited by the Perfect
Art Institution, Stockholm) 2010 article The Stalinist Architecture of Public
Buildings in the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic during the 1940s and 1950s,
magazine “Art Theory and History” 2010 article Not-Yet as Equal for the project
Mesmeric Monuments of the German artist Liane Lang, gallery Supernova,
Riga, Latvia 2009 book Latvian Academy of Sciences Building, published by the
Institute of Art History, Latvia 2008 article for the exhibition catalogue Contact
Person of the Latvian painter Daiga Krūze, Riga, Latvia 2007 conception and
article for the exhibition catalogue Candy Bomber/The Young in Latvian painting,
Riga, Latvia 2007 article in the catalogue for the exhibition Riga Review of
young Latvian conceptual artists in gallery NGBK, Berlin, Germany 2007 article
in the catalogue for the lithography exhibition Akmens atmiņa, Riga, Latvia