About us
Arterritory.com is an art and culture website in Latvian, Russian, and English, which focuses on Baltic, Scandinavian, and Russian art and its manifestations elsewhere in the world.
The website’s target audience are readers interested in contemporary cultural phenomena and who want to make their life exciting and interesting. The creators of Arterritory.com are convinced that art is an open world, one that provides a place not only for professionals, but also for connoisseurs and lovers of art.
Arterritory.com will become your eyes and ears for looking into artists’ studios, listening to their opinions, and documenting their participation in the most important art events. The website is your discussion partner with whom you can exchange opinions about exhibits and art and design events in Riga, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Vilnius, Tallinn, Copenhagen, Moscow, and anywhere else. Arterritory.com is also your calendar of important occasions, where someone has already marked all the “must-see” events. We understand that art today is not a closed space; it interacts and connects with other fields of culture. Precisely for this reason, the website also offers information about cinema, design, fashion, architecture, and books.
Arterritory.com is a meeting place for professionals which not only offers the chance to participate in a dialogue where the conversation partner is ready to listen to harsh criticism, but also a space to get to know one another. Because the reserved nature of Northerners is probably the reason why we get to know our neighbors so slowly, even though we live right next to each other.
The creators of Arterritory.com are passionate professionals in the fields of culture and journalism. Each of us has his or her own list of favorites in art; we often have cardinally different opinions, and come with our own baggage of experiences. A few of us don’t currently reside in the art territory of the Baltics, Russia, and Scandinavia, therefore visitors to the website shouldn’t be surprised to see letters from New York, Melbourne, London, Berlin, Chicago, or any other place in the world. Yet all of us feel an enduring passion for art.
The art and culture website Arterritory.com is developed with the support of the association 'Mākslas platforma'.
Arterritory.com's closest collaboration partner is Anothertravelguide.com, the online magazine for independent travelers.
Editorial staff
Una MeistereDirector, English-language editor / una@arterritory.com
Daiga RudzāteEditor-in-chief / daiga@arterritory.com
Sergej TimofejevRussian-language editor / sergej@arterritory.com
Text authors
Agnese ČivleArt, culture and lifestyle journalist
Alan MooreBritish designer, artist and business innovator, Founder of Beautiful Business
Aleksandra RosaJournalist, film reviewer
Auguste PetreArt theorist and researcher, curator
Elīna NordenArt historian and curator
Francisco Martinez Anthropologist, lecturer at Aalto University
Ilze PoleJournalist, editor-in-chief of airBaltic’sinflight magazine
Karina Krista LikanseText Author
Kirill KobrinAuthor, historian, essayist
Kristīne BudžeDesign and architecture critic, journalist
Lizete RiņķeCopenhagen-based art historian, writer, curator
Magnus BonsArt critic, editor of konsten.net
Maija RudovskaCurator, researcher, art critic
Margarita ZiedaTheatre historian, researcher, critic and journalist, playwright
Natālija JansoneFashion designer
Odrija KalveArt historian and curator
Olga AbramovaArt historian, Moscow-based exhibition reviewer for Arterritory.com
Richard PettiferAustralian writer, director, critic and monologist based in Berlin
Stacey KooselCurator, writer, editor of Estonian Art
Tomass PārupsArt journalist and curator
Vilnis VējšArt critic, journalist