About us

Arterritory is an independent art and culture platform exploring how art and ideas reflect and shape societal change across the Baltic and Nordic region. Through interviews, essays, and long-form dialogue, it connects regional perspectives with global conversations on culture, knowledge, and perception.

Published in Latvian and English since 2011, Arterritory brings together artists, thinkers, curators, and cultural practitioners, creating a space for exchange across disciplines and viewpoints. Rooted in Northern Europe and internationally oriented, the platform approaches culture not only as a field of artistic production but as a way of understanding the world.

Dialogue is at the core of Arterritory’s approach, a method of inquiry grounded in listening, curiosity, and openness. Through conversations, the platform explores artistic thought, cultural processes, and the ideas shaping contemporary society, tracing how creative practices respond to social, technological, ecological, and philosophical questions.

Over more than a decade, Arterritory has built an extensive archive of conversations and reflections, forming a living record of how artists and thinkers have imagined the present and the future. This ongoing dialogue reflects a belief that culture is a field of knowledge evolving through interpretation and shared experience.

Alongside artistic and intellectual discourse, Arterritory also explores questions of perception, inner experience, and ways of knowing that shape how we understand reality, reflecting an openness to culture as a space where material, social, and experiential perspectives meet.

Guided by editorial independence and intellectual curiosity, the platform creates a meeting place where professionals and audiences alike can encounter new ideas, engage in meaningful conversations, and discover connections across cultural contexts.

Through dialogue and reflection, Arterritory continues to explore the evolving landscape of contemporary culture and its role in shaping our shared future.

Arterritory.com is developed with the support of the association 'Mākslas platforma'.

 

Editorial staff

Una MeistereEditor-in-Chief / una@arterritory.com

Sergej TimofejevEditor / sergej@arterritory.com

Text authors

Daiga RudzāteCo-founder / daiga@arterritory.com

Agnese ČivleArt, culture and lifestyle journalist

Agnese PundiņaArt historian

Ainārs Ērglis

Alan MooreBritish designer, artist and business innovator, Founder of Beautiful Business

Aleksandra RosaJournalist, film reviewer

Aliaksandra Tucha

Anastasia Blohina

Anda Kļaviņa

Anna IltnereArt journalist

Anna Volkova

Arterritory.com

Asnāte SīmaneArt historian

Auguste PetreArt theorist and researcher, curator

Brigita ReinertBrigita Reinert is an art critic and curator who is currently working as the Head of Contemporary Art Collection at the Art Museum of Estonia. She has an educational background in philosophy, art history and theory; and she has acquired a master’s degree at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She has specialized experience in organising art and cultural events, curating and coordinating exhibitions, editing texts, and coordinating cultural communication.

Denis Maksimov

Dita RietumaFilm historian, critic, director of the Latvian National Film Centre, lecturer at Riga Stradiņš University

Dmitry Komm

Ekaterina Vikulina

Elīna Lazareva

Elīna NordenVisual arts and lifestyle journalist

Elīna ZuzāneArt journalist

Elnara Taidre

Eriks Apalais

Francisco Martinez Anthropologist, lecturer at Aalto University

Gosh Snobo

Haralds Matulis

Helēna Demakova

Helmuts CauneJournalist

Ieva Lejasmeijere

Ieva Raudsepa

Igors Gubenko

Ilze PoleJournalist, editor-in-chief of airBaltic’sinflight magazine

Irēna Bužinska

Irene GludowaczVienna-based curator; foundation, museum and corporate communications expert; writer; co-author of A Passion for Art: Art Collectors and Their Houses (2005) and Global Art (2009)

Ivars DrulleSculptor

Jana Kukaine

Jānis Jankevics

Jānis Šipkēvics

Jānis Taurens

Jurriaan Benschop

Karina Krista LikanseText Author

Kārlis Vērpe

Kaspars Eihmanis

Kirill KobrinAuthor, historian, essayist

Kristīne BudžeDesign and architecture critic, journalist

Lena Konushikhina

Līna Birzaka-PriekuleArt historian, curator of exhibitions at the Latvian National Museum of Art and for the VV Foundation

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

Megija Milberga

Monta Kaiva Konovalova

Natalie Weis

Natālija JansoneFashion designer

Nikita Kadan

Odrija KalveArt historian and curator

Olga AbramovaArt historian, Moscow-based exhibition reviewer for Arterritory.com

Paula LūseCulture journalist

Paula Veidenbauma

Pavel Gerasimenko

Photo: Ansis Starks

Photo: Kristīne Madjare

Rasa Jansone, Art.D

Richard PettiferAustralian writer, director, critic and monologist based in Berlin

Santa MeikulaneDesigner

Sergei KhachaturovArt critic, theorist, curator, art historian, a freelance writer for Arterritory.com

Sofija Kozlova

Sofija Šellare

Stacey KooselCurator, writer, editor of Estonian Art

Tanel VeenreEstonian jewellery artist and designer of a brand by his own name.

Tīna Pētersone

Tomass PārupsArt journalist and curator

Valentin Dyakonov

Valery Ledenev

Vents Vīnbergs

Vera Otdelnova

Vika SmirnovaArt historian, film critic, writes about the parallels and contrasts between cinema and contemporary art

Viktor Misiano

Vilnis VējšArt critic, journalist

Vladimirs Svetlovs

Weronika TrojanskaPolish-born artist and writer

Zaiga GaileArchitect

Žanete Liekīte

Žanete Skarule

Zane Onckule